(an aside: Gertrude, PLEASE speak English. You are only demonstrating your low level of communications "skills" when you post in sophomoric "text-talk".)
Now, the toys. As a kid, I had a bow and arrow - and the arrows had sharp metal tips. Yes, more than once they ended up in an unintended location, but never in a person or animal. I also had a CO2 powered 22 caliber pellet gun which was capable of killing small animals with a single shot. (I know this, because my neighbor unintentionally trapped a skunk and I had to dispose of it.) This, too, fired hundreds of lead pellets without accident. Then there was the 22 caliber rifle that I got for Christmas at age 10 and was allowed to use in our wooded range without supervision. Strangely, again no accidents.
For the ultimate in "would you let your kids do this?" (and I would, because I've trained them, as I was trained.) Remember lead soldiers? Remember lead type for newspapers? (No? Then I'm older than you.) We used to go to the local paper and haul home as much old type as we could carry - usually we'd score about 50 pounds of it. Then it was off to one of the kid's house to use the old saucepan reserved for that purpose on the open-flame gas stove; melt a few pounds of lead and pour it into the soldier molds. You're just not going to believe this, but 4 or 5 boys between 11 and 14 could make hundreds of soldiers from molten lead (several hundred degrees!) and not suffer a single burn among them. (We also knew enough to ventilate the kitchen and not sniff the molten lead.) How did we do it?!? We used FREAKIN' COMMON SENSE!
(an aside: Gertrude, PLEASE speak English. You are only demonstrating your low level of communications "skills" when you post in sophomoric "text-talk".)
Now, the toys. As a kid, I had a bow and arrow - and the arrows had sharp metal tips. Yes, more than once they ended up in an unintended location, but never in a person or animal. I also had a CO2 powered 22 caliber pellet gun which was capable of killing small animals with a single shot. (I know this, because my neighbor unintentionally trapped a skunk and I had to dispose of it.) This, too, fired hundreds of lead pellets without accident. Then there was the 22 caliber rifle that I got for Christmas at age 10 and was allowed to use in our wooded range without supervision. Strangely, again no accidents.
For the ultimate in "would you let your kids do this?" (and I would, because I've trained them, as I was trained.) Remember lead soldiers? Remember lead type for newspapers? (No? Then I'm older than you.) We used to go to the local paper and haul home as much old type as we could carry - usually we'd score about 50 pounds of it. Then it was off to one of the kid's house to use the old saucepan reserved for that purpose on the open-flame gas stove; melt a few pounds of lead and pour it into the soldier molds. You're just not going to believe this, but 4 or 5 boys between 11 and 14 could make hundreds of soldiers from molten lead (several hundred degrees!) and not suffer a single burn among them. (We also knew enough to ventilate the kitchen and not sniff the molten lead.) How did we do it?!? We used FREAKIN' COMMON SENSE!