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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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WOW, I couldn't disagree more.
I've been around guns my entire life and was shotting as young as 7 or 8 years old.
I think it's pretty easy to teach kids that guns will kill people if used improperly.
Does that mean that everyone should have guns around.
Absoluely not. I know a lot of people who aren't responsible enougth to be around guns and their in their 20's.
But to make a blanket statement that you can't teach kids gun safety is pretty inaccurate.
EDIT: That all being said, cleary this is a case of a guy who didn't teach his kids proper gun safety.
Hell he apparently had a gun just laying around.
But there is a big difference between not being able to, and not being willing to teach kids how to properly handle/use a gun.