I think the worst thing we did was get rid of realistic toy guns. Let the juvenile minds get over the ‘pew pew’ stage before they are old enough to buy the real thing.
I’ve got a collection of guns from movies. Like the one from Quigley Down Under and the pistol that Lance James Henriksen used in Die Hard. One that I missed was the one from Thunder Bolt and Light Foot. I was considering it when I met the woman that is now my wife. Seems there were better things to spend that money on! Oh well, it would have been difficult to store and take to the range.
As kids, my brother and I had all sorts of toy cap pistols, ray guns, etc. and I think ( much against my father’s feelings ) I had a Red Rider B.B. rifle. My Dad was fairly adamant about us not having air rifles or B.B. guns because of the number of injuries kids inflicted on each other with them.
BUT… I had archery equipment – real bows and arrows – and had my first .22 cal target rifle at about age 11 ! In both instances, safety courses and lessons were mandatory for owning them and there were strict rules about usage and storage – rifle was stripped of bolt, and locked away, along with unstrung bow, the rifle bolt, arrows and ammunition were safely locked away in another locker.
It wasn’t that my father didn’t trust me or my younger brother, he did. He didn’t trust our friends !
I was married to a gun lover/collector. He took each of our 3 sons out to learn how to shoot and appreciate the power of guns. 2 were totally not interested. 1 was and now owns more than a few. He KNOWS how to handle them. It’s those who don’t understand and respect the power of them that can get themselves into trouble. Such is the way of some things people love to collect. Me, I stuck with Hummels and perfume bottles. I never heard of anyone being killed by either.
Back when I was twixt ages 6 and 16 I had a lot of quite realistic looking toy guns, pistols, rifles, shotguns and even a Mattel 1/2 scale M-16 that make gun fire noises and smoke came from the barrel. And not a red tip on the muzzle in the lot. And I never heard of any kid getting shot by the cop’s.
whataboytjiex2 over 5 years ago
YEAH! On the news reports!
Differentname over 5 years ago
I think the worst thing we did was get rid of realistic toy guns. Let the juvenile minds get over the ‘pew pew’ stage before they are old enough to buy the real thing.
Qiset over 5 years ago
I’ve got a collection of guns from movies. Like the one from Quigley Down Under and the pistol that Lance James Henriksen used in Die Hard. One that I missed was the one from Thunder Bolt and Light Foot. I was considering it when I met the woman that is now my wife. Seems there were better things to spend that money on! Oh well, it would have been difficult to store and take to the range.
WCraft Premium Member over 5 years ago
So true. When visiting Great Britain, there are young people there who assume everyone in America carries a gun.
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
3% of the loonies buy most of the guns.
cdnalor over 5 years ago
Is that where they get the six-guns that never run out of bullets and the silencers that make almost no sound?
Linguist over 5 years ago
As kids, my brother and I had all sorts of toy cap pistols, ray guns, etc. and I think ( much against my father’s feelings ) I had a Red Rider B.B. rifle. My Dad was fairly adamant about us not having air rifles or B.B. guns because of the number of injuries kids inflicted on each other with them.
BUT… I had archery equipment – real bows and arrows – and had my first .22 cal target rifle at about age 11 ! In both instances, safety courses and lessons were mandatory for owning them and there were strict rules about usage and storage – rifle was stripped of bolt, and locked away, along with unstrung bow, the rifle bolt, arrows and ammunition were safely locked away in another locker.
It wasn’t that my father didn’t trust me or my younger brother, he did. He didn’t trust our friends !
Skylark over 5 years ago
I was married to a gun lover/collector. He took each of our 3 sons out to learn how to shoot and appreciate the power of guns. 2 were totally not interested. 1 was and now owns more than a few. He KNOWS how to handle them. It’s those who don’t understand and respect the power of them that can get themselves into trouble. Such is the way of some things people love to collect. Me, I stuck with Hummels and perfume bottles. I never heard of anyone being killed by either.
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
July 16, 2018 – Nerve agent that killed British woman and left her partner fighting for his life was found in perfume bottle, victim’s brother claims.
mauser7 over 5 years ago
Back when I was twixt ages 6 and 16 I had a lot of quite realistic looking toy guns, pistols, rifles, shotguns and even a Mattel 1/2 scale M-16 that make gun fire noises and smoke came from the barrel. And not a red tip on the muzzle in the lot. And I never heard of any kid getting shot by the cop’s.