We have five kids three now out of the house. All of them know how to shoot and how to do so responsibly.
But remember this at all times, guns are not safe, they are not meant to be. Never, for a second, let yourself or any one in your household, think they are.
At the same time, having the right and the capability and the will to defend one's self is, next to faith in God, the bedrock American tradition. It is what these terrorists here operating on our soil are ultimately going to run up against if they keep pusing it. It is also what our own control freeks and gun grabbers will one day run up against if they keep trying to disarm us and keep us from defending ourselves.
God bless.