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Question of the Week: Would You Buy Toy Guns as Gifts?

In the wake of Newtown and other mass shootings, do you think it's appropriate to give children toy guns as gifts?

In the last few years, toy guns have seen a significant growth in sales, according to a report in The Huffington Post.

But the recent school shooting in Connecticut "is going to really make parents closely monitor what their kids are playing with,” Jim Silver, editor in chief of Time to Play Magazine, said in the article.

Do you think it's appropriate to give toy guns to children as gifts? Has the incident in Connectiticut changed your mind? Tell us in the comments!

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