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In git.general TRVolk <gt2623a@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
> In article Bruce Labbate <8d4jil$8c$1@news-int.gatech.edu>, sol
> <solomon@angband.org> wrote:
>>
>>Why on earth does a child that young need a gun?

> Safety training!  What do you think the subject of this thread is?  

One does not need to own a gun in order to learn safety training.  

> Since my son will probably start hunting when he is 12, I want him to have
> as much experience handling weapons as he can get, not to mention shooting
> on his high school's rifle team if he is so inclined (and there still is a
> team).  When a boy turns 8, he is old enough to put away the kiddy toys
> and start learning to use the tools of a grown man.

Ah yes, the mature and wizened age of 8.  When a man truly becomes a
man.  Hell, I'm surprised he'd have time to learn to use a gun.  After
all, he should have had a full-time job for at least a year or two at
that point.  

And believe it or not, a huge number of grown men don't use guns.  They
don't consider them to be "tools."  Tools to do what?  Kill?  That's all
that guns are used for.  That's all they're designed for.  I'd rather be
the type of grown man who doesn't always have an implement of death
around at all times.  

What if your son doesn't want to start hunting when he's 12?  I
certainly didn't.  

> Further, just in case the draft is reinstated at some time in the future
> and my boy is involved, I definitely want him to be as experienced with
> weapons as he can be.

I would rather that my son be in college during a draft.  

> My son was 3 when I taught him to use a computer.  Why on earth does a
> child that young need one of those?

3 might be a bit young for a computer, but probably not.  Depends what
you're teaching him on it.  A computer can teach a child many many
wonderful things.  

A gun teaches a child how to kill.  

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