It's definitely the context of the play.
I'm not overly happy with mine having guns but even without them my son has pretended to shot things. You don't been a gun to play gun games. We've never actively bought anything gun related until he was turning 7 when he got a nerf gun.
He runs around playing with it but we will intervene if he starts saying about wanting to kill someone and we talk to him about it.
In my experience being very anti something can back fire in a big way so I would rather he played pretend guns now than with real guns when he's older. I still don't really like it but I accept it's a part of life.
I also agree a lot with what marinewag says
I'm not overly happy with mine having guns but even without them my son has pretended to shot things. You don't been a gun to play gun games. We've never actively bought anything gun related until he was turning 7 when he got a nerf gun.
He runs around playing with it but we will intervene if he starts saying about wanting to kill someone and we talk to him about it.
In my experience being very anti something can back fire in a big way so I would rather he played pretend guns now than with real guns when he's older. I still don't really like it but I accept it's a part of life.
I also agree a lot with what marinewag says
