A family member has more firearms than most small town police departments, and his sons wonder why guns are even necessary. I never would have expected the local schools to instill that attitude in his kids!!!
I've often wondered how the "apple sometimes does fall far from the tree" in certain situations. My best guess to your family member's example is that the sons somehow consider their very own father to be uncool and unhip based on the "lessons" repetitiously beaten into their young skulls for 180 days per academic year. Parents have to spend almost every other waking moment ensuring their kids aren't dangerously being morphed into something else...
I would think that women would be among those leading the charge into making certain that boys remained boys. I'm not even a parent and I recognize there is a significant problem with regard to feminized boys who have lost their bearing. It seems to have reached a critical level in the past decade or so.
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