When your little boy gets into guns...

...learn to die. Dramatically. Beautifully. With spewing blood and claw hands and death gurgles. Learn from the master of dramatic deaths:

There's plenty of research that shows boys (on the whole) naturally gravitate to fighting games. To boys, a stick is always a sword or a gun. There's tons of debate about what to do.

A lesson from improv: say yes to the game. Learn to die. Die big.

THEN, teach your kid how to die. It's lame if he always has a force field or something. It only gets really fun once you can kill your son.