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Originally Posted by llama64
You cannot teach children proper gun safety. Even as teenagers they barely have a grasp on cause and effect to understand what it means to shoot someone. Not only that, most children have not developed any sense of empathy to use when judging cause and effect in the first place.
Parents can lecture all day long about things and yet their children will still screw up.
Better just to keep the damn things out of the house.
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Sorry, disagree.
I can buy that a child may not fully understand what it means to shoot someone, but that is not required to teach proper safety principles and to help them understand shooting someone is wrong and that serious consequences can result.
I have seen plenty of examples of children learning and respecting guns, and that includes myself when I was a kid.
Regardless, if a parent didn't want to teach their kid about it, then proper storage safe handling principles is logical for most people. But no matter what, there are always circumstances where people don't do logical things.