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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
I grew up in rural Alberta too. My brothers and I were allowed to shoot small calibre .22's and when we were big enough, a shot gun... always under the supervision of my dad. Sometimes we would be allowed to shot the .306 at targets but we had years of shooting experience. We moved to Calgary when I was in my teens and would go out to my family ranch to shoot. Throughout highschool and college I worked on a ranch with cattle and the kids on the ranch were paid to shoot gophers with .22s.
I dont think Im stereotyping at all. You dont see a whole lot of shooting in the cities, but definitely in the country. And if you are taking that as stereotyping, then Im including myself in that stereotype as well.
I didnt mean the post to sound as if Im attacking rural Alberta.
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Fair enough. Thanks for expanding on your post to clarify things for me.
One point I wish to stress though, in general more than in response to your post, is that a lot of the "rednecks" who go around shooting up rural Alberta are from the cities. Sure, urbanites don't go around shooting up the cities, as you point out. But they do go out to rural areas and shoot them up. It's not rural Albertans who are shooting up graineries, livestock and family pets. They have more respect for their neighbours than that. That was the issue that touched on a sore spot with me based on personal experiences.