Incidentally, if you are interested, I DO have a child (almost 2 yrs), and I certainly would not even contemplate letting him have a gun (no matter how well he can use it) until he can legal get one himself. I will certainly invoke serious wrath (on him and anyone else involved) if I ever found him with a gun.
Yes, those guns are evil things. Evil I tell you, constantly shooting people for no reason, going off half-cocked and whooping it up all by their polished oiled ol selves.
Hmm. Sarcasm? Cannot definitively say, but I'll guess it is.
Isn't it funny how otherwise rational people can ascribe intentions and moral alignement (ie. good/evil) to an inert chunk of steel?
Assuming you are accusing me of such, you should probably point out specifically where I said such a thing. (If I did, it would be bad grammar or some such, and I would certainly retract it.)
He also taught me the basics of gun saftey, and made sure that I took those classes that were available to me in the areas of gun saftey and marksmanship.
You might be missing the mark too, but I thought the subject was giving a gun to every child who enters school, not YOURs or SOME EXPERT 6 YEAR OLD's special case. Yes, if every child was truly an exemplary God-fearing Christian, I would probably have fewer objections to giving every child a gun. After all, they would NEVER use it in a fit of rage or jealousy or any such sins ... Right? Death is permanent. A child is prone to accidents. Maybe those of you who are just too "special" and "talented" don't need such paternalistic frameworks, but I know my child cannot tell right from wrong, good from bad. He will get better over time. But I don't want another child to pay for my son's less than full maturity by getting shot. Ern