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Originally Posted by jostju

As a Canadian and Aussie ex-pat, I'm fully onboard with not including guns with action figures that can be found in children's toy departments (with an opposite opinion for comic and specialty shops), "accuracy" be damned. The US has this fascination with guns that, in its navel-gazing culture, has the rest of us shaking our goddamn head every time you hear "thoughts and prayers" for some kid who just got gunned down by another kid who figured out his dad's lock to his AR that he bought for "protection" in advance of a zombie apocalypse or, y'know, handy for an insurrection.

If toy makers don't make toy guns that look like guns anymore I'm totally fine with not having 1:12 replicas in the toy aisles, and just buy my own 3rd party — McFarlane making their own weapons pack is a fantastic idea, and a great suggestion!

I mean, in that case, they also shouldn't be marketing figures of mentally ill homicidal maniacs who want to get revenge on the world that "wronged them" to kids, either.

Because those same crazy ass kids don't idolize the Joker because he uses guns - they idolize him because he's just as deranged as they are. Most Batman villains read like a fucking laundry list of your typical school shooter's thoughts.

Kids seemed fine with toy guns and didn't become homicidal maniacs until Colombine, so I think it's a bit strange to blame toys with guns that have been around decades prior for school shootings.