iPods, Guns as the Norm in American Street Wear - Get Used To It

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Imagine a child barely tall enough to reach the top drawer of the bedroom dresser. Imagine the child on tip-toes opening the drawer because the forbidden object is hidden there. The naughty thrill of reaching under the socks, the shock of actually touching the thing, finding it cold, as if on ice. Such is my memory of furtive encounters with my father's handgun. At the time, Dad was an FBI agent. Where... [Boston Globe, Column, via gunpolicy.org ]

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[FunkyD]

Dillweed writes for the Globe. 'Nuff said.

That and the lib last resort is "Think of the children."

My kids aren't strong enough to rack the slide of my XD yet, so even if they found it, it wouldn't do them much good.

[jfdavis58]

Remove the 'curiosity', teach the kid how to use it, when to use it, how to care for it, what it does. Include the kid in trips to the range and serious family discussions. Answer their questions without flinching or embarrassment.

It's really surprising how well children turn-out when you take the time to raise them.

[yeahYeah]

Originally Posted by jfdavis58

Remove the 'curiosity', teach the kid how to use it, when to use it, how to care for it, what it does. Include the kid in trips to the range and serious family discussions. Answer their questions without flinching or embarrassment.

It's really surprising how well children turn-out when you take the time to raise them.

EXACTLY. curious kids get in trouble. the guns are bad. it's people/kids who do not know how to use them or have no respect for them that are bad.

this writer is a typical leftist... using the kids as pawns to push an emotional agenda.

[NC Dave]

Originally Posted by FunkyD

My kids aren't strong enough to rack the slide of my XD yet, so even if they found it, it wouldn't do them much good.

Assuming that they are not infants, are you really willing to bet their lives on that? No chance at all that a slightly stronger kid might ever be around? At they strong enough to squeeze the trigger?

Sorry, but as much as I love guns and as hard as I fight for our rights, this statement makes me shiver.

[kubmiester]

Kids will learn about guns one of two ways: 1) With adult supervision, being taught the safety rules and how to handle it, and at a safe place, or, 2) in a friends back yard without adult supervision, not knowing the safety rules or how to handle it, nor in a safe place.

[yeahYeah]

i was taught how to handle guns by my uncle who was a korean war vet. i started with old bb guns and worked my way up.

[tialloydragon]

my father removed this "mystique" about guns when I was three years old. He brought out his PPK/s, unloaded it, made it safe, and handed it to me. I gave it a good look, examined it, and handed it back. He said "you can see it whenever you want, as long as you ask me first." After that he started me off early with a pellet gun in the garage, graduated up to a 22 rifle, and continued from there. All the while he was teaching me the safe way to handle firearms.

They should start them early, remove the "mystique" from the firearm, and teach them to treat the firearm as a tool to be respected rather than as a forbidden object from which the little prick needs to be protected.

[Ishpeck]

I love how it's a foregone conclusion that the parent will be irresponsible in how they store the weapon.

[robinsre]

Originally Posted by Ishpeck

I love how it's a foregone conclusion that the parent will be irresponsible in how they store the weapon.

I love how it's foregone conclusion that every household in America has unsupervised, undisciplined, nasty little rugrats running around failing to respect personal property.