The culture teaches all kinds of things about guns - most of them wrong. I would prefer my son learned guns to be what they are rather than have opinions formed by those who fear them or those who treat them a magical things. A child who has been trained is not the child who doesn't know the gun is loaded - and who knows to treat *all* guns as loaded.
>>>I think that you should teach him that
no good can come from the guns , and divert his attention to something
>>>creative and more suitable for his age. Perhaps you could also visit child psyhologist and figure out from where 10 year old
>>>gets urge to shoot the gun as a hobbie.
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>>>There is about one million better things to do in life, then shoot the gun.
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>>You are over the top. Why try to force your values onto others? Just because somebody shoots a gun doesn't me they intend to kill or cause harm.
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>I think at 10 years old, the concept of using a gun is outragous. What about "Oh, I thought there were no bullets in the chamber, I'm sorry".
>I aggree (as a Canadian that understands the "the right to bear arms" was misintepreted from the get go) there are far more contructive things to teach a 10 year old, than to shoot a gun.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
