Ask a few boxers who have had their careers ended because of retina damage and risk of blindness.
I learned to shoot when I was 5, a 22 single shot Remington and the target was a 22 cartridge box. Couldn’t go into the woods to hunt till I could hit the cartridge box every shot at about 30 yards. Started hunting with a .410 single shot when I was 8.
Had a Daisy BB gun when I was around 7 or 8 I guess, forgot it at a roadside rest area one day and my father refused to go back and get it. He was a bastard like that a lot...Let’s see, that would be around 1962 or 1963 or so...
What I’ve always wanted is a Benjamin pump pellet rifle. Shot one a friend had in the late 60’s, loved it. Quiet, accurate, almost as much power as a .22, dependable as they get. Can’t find them any more. A friend in the mid 80’s had a Benjamin pistol, only one I ever saw. That was one little gem of a pistol. We used it for snakes when we went fishing, not illegal to carry in a boat.