[riverrunner]

By the time I was 12 I had shot thousands of rounds of 22rf hundreds of rounds of shotgun. Who knows how many pounds of BB’s from BB guns. Shot many pistols and some high power rifles.

By the time I was 15, make that thousands of rounds of shotgun, many more thousands of rounds of 22 Hundreds of highpower rifle lots of pistol ammo. Was reloading all my center fire rifle ammo and most of my shot gun ammo.

Owned my own rifles, shotgun and pistol very well knew how to properly handle how my firearms taught others how to also.

Never ever came close to shooting any body.

Not teaching children how to properly and safely handle firearms is one of the worse things a parent can do.

[TXnMA]

May I?

Not teaching children how to properly and safely handle firearms is one of the most demonstrably criminal things a parent can do.

IMHO, the bleeding heart libtards who keep the NRA's excellent "Eddie Eagle" minimum basic gun safety program

If you see a gun:

STOP!
Don't Touch.
Leave the Area.
Tell an Adult.

out of public schools should be given irrevocable life imprisonment any time a child under their tutelage misuses a firearm.

[GOPJ]

I also believe in teaching children how to handle a gun. Owned my first gun when I was five - my father used Christmas money given to 'the kids' to buy a gun and had to explain to 'Mom' that it was really for us. Hunting and target practice became a part of life for a couple of years - and yeah my parents loved each other dearly until cancer and death parted them... but Dad had it right on this issue.

That said, I believe the reason liberals stopped pushing gun control is because they know the issue doesn't work for them. They'll still push to take away our guns - but it won't be part of any political platform. And articles like this would NEVER have been written by a liberal 10 years ago...