gives son gun on the 8th birthday
Honestly that’s not bad if you teach proper safety. I would stick with a Bebe gun and keep it locked up outside of the range.
Teach them young and they will grow up knowing safety.
Yeah, how about no?
The reality in the US is that guns are everywhere. People should be exposed to them early in a controlled environment. The kids who play with guns they find in a closet are usually the kids for whom guns are more mysterious.
Giving a kid their own gun (obviously they shouldn’t have access to it without their parents) is a great way to demystify them. If they can ask their parents to show them a gun anytime then there’s nothing special about them and the kids don’t go hunting for them when parents aren’t around.
And every adult should know how to safely handle a firearm even if they have no interest in owning one. Guns exist and you may need to secure one some day.
Guess I should be glad I don’t live in that hellhole of a messed up country then. I wholeheartedly disagree with everything you said except the first sentence, so maybe we should just be glad we live on opposite sites of the planet.
That’s the thing. You don’t live here, so you can afford to be entirely ignorant about firearm safety.
If you lived here and thought nobody should learn about gun safety I’d call you wildly irresponsible.
What a bunch of crap, the kids who play with guns they find in a closet are usually the kids who find guns in a closet. simple as that.
So many sentences and anecdotes to describe “gun safety”. You know what gun safety really is? Do not fucking keep a gun in a closet.
And if it is not you but grandpa who keeps them, Keep the children away from him. The sooner you all stop normalising this bullshit and do something about it, the sooner America will start moving away from schools shootings etc.
You can’t be with your kid at all times in all places, and you can’t always control their environment. Teaching them to be responsible around firearms in a place where they may come across them is important.
Simply telling them they’re bad is no different than abstainance-only sex education.
IDK about where the person you are replying to is from, but I see it as a viable strategy in the US. There are too many stories of children playing with guns and killing someone. Teaching firearm safety and demystifying them is like teaching sex ed.
Not having firearms everywhere is a better answer, but I can only control so much.
I can only control so much.
Not from the US, I have plenty of deadly stuff at home: cleaning products, solvents, medicines, sharps, electric stuff. The solution to that is fucking look after your children or don’t have any, not give them a fucking gun when they are eight ffs.
Is it not possible to look after your child while teaching them about gun safety or something?
