#55- When you've only been alive for three years, probably only one of those consciously, to be so well accustomed to guns and knives being used in a violent manner as to be able to create a scenario using them in that manner from scratch in your imagination and reproduce the image with enough detail to be able to recognize them despite the fact that you hardly have motor skills yet, yeah, you would be kind of an outlier. It's not about how complicated guns are to draw, its about the child only having been consciously alive for a year and violence already being so prevalent in it's life that that's what it recreates in its imagination. I'm an early childhood education major, and I have worked in preschool classrooms with children of this age. If they typically draw anything other than scribbles, its scribbles that they say are family members, a house, and pets. That is what takes up their consciousness at that age, the things that are directly around them. There must be a lot of violence directly around that child for him to draw that. Even if it is just television, at that age, that's horridly inappropriate.

I work with 5 and 6 year olds and so far I haven't experienced that. I'll admit that this story is pretty hilarious. Things like this happen a lot. I remember being in 1st grade and drawing a bunch of "battle" scenes with my friends in art class. It didn't mean I was being abused. It was the "cool" thing to do. And now I have a bachelors and masters degree. I came out as a pretty normal person.

#44- "may have Asperger's or signs of sociopathy"? What, like those are even close to equivalent? An obsession with violence does not indicate Asperger's. It does indicate some problems (and potential abuse) in the child's life, and this should be reported to the head of the school, and perhaps to CPS, depending on what the head says. But Asperger's? Read the DSM IV.

lindsay: Again, when I was a kid, all the toys I ever played with were killing each other all the time. It isn't that I had problems with accepting death as wrong - I remember being really disgusted when I saw someone playing Super Bomberman because of the explodey animation when you blew someone up, for instance. I just didn't connect my |_ and the . . . going at a o/ to mean "this is a living person getting shot and dying because their internal organs are pulverized". It's disconnected from reality in the same way that when you watch Die Hard and a police car flips over and explodes, you think it's awesome and/or funny. If anything, it shows the kid has a more active imagination than all of the kids you've apparently ever worked with.

Anyone actually noticed that this scene is also repeated on Family Guy. Stewie draws Lois being killed, nothing of Peter. I think the OP has been watching too much TV and wants attention. I hardly think this is real, however, if it for some reason is, I'm not going to believe it :)

Also: http://www.moonbattery.com/arab-kid-gun.JPG

Little kids go through a phase where all they think about is violence and killing things, probably because their parents let them watch violent movies or TV shows. I'd talk to the kid's parents, but don't take it so seriously.

School psychologist?

#54 Ok internet police. And for the record I've never typed LAWLZ until this response. You motherfuckers are WAY too serious or WAY too lonely. Yes I admit it was a fail (excuse or not) and ya, I always lol at people who say "First!!" that's why I did it. Morons. Back to the topic, that kid needs counseling and someone should find out what kind of environment he is in that fosters such imagery.

WhySoSassy, i don't know who you THINK i am, but i'm a new user so that "you would have noticed by now" is kind of stupid. also, just because you think desperate housewives is a "stupid show" doesn't mean this wasn't on it two weeks ago, good try though, asshat. so we've got tv shows today showing this shit all the time, and we're jumping straight to the kid being abused? alrighty. seems likely. i mean...seeing the school counselor to get it across to this kid that that's not okay school behavior, yeah sure. but assuming s/he's being abused? come on. that's a reach.