Would you let your 11 year old do target shooting?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, absolutely. I took riflery in summer camp at that age and loved it. It doesn't mean that you have to embrace gun culture.

+1. Same here. Never been compelled to buy a gun or shoot anything live, but those flying clay thingies...

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Yes, if the kid is mentally stable.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes of course. I'm super liberal but i also think shooting is a life skill

How is it a life skill?

It's a tool for providing safety and food. It can also teach discipline, concentration and focus. It can encourage safety and ethics and well as participation in environmental and outdoor education programs.

[Anonymous]

Of course! Guns are awesome and shooting is fun. If she wants to do it, let’s rock and roll. I also was hung ho about my kid (a boy) doing gymnastics when he got excited about it.

Life’s too short. Kids should pursue every little thing they get a little spark about 99% of them will fade away, most very quickly.

And your DD isn’t gonna go Columbine because she’s shooting a .22 in an organized classroom setting. If anything, the opposite.

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No because I’m not trashy.

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Kid went to the range with his scouting troop and had huge fun. Sounds good to me.

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Yes. Great exposure on how to handle guns.

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Anonymous wrote:No because I’m not trashy.

Telling on yourself

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes of course. I'm super liberal but i also think shooting is a life skill

How is it a life skill?

It's a tool for providing safety and food. It can also teach discipline, concentration and focus. It can encourage safety and ethics and well as participation in environmental and outdoor education programs.

Sounds like something you got off of an NRA pamphlet. The problem is Americans have shown that learning how to shoot and take care of a gun does none of the above.

Southern states have a disproportionate amount of gun owners. It also has a disproportionate amount of gun violence.

Too many gun owners have shown the exact opposite. They shoot before they think. They are more fearful of life in general and eventually feel the need to carry a gun everywhere.

Children who learn all about guns might end up hate shooting. Or they might buy into the propaganda of guns providing safety and we have another gun enthusiast in America.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. That’s thee safest place for your daughter to encounter a gun and learn how to handle one. You never know what she may come in contact with. Better that she has knowledge of proper handling techniques.

No. I've been to range and I had no idea how to hold the gun, and I kept forgetting to point the end only one direction.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. That’s thee safest place for your daughter to encounter a gun and learn how to handle one. You never know what she may come in contact with. Better that she has knowledge of proper handling techniques.

No. I've been to range and I had no idea how to hold the gun, and I kept forgetting to point the end only one direction.

So… you’re an idiot who went to a range once, immediately ignored the #1 rule they had just given you, no doubt got reprimanded for it (and likely thrown out), and you’re still carrying that lesson around with you.

Think you just proved PP’s point.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes of course. I'm super liberal but i also think shooting is a life skill

How is it a life skill?

It's a tool for providing safety and food. It can also teach discipline, concentration and focus. It can encourage safety and ethics and well as participation in environmental and outdoor education programs.

Sounds like something you got off of an NRA pamphlet. The problem is Americans have shown that learning how to shoot and take care of a gun does none of the above.

Southern states have a disproportionate amount of gun owners. It also has a disproportionate amount of gun violence.

Too many gun owners have shown the exact opposite. They shoot before they think. They are more fearful of life in general and eventually feel the need to carry a gun everywhere.

Children who learn all about guns might end up hate shooting. Or they might buy into the propaganda of guns providing safety and we have another gun enthusiast in America.

Hahaha no. I'm 4H kid though.
Southern states have a disproportionate amount of poverty through entrenched racist systems and generationsl trauma. That is the number one cause of violence

[Anonymous]

Sure. Why not? It was my son’s favorite activity at camp. If I could’ve found a place nearby, he would’ve done in at home.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes of course. I'm super liberal but i also think shooting is a life skill

How is it a life skill?

It's a tool for providing safety and food. It can also teach discipline, concentration and focus. It can encourage safety and ethics and well as participation in environmental and outdoor education programs.

Sounds like something you got off of an NRA pamphlet. The problem is Americans have shown that learning how to shoot and take care of a gun does none of the above.

Southern states have a disproportionate amount of gun owners. It also has a disproportionate amount of gun violence.

Too many gun owners have shown the exact opposite. They shoot before they think. They are more fearful of life in general and eventually feel the need to carry a gun everywhere.

Children who learn all about guns might end up hate shooting. Or they might buy into the propaganda of guns providing safety and we have another gun enthusiast in America.

People with concealed carry licenses commit crime about 1/6 the rate of police.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you talking riflery like at summer camp using elementary rifles?

Are are you talking some gun range with people pulling out their AK 47s?

Regardless, I'd probably rather my kid not do a school club on riflery. Sumemr camp maybe I would ok. School club? Who teaches it? Sounds weird

Trap and skeet. Geez, people.