The_Dunedan

I started learning the correct/safe use of firearms at the age of 3.5 years (with a .22 rifle), and carried my own folding pocketknife everywhere I went by the time I was 6. I wasn't allowed to take my .22 out by myself until I was 6 or 7 years old; before that my Mom was alwaya with me. I started learning handguns and shotguns at 10 or so. Any safety violation, any at all, ended shooting for the day. It isn't hard to gun-proof a kid if it's done properly. For instance, I was never allowed toy guns growing up, because it might inculcate bad habits/thought processes. Likewise, I was first taught correct handling of firearms with an unloaded rifle under strict supervision, then taught to shoot off a bench under equally stringent conditions. Only after I had consistently demonstrated that I not only could but would handle a.gun or knife safely was I allowed unsupervised acess to it.

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"I personally think that America's interests would be well served if after or at the time these clowns begin their revolting little hate crime the local police come in and cart them off on some trumped up charges or other. It is necessary in my opinion that America makes an example of them to the world."

--Strange Famous, advocating the use of falsified charges in order to shut people up.