IMHO, if the kid had healthy exposure to firearms, rather than the repressed approach of Canada—or modern America, then he’d know better than to treat the firearm so lightly, threatening like that.
“IMHO, if the kid had healthy exposure to firearms, rather than the repressed approach of Canada—or modern America, then he’d know better than to treat the firearm so lightly, threatening like that.”
Couldn’t agree more. When I was 12 my friends and I would get our 22’s and go off in the woods hunting squirrels or rabbits. To us a firearm was just a fishing rod that had to be treated more safely, and it never occurred to us that we could brandish our 22s to make threats, be manly, or be more powerful. If one of the other boys didn’t follow proper safety rules we didn’t need parents to intercede, we just never brought him along anymore.