Sounds like you and I think the same.

>I agree. My son is 6, and got him a BB gun. We go out back & shoot it ono weekends. I am constantly reminding him of where he's point it, and that there are BB's in it. I tell him repeatedly that it's not a toy. Ho goes to the trap range with me, and he points out to me that everyone has their gun point up where it should be. Because I have exposed him to it early on, and spent time teaching him about them, he doesn't feel the need to go over to the gun racks & 'play' with them. I'm confident that when he grows up, he will have repsect for guns because of what I taught him now.
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>You can teach fear, or you can taker away the curiosity and have respect.
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>>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.
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>>>>>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.