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Hamish Macdonell: Toy pistols and Action Man dolls are not going to create a generation of gun-obsessives

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Published Date: 07 April 2009
OUR five-year-old son has a voice that can carry the length of the country's biggest supermarkets. He demonstrated this perfectly the other day when he saw one of the many publicity stands promoting Quantum of Solace on DVD.
"Look, Daddy, James Bond. That's what you want to be," he said, and I swear I could hear laughter rolling down at me all the way from the fish counter beyond aisle 21.

"No, I don't want to 'be' James Bond, I want to 'see' James Bond," I stressed,...



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  • Last Updated: 06 April 2009 9:56 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Hamish Macdonell
 
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Dippy,

Lothian 07/04/2009 15:58:34
I played with toy guns and my Action Man as a child. It didn't do me any harm. When I grew up I was able to shoot with real guns at the age of 14 years.

I still love guns, and I think they should be legalised in the UK. We should all have a right to keep and bear arms for our own self-defence.
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Observer,,

Glasgow 07/04/2009 23:17:37
I would rather arm bears.
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Observer,,

Glasgow 07/04/2009 23:18:46
I wonder if they have prised the gun out of Chuck Heston's cold dead hand yet ?
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Observer,,

Glasgow 07/04/2009 23:35:07
I had a Barbie doll, I didn't grow up to look like her, I'm a brunette. Startlingly similar in every other way. Should I ask for my money back ? It seems to be the same principle that is applied to Action Men. It's plsh, playing with a doll when you're a wee boy doesn't turn you into a psychopath.

 

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