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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Give the kids guns too.

That was intended to sound sarcastic, but most kids I knew in rural America have been around guns since they were big enough to carry them. I personally started shooting a .22 when I was in kindergarten and was just hardly big enough to shoot a 30-06 when I was about 10 or so. (I am very much the liberal gun owner type, btw.)

While I can't change the past, I do find myself questioning the logic of my experience at times. For yet another direction shift, my girls are both trained in gun safety, but that started years before I let them even touch a gun.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I’ve been shooting since I was about 5 too.

I haven’t in many years, but I think I was 10 or 11 when my dad got me a 20 gauge.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

A 14yo was the first to fire at Marshalls at Ruby Ridge.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah. I grew up around guns. I was shooting 22s early like you, had a compact shotgun by the age of 10, etc.

We didn't live in the country, so while we had guns in the house, we did NOT have ammunition in the house until I was 15 or so, just in case me or my sister ever decided to play with a gun. We bought ammo on the way to the range or the hunt, and anything we didn't shoot was given to a family member.