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Originally Posted by Reconshooter  What ever happened to parents teaching children commen sense gun saftey?? My dad taught me to shoot very young, but before i could even handle the real gun he taught me how to handle firearms with my toy guns, Never pont it at anyone, keep it to the sky or to the ground, don't unsafty untill your ready to fire...well i don't have to list this stuff, its all common sense, i see things on paintball fields that the newbie kids do that drives me nuts, parents need to teach thier children. Bans on toy guns is part of the problem in my opinion, it just promotes this "gun paranoid society" where everyone walks around saying "guns kill, guns are bad" and other ignorant statements, guns are tools, simple as that, just like a dad teaches his son to use a power drill or wrench or whatever, should be the same with a gun. |
There you go pulling out the "common sense" card again. Don't you know that "common sense" ain't so common anymore?
Besides, to pass on stuff like that to the kids the parents have to have some common sense as well. Just look at Oprah and Dr Phil shows to see that, sadly, all too many parents haven't got the ability to rub two synapses together and produce so much as a single brain spark.
That leaves the onus on the Governement much as I'm loathe to admit that. An ad campaingn that says something like "if it looks like a gun and you point it at someone and get shot for it don't come crying to us" would be a good place to start.
And yes, I agree that it's a sad day indeed when we need to rely on the government to take on the role of the sensible parent.