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Originally Posted by silver_snipe
She should be appplauded. Too bad she missed (yeah I know she connected with 5 out of 6 rounds but he walked away so she missed).
Now all the comments about kids brings to mind a question. Who has shown their kids all of their firearms and how to load them & make them safe? Are they or have they handled each of their firearms?
Yeah I know that is more than a question but here is my rationale behind it. I believe if you show your children what your weapon is and what it will do. then how to safely handle it under supervision you take the mystery and awe away so they will obey the rules and better yet know how to SAFELY handle it if presented with an unexpected occurance. I believe everyone should be taught how to safely handle a firearm whether they ever take up shooting or not or even like firearms.
Now my choice for in home defense is 12 gauge loaded with bird or squirrel shot. Why that load you say? Simple at 15 to 20 which is in home shooting distance squirrel or bird shot will penetrate a persons torso with a small spread and not penetrate the wal behind him that buckshot may. Perp is just as dead and not going to repeat the offense.
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That's a good question regarding kids and firearm education.
At this point, my daughter is two and, my son is five. I've started with my son already. The basics, no gun is EVER unloaded!!! No gun is ever to be pointed at anyone, ever. He knows and understands why we have a gun safe. I stress to him that, if not used properly, people may get hurt with a gun, or worse. I've started, recently, showing him how several of our firearms work and how to load magazines(we've also used this as a tool to improve his counting!...I know he can count to at least 30! LOL). He helps me clean our firearms after a day of shooting and has been with me twice to go shooting. Before we ever fired the first shot, he was shown what a fireline is and why we have it. That being said, I've been very cautious as to who is around while we're shooting because, sadly, I know people who are far less cautious when handling firearms
and, I do not want him to pick up any habits from them.