My son has been gifted with half a dozen fishing poles, a cast net, a Savage.22 bolt action, a Ruger 10-22, a Ruger .22 revolver, and a Glock 44.

He's 10 and we're country folk.

His guns live in my vault that he has no way to access (biometrics) and we shoot them together whenever we can. All of my kids have seen, handled, and learned about guns and gun safety since they were elementary school age. It's a way of life and not one of my family going back generations has ever shot a single person outside of military service or one case of self defense in 1991 (my uncle was jumped while delivering bread in the very early morning).

Guns are tools that have a legitimate use for both daily life and in times of crisis. The issue is not the guns, it's the fathers who aren't engaged with their children instilling good habits, respect for life, and duty to their neighbors and community that is the problem. It's the Society of Big Government Dependence that's forced fathers out of their homes, nurtured a generation of men who won't accept their duty as fathers, and incentivized a generation of women to single motherhood over a healthy two parent home. It's a cultural problem and few have any interest in the actual fix because that fix takes away much of their power.

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