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<blockquote data-quote="Andy" data-source="post: 448295" data-attributes="member: 5096"><p>There was a very difficult child kid in my difficult child's gun safety class. I am very upset that the kid received 100% on the test. Why? Because it was an oral test for him given in a separate room. This was a kid that was lucky if he knew his own name on any given moment. I really doubt that he could even answer questions on an oral test without the questions being altered to lead him to the answers. His reaction time in shooting would be slower than slow - there is no way that on his own he would be aware enough of his surroundings to safely make the decision to shoot or not. There is no way this kid understands or remembers the points of safety taught in that class. I really got the feeling that he was being pampered and steps made to make him feel good about it. Grrrrrrrr</p><p></p><p>The ONLY reason the kid down the road (3 months younger than difficult child) has been given permission to handle a BB gun is because HE went snooping through his grandfather's closet and stumbled across a bb gun AND since difficult child is allowed to shoot a gun, HE has to be given permission or give his mom misery until she grants it. She has got to stop allowing him to do things just because difficult child is allowed to! She hates/loathes guns but is allowing her son to handle one because difficult child has been allowed to and because she is a widow, believes that her kids have to have and do EVERYTHING all other kids do. She would rather complain about me allowing it than stand up for her own wishes in her own family. She doesn't like that difficult child is allowed to hunt but refuses to say no to her child who does not have the supervision that difficult child has in handling guns. Her son and a gun do not mix. He does not have a respect for anything.</p><p></p><p>There is a kid that difficult child bowls with that I asked his dad about possibly letting him join the Jr Rifle club. I would trust this kid. The dad said no because he has an older brother who would not be a good canidate to shoot a gun and the parents knew that whatever they let their easy child do, they would have a hard time with their difficult child who would not be able to. Even though you do not use your own guns at the club, the parents did not want to introduce their difficult child to that activity if even through his brother since he would then feel like he could handle a gun and maybe help himself to one at a friend's or relative's home. Good parents - looking at the whole picture! </p><p></p><p>I did not grow up in a hunting family but husband did. He hunts and fishes so of course his son will also. It really does make a difference if the person grows up with responsible gun owners. My dad did own a gun but I don't know that I really knew where he kept it. It was brought out only once that I remember. However, even though he did not hunt, he taught us girls to respect a gun and to stay safe during hunting season. Even though no one was suppose to be on our property to hunt, we were to beware of the possibility of a hunter during November and were not allowed in the woods. We also wore orange at the edge of the woods during hunting season. Better to introduce a child to the responsibility of a gun at a young age when he or she is more apt to respect the rules of gun safety than to wait until they are appeared to be old enough to hunt on their own and handed a gun without previous experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 448295, member: 5096"] There was a very difficult child kid in my difficult child's gun safety class. I am very upset that the kid received 100% on the test. Why? Because it was an oral test for him given in a separate room. This was a kid that was lucky if he knew his own name on any given moment. I really doubt that he could even answer questions on an oral test without the questions being altered to lead him to the answers. His reaction time in shooting would be slower than slow - there is no way that on his own he would be aware enough of his surroundings to safely make the decision to shoot or not. There is no way this kid understands or remembers the points of safety taught in that class. I really got the feeling that he was being pampered and steps made to make him feel good about it. Grrrrrrrr The ONLY reason the kid down the road (3 months younger than difficult child) has been given permission to handle a BB gun is because HE went snooping through his grandfather's closet and stumbled across a bb gun AND since difficult child is allowed to shoot a gun, HE has to be given permission or give his mom misery until she grants it. She has got to stop allowing him to do things just because difficult child is allowed to! She hates/loathes guns but is allowing her son to handle one because difficult child has been allowed to and because she is a widow, believes that her kids have to have and do EVERYTHING all other kids do. She would rather complain about me allowing it than stand up for her own wishes in her own family. She doesn't like that difficult child is allowed to hunt but refuses to say no to her child who does not have the supervision that difficult child has in handling guns. Her son and a gun do not mix. He does not have a respect for anything. There is a kid that difficult child bowls with that I asked his dad about possibly letting him join the Jr Rifle club. I would trust this kid. The dad said no because he has an older brother who would not be a good canidate to shoot a gun and the parents knew that whatever they let their easy child do, they would have a hard time with their difficult child who would not be able to. Even though you do not use your own guns at the club, the parents did not want to introduce their difficult child to that activity if even through his brother since he would then feel like he could handle a gun and maybe help himself to one at a friend's or relative's home. Good parents - looking at the whole picture! I did not grow up in a hunting family but husband did. He hunts and fishes so of course his son will also. It really does make a difference if the person grows up with responsible gun owners. My dad did own a gun but I don't know that I really knew where he kept it. It was brought out only once that I remember. However, even though he did not hunt, he taught us girls to respect a gun and to stay safe during hunting season. Even though no one was suppose to be on our property to hunt, we were to beware of the possibility of a hunter during November and were not allowed in the woods. We also wore orange at the edge of the woods during hunting season. Better to introduce a child to the responsibility of a gun at a young age when he or she is more apt to respect the rules of gun safety than to wait until they are appeared to be old enough to hunt on their own and handed a gun without previous experience. [/QUOTE]
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