Posted on 08/28/2014 7:00:11 PM PDT by DBrow
Should children be allowed to learn to shoot guns....
No, 73% currently
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
No, it’s a current-events driven poll. A kid was learning to shoot an Uzi at a range, and muzzle flip spun the thing around, fatally shooting the instructor. So naturally there is lots of buzz among the antis who see this as a good propaganda topic.
Ah ha ha ha ha
I think David Crockett had his first rifle at eight.
I learned to shoot in the Army, for which I am forever grateful.
Yea, but still.
"He killed him a b'ar when he was only three."
Better adult supervision than being supervised by another child.
How the hell else are you going to teach kids to shoot?
They are expecting to make their blood dance work for them as much as possible.
“How the hell else are you going to teach kids to shoot?”
That is the key right there. If kids can’t shoot until they are, say, 21, the next generation will have many fewer shooters.
Aw come on, Johnny, where's your spirit of adventure?
"Look Timmy, Look Sue. This is Mom's UZI, let's see how it works!"
Next line?
“Should children be allowed to learn to shoot guns under adult supervision?
No 69% 124
Yes 31% 55
Total votes: 179
This is not a scientific poll”
179 votes...just about their whole readership.
I didn't fire my first gun until I was 18 (and that was in 2006), But then I remember Election Night 2008 my Mother going to my Father and telling him "I want a gun for protection" So we went out that weekend and bought a Shotgun (PACKED btw)
Even still I personally didn't become a gun owner until 2009 when I was 21. Bought my Target Pistol... Then it sorta cascaded from there.
Why did we wait until it was so late? Well, Shooting just wasn't something we did growing up.
It is Now though.
I was twelve when I shot my dads .22 rifle in my uncle’s basement shooting range. It was real loud down there.
I was thirteen when I went through a gun handler’s certification course. Then, I took my dad’s 300 Winchester Magnum on a family deer hunt.
When they took the Christian God out of the schools, the craziness began.
“179 votes...just about their whole readership.”
Yeah, I can remember when we FReeped a CNN poll and the numbers would be in the thousands.
I wonder if the count includes people trapped in airports?
I had bb guns since little kid. My dad bought me single shot designed for child 410 shotgun when I was 12 for Christmas. Boy!. I remeber reading how to practice in Boy’s Life. Lie in bed with shotgun find mark on ceiling move gun and stop. Next time we went hunting I nailed a pheasant from 20 yards with my little 410. No one could believe it. Great memories.
When I was nine, I learned to throw rocks. When I was ten me and my nine year old brother got a BB gun for Christmas (my brother scored a perfect in his US Army PT marksman test). Then I discovered the sling. I could sling a rock 100 yards with accuracy. These were the days when we played base ball and foot ball instead of watching TV. We had a fort out in the woods and a tree house in the back yard. I never even had a speeding ticket in 30 years. I respect the rule of law and my God.
And voting "Yes" doesn't change the total count. So it seems the CNN poll isn't really a poll. Maybe it just counted the results from the CNN employees.
See the vid? Trainer did a shoddy job...
...........on Sundays, after church, I would go home with 2 buddies who’s mother ran/owned a 400 acre goat ranch following her husbands untimely death.
We would go down in this deep creek with cliffs out of a type of clay and dig tunnels into them and wear togas like cave men and have “wars” with our BB guns by literally shooting at each other with them. The rule was below the waist but invariably I was hit above the waist. We did wear goggles. Naturally their momma didn’t know or we would have been in big trouble! Then, we would clean up, put on our clothes, go back to night time church and then I would go home with my mother and dad. Those were the days!
The UZI was not the problem... She did fine on single shot... Full Auto was the problem, just plain stupid. Both my boys had shot my 357 magnum and my sks rifle by the time they were 9. With the 357, I was also helping them stabilize the gun, but let them feel the kick it had, I wanted them to have respect for the weapon that they really did not get from a bb gun. Neither one of them wanted the second shot without me holding the gun, until closer to about 12 years old and neither of them wanted to feel how much extra the 357 magnum shell was over the 38 shell they shot the first time either. I will say my oldest son’s first time shooting the 22 (rifle) was using a chipped toilet tank as a target, the way that thing exploded when he hit it, His eyes got about as big as fifty cent pieces... he had a healthy respect for guns before he was 6 years old and knew they were not toys. I kept them locked up because we had a lot of other kids in and out of our house, but did not worry about my kids playing with guns.
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