Comments on: Lego teaches children how to play with guns

By: AussieBoy

AussieBoy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:22:47 +0000

Howdy, your all looking at the wrong end of the stick, the lego is being made this way because of demand, if you wanna fight the issue have a go at the movies, parenting attitudes and dispicable lack of gun control in your country. Maybe if the kids weren’t used to hearing about shootings in schools, on the street and every other place in your country then they wouldn’t be drawn to the concept of guns. Fight the addiction, not the dealers.

By: logan

logan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:51:13 +0000

I personally think your pretty right about that much. when I found this article i was actually look at pictures to build a gun out of lego…. when i was young i would always find something to make a gun out of with some imagination. i dont think lego is really that bad its mostly the media. the media puts these thing that are completely not true. like 2012 1999 and many more apocoliptic things. lego isnt really to blame its the media and lego is making what sells

By: ninjun09

ninjun09 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:04:56 +0000

He’s nuts. Lego isn’t telling us “Oh, children, you should do as the minifigs and carry guns around all day long.” Don’t you say: “Oh, but they’re hinting it.”. It’s plastic, for Pete’s sake! In Lego comics, the guns shoot pops or at the least, simply zap you. If the guy gets hit, not a drop of blood or even molten plastic. Who cares if Bionicles have Skydak Launchers? If Lego started putting blood and gore in there, I would start worrying, but please! RELAX!!!!!!!

By: BrickArms

BrickArms — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:05:29 +0000

Jimmy, Lego has been edorsing guns ever since the first Wild West set was sold, way back in the 90’s. Do you remember their carbine and 6-shot revolver? They are still making and selling them today. Batman sets contain a replica Tommy Gun and Uzi facsimile, and all of the new Agents line, as well as all Lego Star Wars set containing Clone Troopers, contain minifig-scale weapons of various types. Even the latest Lego Indiana Jones sets have soldiers wielding modern-ish rifles and pistols. Those sets sell very well, and so far, Lego has shown no reluctance to include weapons in all of them.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:55:28 +0000

Dude, what the heck is your problem? Take a look at LEGO’s “guns”. They one’s that you’ve shown us resemble two rods glued together with a pathetic square for a trigger. Seriously, does that piece of junk look even remotely like a HK G36? No. M4 Carbine? No. AK-47? No. FAMAS G2? No. It does not look anything like a real gun. They’re just toys, for crying out loud. If LEGO started manufacturing replicas, I’d probably agree with you, but they seem content with using funny little pieces. Please reconsider your position in this. It’s ridiculous to think that LEGO promotes weapons and war.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:48:26 +0000

It’s a real pathetic stretch to blame the worlds problems on LEGO guns. Look at parenting skills. Try another outlet next time. It’s really sad that someone attacks what they do not know. LEGO is a great mind builder. Look at the test and studies about it. If you don’t like the gun don’t buy the product or take the gun out. Build a bridge and get over it.

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By: Viaggio

Viaggio — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:59:16 +0000

I am seven years old and I think kids should do whatever they want. You maybe think I am crazy, but I have played with my friend Evan and I have always played with toy guns. I even like a song that Johny Cash did of he shot a man in Reno, although his mother told him not to.

Well, I can’t believe that you would be saying that. I am seven and since you put a castle lego set, I wanted to say I have one and it includes weapons and I don’t really like what you’re saying. It’s funny, but say hello to my little friend because I’ve watched Scar Face about nine bizillion times so I think that is just crazy stuff because guns and other weapons don’t be in trouble.

Now, let me tell you a story that my mother read. It was about a man who thought that another man riding in a truck with the Confederate flag was riding around and the other man thought it was the sign of the Dukes of Hazzard and he only heard of the Civil War one time. Now that is bad, but for people who want to defend themselves or even lego kits like bionics who like you said didn’t have girlfriends, so I am all right.

Bye.

My name is Viaggio, like I have told you before. The End.

By: Mobius 118

Mobius 118 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:27:21 +0000

I was raised around guns, violence, and whatnot. Movies and videogames were relatively mild, compared to my imagination with GI Joes and Jurassic Park dinosaurs. I never acted out against the other kids, but man…did I have a strong imagination. The old sandbox was a warzone.

Then I was taught how to shoot. At age 6 I started shooting BB guns under the strict tutelage of my grandfather, then graduated to .22’s, then on up it was .30-30s and 12 gauges.

Not once have I been told that fighting would solve an issue right off the bat. Diplomacy, talking, and peaceful resolution was preferred over fighting, with a violent resolution the very last, last resort.

Rifle discipline has enhanced my respect for life. So easily can something be snuffed, with the pull of a trigger. What I see is that parents don’t instill that kind of thought into the kids learning how to shoot. Bang, and he’s dead. No more bad guy. But did they ever think about the ‘bad’ guys family?

By: Tim Hogan

Tim Hogan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:23:01 +0000

Erich, my son was never given what we called “war toys.”

The next thing I saw was the little guy had chewed his PBJ sandwich into a gun shape and was shooting “bad guys.”

Later, Ben was given a cap pistol as a present for his birthday. We talked about the safe use of weapons, and then he shot me dead, about 4,362 times and counting. Ben loves the “agent’ Legos, now that he’s bored with the Mars Mission, knights, Indiana Jones and Batman series.

I have been beaten again and again as the “bad guy” and play inventively with Ben to resolve the conflicts peaceably. There are now “tickle rays,” “tickle spiders” and a plethora of alternatives which incapacitate the “bad guys” and don’t involve killing. Ben then gives the bad guys lectures on being good and we invite them over for dinner. However, Ben warns the now “good guys” that he’s watching and his super powers will allow him to capture them again if they are bad. The second time, they go to jail where it’s ugly and stinks like daddy’s feet after a workout.

I was in the Scouts when young and we took riflery and marksmanship as a course and for a merit badge. I don’t oppose my children learning responsible use of firearms. I don’t keep firearms in the house but, have access through relatives who shoot; one of which was an alternate to the US Olympic team. WE haven’t fully decided if they’ll learn but, mayber soon.