Re: Got my fox!

In article <Xns980E5EBF767EBdanny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
diddy <diddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

in thread news:12ck1bf953jucfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: "D. McDaniels"
<D.McDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> whittled the following words:

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:58:50 +0100, roseyposey wrote:



Of course it does! We simply have a different attitude to it
culturally.
If I held a houseful of armory the liklihood of my children having a
horrendous accident with one would be very high.
First you mention culture and then in the same breath you talk about
the likelihood of injury to your kids. So, are you saying in your
culture it's acceptable for kids to get into your personal things? Do
you just dismiss that as being "normal"? Culture indeed.

Where I grew up, there were guns in every teenagers closet. I was
hunting solo at 13 years old. I stocked the freezer with game but
I've never killed a person.

I was boggled when I read that also. My son, who we adopted at age 5,
grew up i na house full of guns, and helped in my husband's business
(he was a gun deaLER at that time) He was plenty confused (still is) But
he never shot anyone. I know my neighbors on all sides have guns in their
houses, and had, or currently have children. No gun incidents there either.
I guess because children as taught restraint and respect for guns and gun
handling makes some impulse control. When a child goes wrong with a gun,
it's news. BIG news. When you look at the other ways children go bonkers
with automobiles, etc.. And you factor in the vast size and population of
this country, add in the number of households with guns AND children, you
begin to realize how rare these examples are sensationalized all over the
world when something happens. Hysterical media makes it sound like a
common occurence. It gives the anti's something to rant about.

Given,that every household had a gun in the years that formed our early
history, where was the sensationalism then? Why was it ok then,and not
now? Media, people with opinions detached from facts ..etc. People
are living ever more and more in a fantasy world detached from reality,
and concepts that milk comes from a box,and chickens come from store
shelves in little baggies. They don't like to think about where food
REALLY came from. Or that it got killed to get there.
I grew up shooting as a sport. I never killed anything except a lot
of paper targets and tincans. Guns were NOT toys.We were never allowed
to have toy pistols, because guns were NOT toys.They were serious tools.
We never were allowed to even point a finger, and go *BANG* because
guns are NOT play. Not even the rubber band rifles. It was instilled
that guns shot TARGETS, not people!

I think children taught EARLY about guns don't have problems.
I shot my first soda can with a BB gun when I was only 4 years old. I
grew up with them, I've always respected them, and I still remember
getting spanked for aiming an unloaded BB gun in the wrong direction the
first time. ;-)
--
Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch"
-- Jack Nicholson
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