[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The BB gun is the worst invention ever. It’s small enough to be considered a toy but big/powerful enough to really cause property damage and/or hurt someone. I was never allowed to have a BB gun as a kid, my parents would only allow me to own a real gun (after a lot of training and showing that I was mature enough to handle it).

[clintonh8r]

I got my Red Ryder in 1954, age 8. It came complete with a note on gun safety from Santa Claus!

[Idaho_Cowboy]

The BB gun is the worst invention ever. It’s small enough to be considered a toy but big/powerful enough to really cause property damage and/or hurt someone. I was never allowed to have a BB gun as a kid, my parents would only allow me to own a real gun (after a lot of training and showing that I was mature enough to handle it).

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You have a good point. I figure you might as well just start kids with a .22. Even with a BB gun the same rules of safety and responsibility apply and need to be followed and a .22 is a lot more fun and used to be cheap enough to shoot.

[smokingfrog]

[Seven plus One]

I read your post and something hit me. I didn't know exactly what, so I kept my mouth shut. It eventually registered in my pea brain what you really meant.

Rewrite 'the BB gun' with 'the firearm', and everything makes sense. Worst invention ever. I've heard that before, I think. I did not see any BB gun mishaps here, these clips all looked, to me at least, like firearms in the hands of people who think that they're toys.