Should there be a law against teaching children how to use a gun?

Nope , that’s ridiculous . Gun safety should be taught 1st thru 12th

No. Around here it's a rite of passage. [b] With normal people, it's normal.[/b] Around 10 years of age a kid should learn gun safety and marksmanship. [b] In normal households[/b] the 'safety' part should come even earlier, but[b] a normal child in a normal healthy household [/b]should have a decent rifle at 12 years of age.
[b][c=#BF0000]There is no gun problem. There is a behavioral problem because of the damage the left has done to children's minds. [/c][/b]

Hardly. Should be expected to teach how and respect

I would say that children should be taught how to defend themselves, but not with a gun.

No. Not if they also taught them safety. I started hunting at 12, was required to get a license and that required a safety class. I have yet to shoot anyone on purpose or by accident.

Back before the Gun Control Act of 1934 and 1938, anyone with cash could order a fully automatic surplus machine gun COD through the mail. Actual military surplus Thompsons with a rate of fire double that of an M-16, 1200-1300 rounds a minute, with no age limit, no background checks, no waiting period, nothing. Yet there were no school or theater shootings in the 1920s or 1930s. After GCA 34,38,68 and 1994s "assault weapon ban" counting state laws we have enacted over 20,000 gun laws as a nation to solve the problem. It is more prevalent now that when there were almost no laws concerning guns. Is another set of laws restricting guns going to make a difference. When you look at most of the people involved in shootings, they acquired the firearm illegally, they carried it illegally, they discharged it inside restricted areas illegally. They shot other people, illegal. Do you think that one more felony charge that can be added to the list will stop the guy from trying to kill people? Guns are harder to get now than ever before yet the problem persists. It isn't a gun problem, it is a decay in the value of life and the morals of our society that has caused the problem.

With bump stocks and chainsaw bayonets

No but their should be a law that makes these slob teachers stick to the actual education syllabus instead of injecting their filthy self deleterious opinions and behaviors into the everyday lives of my children.

Well, let's look at it this way. Parent teaches child how to use a gun. Kid goes to school and blows out a their bully's brains. Who do you think is going to be held the most responsible and get in the most trouble? Even worse, what if that kid accidentally shoots a family member? In addition to the consequences, how do you think that child will be affected, along with the rest of the family? I can't believe that [b]no one[/b] has brought this up.

No. That’s like saying instead of teaching kids about safe sex, we tell them nothing and hope for the best.

I was about 10 or younger when I first used a gun. I shot a can off the fence in the woods whilst on holiday with my dad. I was never that interested in it after that. I actually only did it twice then I never really cared about guns. I now hate guns. I shot the gun cabinet last year as I was bored on holiday at a farm , same place. I say yes and no , some kids are mature and know what you can do and shouldn’t do with guns , whilst some don’t understand or are mentally ill and use them for the wrong reasons. I say it all depends on the person. I was curious and I found out what it was like to use one then that curiosity died out even when my dad cleaned them in front of me and I watched him load them , I guess I got used to being around them all my life I never really bothered about using them as it wasn’t no longer a new thing. I think giving them an opportunity just to try it with being surprised at all times is ok but it’s teaching them right from wrong and how to be mature and safe around them including others safety.

On the contrary all children should learn gun safety & handling.

There should be a law to ban guns to the public who are illiterate.

I saw something the other day where they quoted one person per day is killed by a child or toddler playing with a gun ... Go figure!

If there are guns in the house then the kids should be taught gun safety and use as should the adults be taught. In the USA any moron can buy a gun and think they are experts because they watched a John Wayne movie. They leave loaded weapons on the coffee table. When a child picks it up and shoots someone everyone clamors for more laws. It would be better to hold the dumbass adults accountable.

I have guns and they are locked away. My grandchildren have seen them and have been instructed that if they see a gun then they are to tell my wife or I immediately and not to touch it.
Next year I will take the 2 oldest to the range so they can learn basic shooting.

To teach them gun safety, no, to teach them ammosexual barrel licking propaganda rhetoric, yes.

That sounds like something that would be extremely difficult to impossible to regulate and enforce. It better to enforce laws that keep guns locked up and away from children so they don't hurt themselves. Kids also should learn that guns are not toys and to treat every firearm as if it's loaded

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. Did my parents teach my siblings and I how to use a gun like the violent, animalistic gang members? No, they taught us how to fight.

No, many of our soldiers grew up with guns. That would be a bad idea.

its not rocket science point and shoot, 🙃

I don't think so. Personal choice.

It’s a free country

No there should not.

No.

Nope. Law should be limited to preventing theft, murder and slavery and that’s it.

No but they should learn how to defend themselves around the appropriate age

Yes. I would focus more on teaching them self defense or a martial art.

No. Let's not make all the things illegal.

Yes, of course there should. Isn't there already?

Absolutely not!!!

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