Quote:I agree that people and kid's especially used to be taught proper safety and maintenance of firearms more commonly than they do now. Previous generations learned how to respect guns much more than this generation. Which is why it scares me to know just how many gun owners today never got that training or experience. They learned from Call of Duty. Might explain why so many of them miss and kill innocent bystanders.

All of my kids have held my firearms including my high powered rifles like the ak47 and my ar15 platforms. I let them feel it (unloaded obviously) and explain to them how it's a tool and like any other tool if not used properly it can hurt someone.


I've eliminated the curiosity by doing that. My oldest I've taken him to fire a few of the smaller weapons but he's still young so it was more just to expose him to the power of the weapon so he understands it's not a toy.


I think it should be apart of school curriculums, here a pistol, this is how you clean it, store it, and what happens when you fire it. Here is a rifle this how you clean it, store it and what happens when you fire it. As it is today half the populations thinks automatic weapons are legal and more than half the population calls a civilian ar15 an assault weapon. The moment I hear we should ban assault weapons I know I'm dealing with someone that has no idea what they're talking about.

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