I’m 66 in August, I CCW. Hubby is 74 on the 19th, we have a 12 gauge with a pistol grip he likes to use for home defense.
We own a gun safe, as we have great grands. And like our meds guns are locked up when they come visit.
Idiots forget Meds are just as dangerous for a child to get into as finding a gun lying around. BUT no one considers that big butcher block full of knives sitting on most kitchen counters. And since hubby keeps them sharpened, they are sharp.
NEVER MENTION THE WORD DEPRESSION when you go to the doctor now that 0’care has charge of all your medical records. Or you might just lose your guns, permit or no permit.
My GGGGGgrandfather was 70 years old when he marched 40 miles to Bunker Hill to fight with his musket alongside his wounded son who was bayoneted by the British. My GGGGG grandfather shot and killed the British bayoneter but his son died.
My mother still shot a .22 when she was 94.
My great grandmother always kept a shotgun full of rocksalt next to her chair on the porch til she was 92.
After the Battle of Lexington, all the old men lined the road ahead of the British who were were retreating back to Boston and harassed them as they went by, killing many redcoats
Cold dead hands sums it up for me.
I've worked in a multi stage retirement center from houses to the nursing home itself and the apartments and assisted living building in between those. The risk wasn't firearms. The risk was fire. I think in the five years I worked there one gun was taken and that's because the man had a temper and not so good cognitive abilities. I was a maintenance man and I turned off the breaker on many a range. Falls and fires were the two realistic dangers were made priority.
Now they want to talk about when to take firearms? LOL I saw a woman about 85 years old and about 4'10" take on an entire floor staff with her cane and she was winning LOL.
I'm good on my firearms but my driving may be something I have to surrender at any point my condition worsens. I've know that for 20 years and I'm 56 now. It's not so much age as it is ability. As long as my seizures stay in my neck and shoulder blades I'm good to drive with docs blessings.
When Dad had his brain surgery, he told me to go home and pack up all the guns.
I cried that day. Dad taught me to shoot, but he will never be able to shoot with me again. Might break open the aneurysm again. Still, he loves to go with me to the range and watch.