as a child, my parents wouldn't allow me to play with toy guns because they told me they "didn't believe in guns". i took that to mean they did not believe guns exhisted, like when one says one doesn't believe in ghosts. i thought them very silly.
A childhood belief about toys

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that guerillas were monkeys with guns.— Dave D
- i used to think guns shot poison bulletsAnon
- From a TV news program about freedom fighters, I though that `Gorrillas` could use guns.— adrian
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- When I was a child I thought that dogs can see ghosts but now I think that they can sense disaster— Steven Altamirano