Originally Posted by
evenodds20
i understand the reasoning for not playing with toy guns. but, i had them when i was a kid and remember being told not to point them, dont touch the trigger, etc.... so i figure if i understood at an early age, he hopefully will too.
Different frame of reference, I guess. I had lots of toy guns when I was a kid, but did not shoot regularly until I was in the Marines. Guns were just toys to me (my parents were from overseas and knew nothing of the gun culture here - though my dad eventually did get a couple of guns and joined the NRA when I was in High School).
My oldest is already "making" guns out of stuff. He plays with other kids that have them, but he never wonders why he can't have a toy gun - we've had the conversation enough. The fact that I come home with a gun on my hip every night reinforces the "no toy" thing with him.
He does get to handle my firearms quite often when we talk about them, and he enjoys that. I don't want them to be a mystery to him.
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Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. -- Ernest Hemingway
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