Kids and Guns

[Darkwolf71]

Um, you were the one who started going general by talking about how kids (in general) were less fascinated by things that were not forbidden.

And that I will stand by, c'mon tell me that you didn't tend to do exactly what your parents told you not to. Stereotype? Yes it is, but a fairly accurate one.

If that, and the following personal anecdote backing it up were not intended to be a suggestion about how it this should be generally effective... well, I apologize, but it still looks like a reasonable reading of what you were saying.

I can only comment on what did work for me... and pretty much all of my friends. Which is, at least in part a product of the environment in which we grew up.

Do I think it's a good idea to educate children rather than fill them with fear? I do. That doesn't mean I want it mandated that all kids be 'indoctrinated' to my way of thinking, unlike other posters in thread.

All the precautions in the world will not guarentee that your kids will not end up around guns at some point. In a bad scenario, I would prefer my kids to react with calmly and rationally rather than with fear, a reaction that can only be achieved through familiarity.

 

[Bullgrit]

I didn't mean to post something that would get into politics. Guns are such a natural part of my life (albeit a small and remote part, nowadays) that I never really think of them as a topic of political argument.

It's sort of like asking about a good barbecue recipe and then having the discussion go into animal rights, or something.

BTW, nice little site you have there, Bullgrit.

Thanks a lot.

Bullgrit
Total Bullgrit

 

[CleverNickName]

It's sort of like asking about a good barbecue recipe and then having the discussion go into animal rights, or something.

LOL yeah, that happens. The internet can really bring out the crazy in people.

 

[Atanatotatos]

LOL yeah, that happens. The internet can really bring out the crazy in people.

Yeah, we're all crazy...

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Yeah, we're all crazy...

I am not... Muhahahah... Muhahahaha. Düdeldei, düdeldei, dumm-di-dum-di-dum...

 

[Darkwolf71]

Yeah, we're all crazy...

I concur.



You're all crazy.

 

[Bloosquig]

I am planning on buying several guns in the very near future and I also plan on having my wife go to a co-workers gun class (she's a licensed federal arms instructor) and teaching my son the importance and responsibility that goes with living around weapons.

He's only 1 and a 1/2 right now but he can watch the way I handle the weapons and when he gets old enough and can understand the concept of them I'll let him handle them while I clean them. When as he gets older and more cognizant the rules I'll take him to the range and let him fire off rounds.

If he wants to look at it I'll get it out of the safe and let him handle it under close supervision. If I let him get it out anytime he likes he'll be much less likely to go for it when no one's around and he might save some other kid's life when he goes to THEIR house and his friend pulls out a loaded weapon and doesn't understand that it's not a toy.

 

[Bullgrit]

Bloosquig, looking at your avatar, aren't you too young to have a child of your own?

Bullgrit