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Should kids play with toy guns?

Should kids play with toy guns?

Lunchtime Live · Newstalk

October 23, 202519m 50s

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Parents up and down the country might be starting to pick up the odd thing for their little ones ahead of Christmas.

But, should you reconsider buying a toy gun for your child? Given the unstable times we live in, are we normalizing violence for young people by giving them fake weapons to play with?

Freelance Journalist Niamh O’Reilly has been writing about this in the Irish Independent, and joins Andrea, along with Stephanie Rohen from the Newstalk Newsroom, Siobhan O’Neill White from Mams.ie and Lisa O’Sullivan Shaw.