All of that went out the window this week, however, when Daddy returned with a foam pellet handgun for Number One. It starts off with a foam pellet launcher, and before you know it, he’s asking for a samurai sword for Christmas and is suddenly better armed than the guards. After all, toy guns are better than no guns at all. Hand any five-year-old a toy gun, and suddenly they don’t have a gun, they have a backstory. Give a child a dinosaur, and he might roar at a coat rack; give a child a toy gun, and he becomes a villain of Gotham City proportions.

Source: Irish Examiner February 24, 2026 06:30 UTC