Would you get a toy predator drone for your child?

That thing looks horribly cheap, so no.
And in any case, I would only buy plastic models that you have to assemble with glue and then have to paint yourself (airfix/revell), because the building and painting is where all the fun is.

We played with those little green army men when I was a kid for hours at a time. We planned strategies, bombed each others men, wiped out their tanks. We did not grow up to kill anyone because of this. Just as buying me a whole little kitchen outfit did not make me a cook.
Why not buy it if you want it for your kid?

I wouldn’t have a problem with it, any more than if the child wanted any other model airplane or toy airplane.

Not a chance in hell, cheap crap, that random piece of black plastic on the tailwing screams choking hazard…3yrs and up!!
The comments were clearly wrote by performing chimps, sarcastic ones at that.

Nope.

But I’d buy a real one. I like practical gifts.

The reviews are fantastic.

I’d go halfsies with @zensky on a real one, while we can get in on the ground floor, so to speak, and before the things are regulated beyond our chance to get one. Can we get extra Hellfire™ missiles? And can we get a better price break if we buy a cruise missile or two at the same time?

How cheap, it doesn’t even come with brown people to strike.

Also, if I wanted to buy my kid a predator, I would buy a Pope action figure.

I would get it but how do you explain to a child what it does without a feeling of shame.

@flutherother I’m with you. GA. I feel bad everytime a see a report of a drone strike. Even worse when I hear of civilian causualties. No way I could get a kid one of theses.

@ragingloli, sometimes I give your wicked answers a GA before I can stop myself.

I had toy guns and army stuff when I was a kid, but it’s a different world today. Children are bombarded daily by images of terror, war and crime in movies, TV, the Internet. Why not give them toys that are fun and educational rather than a celebratory of the darker side of life?

If I sound stuffy and old fasioned, so be it.

No – but then I didn’t get guns for them either.

I would only consider whether the child wanted one. I do not believe war toys cause war or cause children to turn violent.

Did you read the reviews?
“Nothing teaches my child about how to murder enemy combatants silently and invisibly from the sky with no risk better than this RQ-1 Predator. I believe that teaching our children to be familiar with a silent, faceless killing machine is the way to educate our children in the importance that is war.”
“After all you can’t spell slaughter without laughter!”

@blueiiznh That was hysterically funny.

By the way – I also grew up with little plastic soldiers and GI JOEs. This had no impact on me whatsoever. I became a Commando and virtual killing machine – but that had nothing to do with the toys.

I guess, if they really wanted it. I don’t see how buying one war toy is any different from the other shitload of war toys that exist, and have done so forever.

OK, I am dying. The comments are hilarious.

And no, I wouldn’t buy it. All violent toys follow the Darkover Compact – Anyone who wishes to kill must be at equal risk of being killed themselves. No ranged weapons.