9 years old, over at my friend’s house, his parents were out back in the yard.
My friend “want to see my dad’s rifle?”
My other friend says sure, i follow.
Go to his parents closet, in the back is a bolt action hunting rifle. My friend picks it up and starts to point it.
I say “let me see that”. Proceed to point it at the ground, open the chamber and make sure it was clear, then comment on how cool it was and pass it back.
Seemed common sense to me, but a lot of kids just don’t know how to treat them.
Teaching your kids gun safety is like teaching them how to swim. You may never plan for them to be around guns, you may live in the middle of nebraska and never plan to go near water, but a little timeI spent teaching them can save lives.
So you have a story how some unsupervised, nine year old kids could just grab a firearm from a closet and you want to sell this as an argument about how your society’s approach to handling guns is reasonable?
No. I want to say that teaching your kids how to safely handle a situation is good. Same way you teach them not to play in the road or go near the water without a life vest
First of all, that’s not what your previous comment was about. You said people could do whatever they want with their kids and they certainly can’t.
Nonetheless: Second, gun safety isn’t essential if there are no guns around. “But there are guns all over the USA!” Yes, which is one of the several reasons why I stay the fuck away from that shithole country.
Third, I sure hope that in a lot of countries, laws very well include regulations from which age onwards people are allowed to handle firearms, so yes, this topic is in fact covered.
The reality in the US is that guns are everywhere. People should be exposed to them early in a controlled environment. The kids who play with guns they find in a closet are usually the kids for whom guns are more mysterious.
Giving a kid their own gun (obviously they shouldn’t have access to it without their parents) is a great way to demystify them. If they can ask their parents to show them a gun anytime then there’s nothing special about them and the kids don’t go hunting for them when parents aren’t around.
And every adult should know how to safely handle a firearm even if they have no interest in owning one. Guns exist and you may need to secure one some day.
Guess I should be glad I don’t live in that hellhole of a messed up country then. I wholeheartedly disagree with everything you said except the first sentence, so maybe we should just be glad we live on opposite sites of the planet.
Yeah, how about no?
Be me.
9 years old, over at my friend’s house, his parents were out back in the yard.
My friend “want to see my dad’s rifle?”
My other friend says sure, i follow.
Go to his parents closet, in the back is a bolt action hunting rifle. My friend picks it up and starts to point it.
I say “let me see that”. Proceed to point it at the ground, open the chamber and make sure it was clear, then comment on how cool it was and pass it back.
Seemed common sense to me, but a lot of kids just don’t know how to treat them.
Teaching your kids gun safety is like teaching them how to swim. You may never plan for them to be around guns, you may live in the middle of nebraska and never plan to go near water, but a little timeI spent teaching them can save lives.
So you have a story how some unsupervised, nine year old kids could just grab a firearm from a closet and you want to sell this as an argument about how your society’s approach to handling guns is reasonable?
No. I want to say that teaching your kids how to safely handle a situation is good. Same way you teach them not to play in the road or go near the water without a life vest
You do know that water is just part of the environment but guns aren’t, right?
You do what you want with your own kids.
You do know that laws are made specifically to limit what you are allowed to do to other people?
Well yes, but that doesn’t cover essential things like gun safety
First of all, that’s not what your previous comment was about. You said people could do whatever they want with their kids and they certainly can’t.
Nonetheless: Second, gun safety isn’t essential if there are no guns around. “But there are guns all over the USA!” Yes, which is one of the several reasons why I stay the fuck away from that shithole country.
Third, I sure hope that in a lot of countries, laws very well include regulations from which age onwards people are allowed to handle firearms, so yes, this topic is in fact covered.
The reality in the US is that guns are everywhere. People should be exposed to them early in a controlled environment. The kids who play with guns they find in a closet are usually the kids for whom guns are more mysterious.
Giving a kid their own gun (obviously they shouldn’t have access to it without their parents) is a great way to demystify them. If they can ask their parents to show them a gun anytime then there’s nothing special about them and the kids don’t go hunting for them when parents aren’t around.
And every adult should know how to safely handle a firearm even if they have no interest in owning one. Guns exist and you may need to secure one some day.
Guess I should be glad I don’t live in that hellhole of a messed up country then. I wholeheartedly disagree with everything you said except the first sentence, so maybe we should just be glad we live on opposite sites of the planet.
That’s the thing. You don’t live here, so you can afford to be entirely ignorant about firearm safety.
If you lived here and thought nobody should learn about gun safety I’d call you wildly irresponsible.
Or maybe, just maybe, you should try and change the place you live in if it requires kids to be taught about gun safety.