Total bullshit.
A complete denial and deflection from other, more serious lapses in parenting.
Denial.
Denial.
We raised three children, currently very independent professional and successful sober adults. Not a snowflake among them. But excellent hand eye coordination and reactions among them all.
That would include the most successful of the bunch, a daughter, who not only owned several water "guns" (that dreaded word again) a Red Ryder bb rifle and pistol, and another pistol which fired plastic "bullets" for indoor use.
And not a single anger-issues loser or mass murderer among them.
Only one son owns a firearm, which he mastered for a few years, in the sport of recreational shooting competition.
Parental, serious introspection is a sorely missed and lost parental skill... eschewed by the clueless ignorant.
I grew up with just about every type of “cap” pistol ever made or sold, got my first .22 rifle when I was 7 years old, shot everything from squirrels to moose, caribou, elk, deer, bear, you name it and I have to this day (I’m 4 months short of being 80 years old) NEVER shot anyone. How is that even possible some liberal might ask. Well, up front, I was taught from an early age the difference between toys and real “tools” meaning guns. My dad and mother BOTH hunted wild game and they never shot anyone either BECAUSE they too were taught what REAL guns are for. The problem is liberals need educating and I see that as a VERY DAUNTING task for anyone, the dummies will never understand because they refuse to learn. Personally, I think firearm training SHOULD BE taught in ever school.