Lego toys are getting more violent, study says

When my son was six-years-old, my wife and I refused to give him toy guns. If one arrived as a gift, it was swiftly spirited away – so quickly that he barely noticed its absence. Instead, we bought him Legos... and he promptly built a gun. I was reminded of this as I read over a fascinating new study from New Zealand’s HIT Lab at the University of Canterbury, which asks a simple question: Have Lego Products Become More Violent? The short answer is, according to this study’s fin