Should I be allowed to develop a game in school that contains guns

If you really want to develop a game like that, the school has no right to stop you from developing a game with guns/violence (even with blood and adult themes) on your own time. However, that being said, the school has every right to stop you from developing such a game on their campus. You say that you'd like to develop a game with violence (and guns associated with that as well, judging by your title), but that you'd like to only go as far as to not show "extremes" like bloodshed and "adult themes." The problem, however, is that those "extremes" that you list are results of said violence and guns. By showing your peers this game that you've developed, specifically without the "extremes," you're presenting an incorrect image of gun culture. It's unrealistic to simply detach the blood and adult themes from the guns themselves because, in real life, those "extremes" are almost always paired with or a result of gun culture. The school can't allow you to show this to their students because by allowing you to develop a game such as the one you are describing, the school is essentially condoning what you're developing, and without the bloodshed and adult themes, what you're presenting is a potentially harmful false image of our gun culture in America. You're acting as if this stigma around a gun in your school is a main reason as to why you cannot develop a game with guns at your school, but you don't have the same idea as your school administrators' do when they hear the word, "gun." I'm sure you're aware of the Columbine High School shooting from 1999, where a student enacted a full-on massacre. The nation was and still is traumatized by this tragedy and many school administrators are scrambling to find methods to stop such an event from happening again. However, your physics teacher hears the word "gun" in a whole different context, just as you do. S/he sees it as an easy vassal to help explain recoil and other forces to his students. If your physics teacher told your school that she taught his/her students about the recoil of a gun, the school is not going to burn him/her at the stake because s/he dared to mention the word, "gun." Same with your history teacher if s/he were to tell the school that s/he showed WWII soldiers shooting at each other with machine guns. It's all about context. Neither of those examples that I've listed is promoting gun culture or school shootings or anything like that. Your teachers mentioned guns because it is integrated in the school curriculum; it's not a taboo discussion about guns "behind closed classroom doors," as you seem to think, and that's why no one's complaining about it. Also, Canada is relaxing about referencing guns in their school system because they haven't have school shootings, not the other way around. If your friend stopped being lax about guns in his Canadian school, it wouldn't increase the chances of violence. In fact, I'd bet nothing would happen if you guys had open discussions about guns at your own school. However, if you're presenting your own views about guns through your unrealistic game for class, that's when the school should stop it. Your "gun talk" is dangerously inaccurate and underhanded and rightfully shouldn't be incorporated into your game at school.