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.
Agreed.