Exactly. My step-dad was givin’ me grief about taking my 11-year-old son to the range. He asked me, “When would an 11-year-old boy ever need to know how to shoot a Glock 19?”
Being the smart @ss I am, I started with the Zombie apocalypse and moved on to alien invaders. How do you answer such an uninformed question?
I teach my kids to respect the weapons in my house. It’s not what they’re prepared for that I worry about - it’s what I can’t foresee.
I taught my boy at about 12.
When I was a kid I was raised to be scared of a piece of metal.
It was illogical.
Then at 21 I was taught that it is just a tool.
You control it, but you must respect it too.
You ever see a kid poke his eye out with a screwdriver?
Kids are pretty smart if we don’t teach them to be stupid. LOL
I wasn’t allowed to ride motorcycles as a kid either LOL
Then you turn 16 and they let you run around in a 5000 lb car. LOL
BTW
God Bless you for allowing your child to grow responsibly rather than trying to keep him a baby into adulthood.
I think a lot of adults in thew world today never got to stretch their wings as kids and were taught to be baby’s.
Many of them are now 60 year old teachers and hand wringing professors that vote D.
Dad taught me to shoot as a young boy, and I had a Savage .22/.410 over-and-under and a .30-30 in my closet. I left them alone, precisely because I knew what they could do - I had developed a healthy fear of them.
The mystique was gone, and I was better for it.