Guns aren’t toys, and people who think playing jokes with guns is funny will get bit someday.
I still laugh about a family story that taught a valuable lesson.
Shortly after my grandparents got married, my grandfather came home early from work one day and decided to sneak into the house and scare my grandmother. Well, he succeded because my grandmother heard him open the back door and she hid in the closet - with her pistol (never found out what kind).
Grandpa looked around the house and not finding her in the main rooms, decided to check the closet. By this time he was feeling kinda guilty, thinking he might have really scared her too much, so he was going to immediately apologize as soon as he found her. When he opened the closet door, he found himself staring down the barrel of her pistol as he heard the hammer fall with a loud click.
Fortunately, the gun misfired, otherwise I wouldn't be able to tell this story because my mother would not have been born.
Needless to say, he never tried to scare her again, but my grandmother did learn a few new words that day, LOL.