This is foonay.

If you have a responsible child you can teach him responsible things. I shot soda cans with a BB gun with my dad when I was a boy.

Still haven\'t killed myself. Or him.

-Dan

[videoholic]

oye....  You can\'t compare my son with someone who would go and shoot a girl in the eye and rob her.

Not even worth the energy to type.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Paul2
But what if say your child grow up into adolescent and somehow fall into severe depression for some reasons.  I might fear he/she might take his/her life by shooting himself/herself.

I hate to break it to you but teaching your kid how to shoot a gun does not mean they will turn it on themselves. If you\'re kid saw an action movie, he has enough knowledge to point the gun to himself and pull the trigger. Its not exactly rocket science. Anyone that even knows what a gun is knows that to kill themselves, you put it to your head and pulling the trigger is how its done. Sheltering your kid from holding a gun is not gonna discourage them from shooting themselves.

[Paul2]

but teaching them how to use a gun mean that they need to own a gun in order to do that.

while not teaching them how to use a gun means that you don\'t have a buy a gun for the kid.  So later in life, he or she won\'t use it against him because he don\'t have it and too young to buy one and less likely to buy a gun later in life...

Paul2, please don\'t breed.

[Evi]

Then again, I have never held one and have no desire to.

Never? :eek:

What about a squirt gun?

[videoholic]

Originally posted by Paul2
but teaching them how to use a gun mean that they need to own a gun in order to do that.

while not teaching them how to use a gun means that you don\'t have a buy a gun for the kid.  So later in life, he or she won\'t use it against him because he don\'t have it and too young to buy one and less likely to buy a gun later in life...

Let me shoot you from 10 yards with his bb gun.  You\'d think a mosquito bit you.

oh, and Bozco said it best.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Paul2
but teaching them how to use a gun mean that they need to own a gun in order to do that.

while not teaching them how to use a gun means that you don\'t have a buy a gun for the kid.  So later in life, he or she won\'t use it against him because he don\'t have it and too young to buy one and less likely to buy a gun later in life...

What the fuck are you talking about? I dont\' own a gun and I\'m very accurate with one as well as responsible. I learned how to fire one from my father who gave me a BB gun when I was younger (don\'t even have it anymore). Then I learned how to fire a .22 rifle, a shotgun and a civil war era muzzle loading rifle in Scout camp. And the Boy Scouts spend like 2 days out of 5 at camp stressing responsibility and safety you wouldn\'t believe.

Besides, how many video games do you play seriously have never shown you how to fire one?

If you don\'t know how to fire a gun, you really should be shot. Its not that frickin hard. You point the open end of the barrel to a target and you pull the trigger. Its not that hard.

[Paul2]

Originally posted by Titan

If you don\'t know how to fire a gun, you really should be shot. Its not that frickin hard. You point the open end of the barrel to a target and you pull the trigger. Its not that hard.

I never in my life hold a gun or own one before.  That\'s why I didn\'t know it was so easy to shoot.  I thought you need practice to aim at the target from a distance and shoot at the specify spot or something.  And I assumed that you need to know how to hold the gun properly, and learn how to load the magazines in properly too or something.

Again, I am nearly clueless when it comes to guns.  So, I didn\'t know it was much easier to use than I thought.

I guess that\'s a good thing my family doesn\'t own a gun or touch one before.  Otherwise, I would have been dead a long time ago...just me personally...

[Titan]

Originally posted by Paul2
I never in my life hold a gun or own one before.  That\'s why I didn\'t know it was so easy to shoot.  I thought you need practice to aim at the target from a distance and shoot at the specify spot or something.  And I assumed that you need to know how to hold the gun properly, and learn how to load the magazines in properly too or something.

Again, I am nearly clueless when it comes to guns.  So, I didn\'t know it was much easier to use than I thought.

I guess that\'s a good thing my family doesn\'t own a gun or touch one before.  Otherwise, I would have been dead a long time ago...just me personally...

Most people that commit murders do it at point blank range so you don\'t need to know how to use it, just to point and shoot. Yes you need practice if you shoot at a distance. I\'ve never fired a handgun so I can guarentee my accuracy is shit but I\'ve fired a shotgun and can completely blow a clay pigeon into dust much of the time. I fired .22 rifles in a sitting position but standing up my accuracy is a little less. But I was pretty accurate with a black powder rifle standing up. I was the only one in the group at camp that actually hit the target (it was just a one day, one shot thing and the target was a clay pigeon clothespinned to a wire). When I get into the military, then they really teach me how to shoot.

[videoholic]

I\'ve shot a glock before.. That\'s the only hand gun I\'ve ever shot.  It\'s tough.  Rifles and shotguns are way easier to shoot a target.

Originally posted by Paul2
I guess that\'s a good thing my family doesn\'t own a gun or touch one before.  

Paul, don\'t bother..

This is still by majority, a USA based forum.

More or less futile to argument against that country\'s gun law or general stance on civilian gun possession.

Your general opinion on it is welcomed in Europe

[GmanJoe]

Teaching fire arms safety is essential. Also, letting the child know just how dangerous guns are will instill upon them a very good sense of fear and responsibility. They will also know that the guns they see in movies are just that - movies.

If a kid not knowing anything about guns except what they see in movies and gets a hold of a gun, is far more dangerous to themselves and others than those kids who have had proper training with fire arms. From BB guns to howitzer.

It\'s like giving a non-driving 14 year old a car with an auto transmission and a 14 year who has been given proper training how to drive a vehicle. You know who\'ll live and who won\'t.

[Titan]

Originally posted by videoholic
I\'ve shot a glock before.. That\'s the only hand gun I\'ve ever shot.  It\'s tough.  Rifles and shotguns are way easier to shoot a target.

Shotguns have a hell of a kickback though. Some rifles do too but a 12 guage compared to a .22 rifle is one hell of a difference

[videoholic]

OPh hell yeah.  But the glock has some kick too.