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Originally posted by Memnoch
This is where I have to make my post interactive, I suppose. What are you teaching/plan on teaching your children about guns? About sex? When? Do you tend to consider yourself more on the liberal or conservative end of the political spectrum? Why, if you find sex and/or guns repulsive/frightening/cause for concern/etc, do you find them thus?
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I find guns frightening because I was never taught how to use them safely and I grew up in a neighborhood in LA where I watched a neighbor of mine get shot and killed by an ex-lover. I find them slightly off-putting in a civilian setting because the only two uses I can think of are to shoot inanimate objects (which is relatively inoffensive) and to shoot living things.
As much as I hate the way the meat industry in this country operates, I eat the meat I get at the grocery store. Once, I even ate a rabbit that my brother-in-law hunted. Some ecosystems depend on hunting to keep, for instance, the deer population low enough for the foliage to survive. Beyond these ends, I am not a proponent of hunting living things for sport. Considering my limited experience with guns (the political spectrum aside), I plan to teach any future children to be what I am - a responsible user of the planet we live on. If they want to learn how to use guns, I will take them to a place where they can learn safely.