My kids learn on a BB gun at a young age, and a 7MM at an older age. By the time they are teenagers, they have knowledge of a rifle and if you SHOW a kid the damage a gun can do, instead of making it like something in a video game, most of the time they’ll leave it alone.
Let them shoot a tomato in front of a light colored plank. That’ll shock them into reality.
I’d have trusted my teenage son to protect us from 15 years old on.
“...home alone with...”
I know this violates some Cosmic Law of logic.
How many people can you be “alone with” before you’re not “alone” any more?
Guns are like cars. When used responsibly, they are very useful. When operated by criminals, they are a menace.
Everyone who is eligible should buy a gun and learn how to use it. If you already own a gun, buy a couple more. The criminals already have guns.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
You know, if this happened in California, the parents would have been charged with felonies because the children had access to guns (that the children successfully defended themselves would only be seen as evidence that the parents are guilty of improperly storing guns). Then the children would be taken away and given to a lesbian couple.
Man we’ve come a long way in a short time. Only 42 yo I remember growing up in Ohio not far from Ashtabula. Me and all my friends from the age of 12 or 13 all had guns. Rifles, shotguns, and handguns.
We all kept them in our bedrooms along with the ammo, no big deal.
Later during high school many of us drove to school with our hunting rifles and or shotguns hung up in a rack across the back window of a pickup truck parked in the school parking lot. Again, no big deal.
I didn’t know of a school in Ohio that didn’t have a shooting team and gun safety classes were part of gym class.
Now kids are kicked out of school for merely drawing a picture of a gun or wearing a t-shirt that depicts one. Pathetic!
Simple principle involved here. As parents it is our RESPONSIBILITY to teach our children a large variety of things from birth.
Don’t touch the fire, don’t put that small object in your mouth, play politely with your friends, clean your room.... That list is too long to go on but you get the idea. Remember that guy that had the “things I learned in Kindergarten” ideas?
Self defense, home safety and gun usage are also in that list. We have a 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms. That infers that we have a responsibility to teach our children not only the 2nd amendment idealism but the mechanics of how said ideal works. ie: guy breaks in, retrieve gun (which is hopefully loaded but in a safe location), safety off, take out the threat. End of story. Parent did an excellent job. Parent will, in my opinion, probably be well qualified to guide adolescent through the aftermath.
“What happened to keeping the gun separated from the ammunition and separately locked away”?
YOu try to break in to my home and every one of my 15 guns are sitting around loaded and ready go have a go at anyone stupid enough to try.
Unloaded and locked away never accomplished anything.
Teach your kids wife and everyone in the home to properly use them and you will be much safer than if you solely rely on your local police who may just be waiting on the fresh donuts.
Several years ago a group of illegals broke into a house near me, the only one home was a 14 year old girl. Her parents had taught her to use her head and use a firearm. She managed to sneak into her parents bedroom closet with a telephone. Her father’s guns were stored in the back of the walk in closet. She got into the closet, armed herself and called the sheriff. She waited quietly while the illegals ransacked the house and as luck would have it the sheriff’s deputy arrived just as the illegals were approaching the bedroom she was in. This was a country girl and I have no doubt the illegals would have had a nasty surprise if they had managed to get to her hiding spot. I am also glad the deputy managed to get there before she had to, so she wouldn’t have to live with the issues of taking lives. The deputy said when he told the illegals after he arrested them that the girl was armed to the teeth in that closet, they about crapped their pants- they said they had no idea anyone was home.
I can only imagine what the outcome may have been had her parents not taught her about firearms, and about using her head the way she did in this situation. Many of these liberal parents are raising their children to be victims when they refuse to teach them to defend themselves, and teach them that the only way to deal with crime is to call LEO. Thank goodness that girl’s parents had raised her to have a plan, and a backup plan, and to be able to defend herself if needed.
Obviously, the parents did an outstanding job teaching their children to shoot responsibly and accurately. Kudos to them.
But according to the left, criminals are supposed to give homeowners time to get their guns, unlock the ammo box, load and then say “stop or I’ll call my attorney.” Ain’t that how it works?
This is news to me. Who is teaching children such rubbish? Guns ARE an education - primarily in safety. Secondarily, in your chosen application: self-defense, hunting, sporting, what have you. The engineering designed to channel the kinetic energies, and the amounts required - the kind of stuff PhD dissertations are made of.