>>Well, I DID take depression medicine years ago in college, which means that I am destined to commit some sort of heinous act, but no, I said pheasants.
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>>>pheasants ?!? Oh, thank god, I thought you said peasants ...
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>>>>>severe prison terms when firearms are accessible to minors
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>>>>I don't agree with that. When I was 14 and got home from school, I would grab my dad's 12 gauge and walk a few fencelines looking for pheasants before either of them were home.
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>I always had you down for a pheasant plucker.
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>But seriously, you used to go out shooting, without your parents' concent or knowledge, at 14?
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>Now THERE IS a reason to deny adolescents the gun. Now YOU may have been very mature and responsible, but I wouldn't trust half of the snot-nosed, baseball cap wearing, feckless ne'er-do-wells I see shuffling the streets, with a popgun, never mind a shotgun!

Yes, with their consent, and they encouragement. I was trained properly at a young age to use a firearm, and it has never been anything that has been worried about in our household.