Gun and weapon fixation

I am currently supporting a 13 year old child in school who has a fixation with weapons, particularly guns. How do I distract him away from this as he is disrupting the class as well as himself? If I ask him to stop he apologises but will continue within a few minutes. Do we ignore or try to divert?

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  • Any obsession he has will disrupt the class. If he was fascinated with quantum physics instead of guns he'd be interjecting about schrodinger's cat instead of rifling and calibers. You just have to learn to work with the obsession.

    Now if the fact that his interest is guns specifically is disturbing you then I wouldn't worry about that unless he has a history of violent or reckless behaviour. In fact it's posable to make a very good career out of a technical interest in guns. Gunsmiths are highly sought after specialists craftsmen who make and maintain specialist fire arms (often antiques, often for sale overseas).

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  • Any obsession he has will disrupt the class. If he was fascinated with quantum physics instead of guns he'd be interjecting about schrodinger's cat instead of rifling and calibers. You just have to learn to work with the obsession.

    Now if the fact that his interest is guns specifically is disturbing you then I wouldn't worry about that unless he has a history of violent or reckless behaviour. In fact it's posable to make a very good career out of a technical interest in guns. Gunsmiths are highly sought after specialists craftsmen who make and maintain specialist fire arms (often antiques, often for sale overseas).

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