I fired my first 12 gauge shotgun at about age 4.
Had my dad, my grandfather, my uncles, my great uncles, my great great uncles, and a great grandfather present. Might've been some more male relatives there that day but I don't recall.
They helped me lift it up but I pulled the trigger.
Even had my dad's horses there in Great Grandpa's barn, farm implements all over the place, pigs in the oak grove ~ is there anything in that memory that could possibly be wrong?
'This is how you hold it, like this. Anybody in front of you, you can mow them down. Kill everybody, soldier, because daddy's going to buy you this chopper
I’m sure your dad was not showing you how to mow down PEOPLE. I shot a 9mm (with my dad) when i was 12 years old. But my dad was not showing me how to shoot people. He was showing me that guns are nothing to play with. That they are very powerful. I think there is a difference between teaching your kid about guns and glorifying them. If that guy would have brought that gun home... that lil boy would have been crying to play with it. To that 2 year old boy, that gun was a TOY!