I don't know enough about gun safety to really properly judge, but if the question is whether showing a kid how to properly handle weapons, I would not consider that irresponsible in any way. Seems like a positive thing.
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Is this irresponsible parenting?
Something worse?
Something better?
Oops, I accidentally hit "yes" when I meant to hit "no". :3oops:
Yes, of course I'm okay with it. I started my son on basic gunhandling and safety at age 4. By age 10 he'd shot almost all my guns and was on his way to becoming a competent marksman.
The majority of my friends are raising their children to have similar skills. Many of them take their first deer before age 12.
It's all a matter of teaching them the right values and making sure they understand the seriousness of any endeavor involving guns. Just like teaching a kid to drive a Bobcat or operate a chainsaw (also things my son has already learned to do}, its a GOOD thing as long as you teach them responsibility and provide the needed supervision.
I wouldn't say it's irresponsible, but to me guns will never ever be a good thing. Ever. Unless you're a hunter, a soldier or a police officer, there is absolutely no reason for you to own a gun and I'm 100% supportive of the strict rules regarding gun ownership in Sweden (where I'm from).
If I knew that my neighbors had guns in their house (even for protection) I'd flee the neighborhood because I wouldn't be able to sleep safely at night knowing that there was such a dangerous weapon within close proximity of my house.
I realize it's a different culture and mindset over there. But it still doesn't change that you have the highest gun violence rates (among developed countries) in the world. If you say that it's not the gun that kills people but people, then does that mean Americans are a more violent people? If so, then all the more reason to NOT have such lax view on gun ownership! It's like giving a match box to an arsonist. But if Americans are not more prone to violence than other developed countries, then it must go back to the gun being the source of the problem.
I'm just not used to people owning guns. I've never seen a gun in real life and I hope I'll never have to. Not even the police force carry firearms on a regular basis in Sweden.Wow....just...wow...
I wouldn't say it's irresponsible, but to me guns will never ever be a good thing. Ever. Unless you're a hunter, a soldier or a police officer, there is absolutely no reason for you to own a gun and I'm 100% supportive of the strict rules regarding gun ownership in Sweden (where I'm from).
I'm just not used to people owning guns. I've never seen a gun in real life and I hope I'll never have to. Not even the police force carry firearms on a regular basis in Sweden.
I don't see why anybody should need a gun in their home. But I'm also from a different culture where most would feel the same. We feel our families and properties are safe and secure without firearms.I'm interested to know why you feel that law-abiding citizens aren't entitled to use maximum force available to protect themselves, their families or property?
I don't frighten easily. I just wouldn't feel comfortable or safe in the close proximity of a firearm. And I wasn't being literal when I said I would actually move, but I said so to make the point that guns wouldn't make me feel secure and protected but uncomfortable, paranoid and unsafe.This is probably not nice since you apparently frighten easily, but a quick search of your crime picture shows that while you still got nothing on us in the gun violence arena, your criminals still got them guns...and drugs...and apparently violent crime is rising...you got some problems with some neo-nazis and muslim youth brewing...so...Im not suggesting you should move...but you might want to start stockpiling boxes...
WOW.I wouldn't say it's irresponsible, but to me guns will never ever be a good thing. Ever. Unless you're a hunter, a soldier or a police officer, there is absolutely no reason for you to own a gun and I'm 100% supportive of the strict rules regarding gun ownership in Sweden (where I'm from).
If I knew that my neighbors had guns in their house (even for protection) I'd flee the neighborhood because I wouldn't be able to sleep safely at night knowing that there was such a dangerous weapon within close proximity of my house.
Never heard. I just don't like firearms. I've always associated them with killing, war and misery.WOW.
And they say that Hoplophobia is a made-up term.
I don't see why anybody should need a gun in their home. But I'm also from a different culture where most would feel the same. We feel our families and properties are safe and secure without firearms.
I don't frighten easily. I just wouldn't feel comfortable or safe in the close proximity of a firearm. And I wasn't being literal when I said I would actually move, but I said so to make the point that guns wouldn't make me feel secure and protected but uncomfortable, paranoid and unsafe.
Neo-nazis have been a problem since the early '90s but it's not made any of us want to 'protect ourselves' with weapons. The 'muslim youth' troubles are in immigrant-only suburban areas of the larger cities, Malmö in particular. Where I live there's nothing of the sort. And even with all those numbers rising on violence, drugs, rapes, murders etc - I still wouldn't get a gun. I don't live in fear of being a victim of a crime.
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