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Old 02-14-2008, 05:02 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by llama64 View Post
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.
You have a very low opinion of kids, their level of intelligence, their faculty for learning and their ability to discern right from wrong. Just curious ... do you have any kids yourself?

In my experience, kids are a lot brighter and empathetic than you're giving them credit for.
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