Aydin Tiryaki Date: October 29, 2006

“A hooligan celebrating the National Team’s victory with his pistol caused the death of a ten-year-old child.” “They fired into the air at the wedding, and a five-year-old child watching the wedding from the balcony was shot and killed.”

We do not want to hear news like this. However, the male segment of our society is “obsessed with guns”. Both those who need a firearm and those who do not, want to own one. Society is under the threat of licensed or unlicensed firearms. One of the biggest problems of our country is the disease of acquiring guns. It is imperative that this disease is treated.

The treatment for this gun obsession begins in childhood. Families gift toy guns to their “boys” and thereby infect them with this disease themselves. When this child grows up, the time it takes for him to acquire a real gun is not delayed at all, and he immediately buys one. In a moment of anger, a moment of joy, or during a celebration, this gun rains down stray bullets.

Let us not buy toy guns for our children; let us not do evil to them and to society.

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