Children playing with toy weapons? This is an alarming image and a powerful statement with your title. They should have fishing nets in their hands or be out playing on the beach in the warm sunshine. It would be so good for them. I wish I could offer them a day on the island, it would change their lives.

If they didn’t have the guns they would play the same games improvising with sticks, it is a great sadness that in parts of the world children are using real guns and it is no longer play.

There should be!! Great image and title!! Says something important about our society!

It’s a really good monochrome Helene. As for playing with guns didn’t kids around you play cops and robbers or similar games when growing up? It’s been going on for ages and ages so stopping it isn’t really an option. I don’t actually like the idea either and if it helps turn kids into killers later on that’s really sad. You get the same sort of toys here and all the toys coming out of films too where kids pretend to shoot eachother but they grow up as normal people. It’s not the toys that are the problem but the environment and the hatred that is the real problem. If only people would learn to live with eachother they would ALL be better off.

They are banned in Australia. Illuminating photo.

Good title for a sad image.

hmmmm very topical great shot

Stunning

I agree with you Helene. Making money out of those sorts of imitation weapons really isn’t acceptable. All we can do is boycott the manufacturers.

woah…deep.