Reply #43: My region is big on outdoor sports. [View All]

[LWolf]

Hunting, fishing, skiing, white water rafting, hiking, rock-climbing, we have it all. Most of the kids growing up here attend gun safety courses and many hunt with their families. I'm glad they have gun safety courses; it only makes sense, if they are going to have guns in the house. Most take the course at 11 or 12. A colleague was just talking about this last spring; he waited until his son was 14, 2 years "behind" everyone else, because he wanted the extra 2 years of maturity, and hasn't regretted it. What he regretted was the number of 5 and 6 yo kids in the course with his son.

How anyone thinks a kid that young could possibly be mature enough for "gun safety" is beyond me.

Marketing? It's reprehensible, and I wish there was a way to curb it.