-Terry T
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What a bullshit law! You don't teach your children to respect firearms by hiding everything about them from your kids. By hiding them, all you're doing is stoking their curiosity, and without proper training all that does is create an accident or incident waiting to happen.
I was 7 years old when I took my first NRA sponsored safety/shooting course. Dad had just returned from his first tour in Vietnam and needed some alone time to get "reacquainted" with Mom, so he went down and signed up all 3 of us kids in some sort of class on Wednesday evenings. I went to a shooting class, my sister went to a dance class and my little brother who was only 2, probably went to crayon-eating class - either that or they spiked his bottle and put him to bed.
That was my first safety class. I bet I've gone to a half dozen others before I was 18 because any time a dependent wanted to use the shooting facilities or hunt on a military installation, you had to take that post's Provost Marshall's safety class. It must've worked because I never heard of a minor having a shooting accident of any kind on post.
It was one of the best things my father ever did for me.
Is it time for CA to secede yet?
ReplyDeleteTeach your children how to use all firearms and talk about it often. Then teach your children how to slit a politician's throat while they are sleeping and talk about it often. All preceding the 1st and 2nd amendments and the duty to replace a government that is corrupt. And fuck coward cops!
DeleteI've been pondering for a long time now, why there was never anything written into the Constitution about kicking a state out of the Union. Maybe it does need an update.
DeleteI don't think he was saying, "don't do it", I think he means, "Don't talk about it. "
ReplyDeleteBut if you can't talk about it, how will people know?
DeleteOn line posts about it give libtards the vapors. What I want to know is what it takes to give them a stroke.
DeleteA COVID booster…
DeleteI had training when I was about 7 or 8 back in Wyoming at the local National Guard armory as well as a few other sessions since then at the local ranges. In the 54 yrs since then I have not had any incidents with firearms as safety rules were instilled at such a young age.
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ReplyDeleteIgnorance breeds stupidity.
My kid has been shooting skeet on the school team since he was 11, statistically it is the safest High school sport out there. It is even safer than bowling, when it comes to sports injuries. Safey and responsibility gets drilled into them, there is NO margin of error, and the kids understand and respond and respect that.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad got his first rifle (.22 cal) when he was 4 years old. He was unable to go out shooting by himself until he was 6 years old. I had to wait until I was 13 years old before I got my first
ReplyDeleterifle and shotgun.
I'm grandpa. Thank you for a benchmark to aim for.
DeleteI took the first hunter safety course in Michigan, when I was about 11 or 12. It was taught by a couple of men, one was a pretty decent man, known by everyone in our area, the DNR agent for several counties around.
ReplyDeleteThe thing that stuck with me the most, was when he was explaining how to tell that a gun was unloaded, with a Remington 870. He opened the action, tipped it so we could see the chamber was empty, then closed it. Then he pointed it at the ceiling of the cafeteria of our high school, and pulled the trigger, firing a blank round that inside was pretty loud, and scared the whole bunch of us half to death. But everyone of us learned something from that demonstration.
And we also learned that DNR agents are really cool dudes. The guy stuck around after the class and told us stories about his work, and things that he saw, and crazy people that he came across in his job. He was probably around 60 years old, and we as pre teens thought that he was like Moses come down from the mountain. Probably one of the best classes ever, that I took outside of school. Of course, living in a rural area, all of us loved hunting and fishing.
A class where you actually learned something useful for your later years.
DeleteNot many of those anymore.
Paul J
I was 5 when my Dad took me up to the top of our hollar in Harlan County and taught me how to shoot his bolt action Marlin model 80….I got my Daisy tubular feed BB gun a couple months later at Christmas
ReplyDeleteIt would be amusing if it wasn't child abuse how they want trannies to wave private parts in the kids faces hut they don't want you to teach them safety.
ReplyDeleteMy dad was a WWII combat vet. He took me and my sisters out shooting when I was 10yo for the first time, a Marlin model 96 .22cal. Before the year was out he had us shooting .38cal S&W revolver. By 12yo he had me on .45cal 1911. Great to learn from one of the best. Never a single safety incident from any of us; we went through safety drills regularly. By the time I was in high school I was on a first name basis at the local sheriff's range and the police range (indoor NG armory). We must have reloaded 10-20,000 rounds over the years. Great memories.
ReplyDeletei have owed a .22 since i was 5. i didn't have any shells at the house because when dad took me shooting i would use every one. every kid should own one and know how to use them.
ReplyDeletehell, they taught that in schools at one time in the 50's and 60's. times have changed. they don't teach young men to be men anymore. quite the opposite. it's sad.
i had a pump action daisy. you could see the BB coming out : ) that's where i learned windage and elevation.
"...went to crayon-eating class..."
ReplyDeleteSo, your little brother joined the Marines?
Close. Airborne Ranger.
DeleteNice. I wasn't a Ranger, but went to jump school in 1982. The most fun you'll ever have with your clothes on.
DeleteThat was the same time he went through too, Swede.
DeleteI think I learned to shoot before I learned to swim.
ReplyDeleteMaybe most would agree, it was something that was just taught.