Decide on what is age one has to attain to be considered an adult. At that age a person gets to enjoy all the "perks" of adulthood. Buying/owning a gun, any gun, should not be limited to adults. Somewhere along the line, parents stopped teaching gun safety. In fact teaching gun safety at all became taboo. I tried to no avail to get an "Eddy Eagle" program started in our schools. The idea was continually rejected. I told them that it was a gun safety class. All they heard was "gun"...
I, like many others of my generation, were taught early on the rules of gun safety. Violations, if any, were dealt with swiftly and severly (as were any other vilolations) so we learned quickly. No one gave it a second thought to see me walking through town with my shotgun headed for the woods. I kept that same shotgun in my dorm room at college and the cafeteria ladies fried my squirrels for me. I'd walk down the dorm hallway, get on the elevator, ride down, cross the tracks and I was hunting in five min. I never once entertained the thought of shooting anyone, or anything that I wasn't supposed to shoot. Never crossed my mind. I had been taught NOT to shoot people or things I did not intend to eat.
THAT is what's wrong today, not the age at which a person buys a gun. I've seen old men do stupid things with guns. Age is possibly the worst gage of a persons maturity.
Alan
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