Kids and guns

[huntmaster]

Fro--thanks for starting this thread--It is great to see some positive thinkers here about educating kids about guns.

I totally agree--an ounce of proper education on this subject=a ton of prevention!!!

My dad took me rabbit hunting starting when I was four, and taught me about guns and how to respect them at a very young age.

Java---three days out of school for deer season?? what a great idea!!!--I'm jealouse!lol

Check this link for more info about proper education for kido's about guns----its the NRA's eddie eagle program.

 

[Train Harder]

I agree with you Fro. If taught how to properly use and respect the power of guns, I believe we'd have less problems with them in the first place.

 

[curling]

Fro,

I agree a 100% on what you said. Also I think Big Cities Suck! People turn into whacos in big cities look at New York they actually voted for Hillary. Whacos.

 

[gwl9dta4]

I grew up in Tennessee and was raised with guns all my life. Some of my earliest memories are of my dad teaching me to shoot. It gave me a healthy respect for them and it was a lot of bonding time with my father. I plan on teaching my kids about guns and taking them shooting on a regular basis.

My girlfriend was raised in San Diego and the only time she was exposed to guns was with gang members and drug dealers. She has friends get shot by other kids. She is opposed to her kids ever learning about or having any kind of access to guns.

I believe that the only way to protect kids from guns is to teach them and familiarize them. If one of my kids's friends ever got a hold of a gun and I wasn't around, I'd rather my kid had been taught the dangers of guns and the respect for them. I feel that by not doing so, the kid would be more likely to play around with guns unsupervised in a dangerous way.

Also, I already own 1 rifle and plan on owning several more. But as soon as a baby enters my house (though probably sooner) I'll have a gun safe where all ammo and guns will be kept.

What do you think?

Wowm finally logic. You have the understanding that it's literally ingnorance that kills and information saves, espacially in this case. We do not need legislation, we need education and responsibility.

 

[bunnymt]

Re: Re: Kids and guns

Wowm finally logic. You have the understanding that it's literally ingnorance that kills and information saves, espacially in this case. We do not need legislation, we need education and responsibility.

Once again, you have taken the words right out of my mouth.

Dont do that again. thank you.

 

[mrbill]

looks like everybody else has already said it all...I agree completely

 

[Summer Bunny]

i totally agree fro....i was raised around guns.....my father having about 15 of them...
its just a matter of the way you teach you kids about them....i have never shot a gun, but i have handled them, learning that from my father.....
just like you i would rather have my son familiar on guns then to have him accidentally fire one at someone not knowing what he was doing...
hell i think if i ever even thought about touching my fathers guns growing up he would have killed me..

 

[frorider6]

My dad was a collector and loved the fully automatic types. That was a lot of fun.

I got my first gun at age 12 as a birthday present. It was a muzzle loader. And it was always locked in a safe. At age 13, I got a single shot bolt action 22. At 14, I got a 44 magnum lever action rifle for the purpose of deer hunting. Although we never went hunting, we spent lots of time bonding while shooting.

 

[huntmaster]

My dad was a collector and loved the fully automatic types. That was a lot of fun.

awesome--I would like to have one eventually--or even shoot one.

 

[frorider6]

awesome--I would like to have one eventually--or even shoot one.

Well, domestic production for civilian use was banned about 1988. Ones already in circulation were legal if you had the proper papers. The value of each gun tripled or quadrupled in value.