Would you let your 11 year old do target shooting?

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Anonymous wrote:No because I’m not trashy.

It's an Olympic sport. Ignorance is trashy.

Plenty of things are high level "sports" and are still trashy. See: NASCAR.

Guns are trashy. People who like guns are trashy.

NASCAR isn't an Olympic sport, for good reason. Super weird to think the biathlon is trashy!

I don’t think it’s trashy but it being considered a sport doesn’t make it something I would encourage.

America has a gun violence problem. It only took other countries one mass shooting to change the gun culture and eliminate gun violence. Canada is making great progress in controlling guns. Southern American states are doing the opposite by trying to ensure everyone down there is carrying a loaded weapon.

And why is gun safety important if you don’t own a gun?

America has a problem with criminal psychopaths. Criminals commit violence, not inanimate objects. It is pointless to attempt to compare US firearm laws to other countries, and a delusional fantasy to think some kind of magic magnet can suddenly make every gun in existence in the US suddenly disappear.

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I'd never let my son learn to handle a sport gun. I keep him safe at home shooting his friends in the head in Call of Duty.

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Yes, but only after I carefully verified (1) their gun safety training curriculum/methods for the kids and also (2) their gun safety procedures for practice shooting and (3) their gun storage and retrieval process from the gun locker.

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Maybe. Is your kid just starting off in middle school? It might be worth saying no this year and watching what the sport is really like and how the school handles it, and revisiting next year if your kid is still really serious about wanting to do it and if you're comfortable with what you observe this year in watching from afar.

I don't think it's a hard no, but I would want to have a lot of questions answered.

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My sons shoot at summer camp each summer.
This did not turn them into redneck idiots.

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Anonymous wrote:My sons shoot at summer camp each summer.
This did not turn them into redneck idiots.

Shooting at camp is not sport target shooting.

[Anonymous]

I think if they are interested in it that's fine. There's a huge gap between joining this team and being a 2A fanatic. Plus, if they are interested in shooting, this will teach them gun safety.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My sons shoot at summer camp each summer.
This did not turn them into redneck idiots.

Shooting at camp is not sport target shooting.

What is it then?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My sons shoot at summer camp each summer.
This did not turn them into redneck idiots.

Shooting at camp is not sport target shooting.

What is it then?

Shooting at a target. It's not trap and skeet.

[Anonymous]

It depends on their maturity. We took our son when he was 13 for target shooting.

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where are you at? Not the DMV..

[Anonymous]

All citizens should learn how to shoot

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I would, but I'm from a country with mandatory military/civil service and functionally zero private gun ownership.

So, it is normal in my country for kids to learn to shoot in physical education class and I know it is possible to enjoy target shooting without becoming a gun fanatic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sons shoot at summer camp each summer.
This did not turn them into redneck idiots.

Shooting at camp is not sport target shooting.

What is it then?

Shooting at a target. It's not trap and skeet.

No one said it was the same thing.
Do you have a point? Is one of them "trashy" or "MAGA" or whatever people are afraid of?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All citizens should learn how to shoot

Um, no.