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Tennessee: old enough to make assembly line lawn mower parts
Florida: not old enough for social media.
But old enough to have a rifle/shotgun. And not just in Tennessee:
From TN and got my first shotgun for my tenth birthday.
So did I, but we didn't have ammo in the house until I was an adult. Buying a youth-model gun and training kids to be safe with firearms early can be a responsible thing.
Nobody at the gun range is scarier than the adult that's never shot before who went and bought a pistol and a box of bullets. Last time I was at the range they were using freaking Airpods as their earpro.
Everyone is super impressed by your story, it just seems like you don't understand that your anecdote is meaningless in the face of actual statistical data.
Edit: your downvotes have convinced me to disregard everything we know about statistics in order to favor this one person's anecdotal experience. You guys are good.
So you think young people shouldn't be taught gun safety in a controlled environment before they're able to buy guns or ammo?
This is the dumbest, most dystopian American shit I've ever read. No, I don't think children should have access to firearms, period. Why is that so difficult to grasp?
You have the luxury of living in a world where young people won't be exposed to guns. There are hundreds of million of them here.
If you live on the shore of a lake, should you teach your kids to swim, or just let them figure it out when they fall off the dock when you aren't around?
Yeah because a child can wield a lake and kill several adult humans by simply moving their finger. Totally comparable.
This country is brain-broken.
Edit: Maybe if more ammosexuals downvote me, I'll change my mind. Keep trying guys!
Taking a kid to a gun range and teaching them how to safely handle a gun is different than providing them unrestricted access to firearms.
Your "abstinence only" approach to guns isn't realistic. Guns exist and just telling kids they're bad and for grownups only doesn't work.
Kids need to be given the tools they need to stay safe. Look at all the kids who were told that same things about drinking, and sex. What happens when they get to college? They go crazy and end up pregnant with their car wrapped around a tree.
They do the same thing with guns. They are suddenly old enough to buy or rent them, and they do stupid shit.
Brain damaged country...
I'm not gonna try and convince you or anything. I'm pretty spotty on it now that I have kids, but also I live in a city now, so there's not much of a point.
But I grew up where we got out of school for the first day of deer season. I would go hunting and fishing with every member of my family. Deer, quail, rabbit, turkey, duck, you name it. We'd pluck and skin em, process the meat and eat it for as long as we could. Less people hunt now and deer pops have been getting out of control. Not to mention the natural predators we have here, like cougars, coyotes, bears, snakes, goddamn hogs.
I believe guns are extremely necessary tools in rural America. But firearm safety was taught as hard as the gospel. That shit was drilled into us from as soon as we could understand words, for years before we could hold them. Turning 11 and going through hunter's safety and then first buck was a rite of passage
I'm gonna compare it to sex ed here. If people are gonna have it, you may as well teach them everything possible about doing it safely.
Okay. Say you lived here. Would you want your kids to know firearm safety? Or would you prefer they learn by playing with their friend's Dad's gun he leaves in a drawer?
i mean, educating people on how to safely handle guns is one of the best ways to prevent people from doing stupid shit with them.
5 years too late. You could have shot that at 5 years old with minimal bruising.
It was a .410 so you're not wrong