Would you let your 11 year old do target shooting?

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What school is this? Tryna see something...

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Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not. I probably wouldn't send my kids to a school that had any sort of shooting team either. We are very anti guns.

Yeah. We know.

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Sure. It’s a tool and a sport like this would teach safe and appropriate use.

I’m not afraid of guns, I’m afraid of their accessibility to people who shouldn’t have them.

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Hell no. Not unless you want to be like these criminally negligent parents whose kid misfired a gun at the shooting range instructor and blew his brains out.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html

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Anonymous wrote:Rising 6th grade DD is desperate to join the school target shooting team. I'm not sure what to think...it seems a bit weird, culturally. I am open to others' thoughts, though!

We are very anti- personal gun ownership in the house, but DS loves riflery at summer camp - has excelled and is an expert marksman. He's very aware of our stance vis-a-vis personal gun ownership and respects it, but I think it's great that he has a sense of accomplishment and is an expert at gun safety. Who knows - maybe he'll decide to go to a military academy - or maybe not.

I am glad you are able to support your child if that is what works for your family. Personally, we asked our child to sit out riflery at camp as we are very anti-gun. We also did not sign the riflery waiver. He was able to participate in another activity.

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Anonymous wrote:Rising 6th grade DD is desperate to join the school target shooting team. I'm not sure what to think...it seems a bit weird, culturally. I am open to others' thoughts, though!

We are very anti- personal gun ownership in the house, but DS loves riflery at summer camp - has excelled and is an expert marksman. He's very aware of our stance vis-a-vis personal gun ownership and respects it, but I think it's great that he has a sense of accomplishment and is an expert at gun safety. Who knows - maybe he'll decide to go to a military academy - or maybe not.

I am glad you are able to support your child if that is what works for your family. Personally, we asked our child to sit out riflery at camp as we are very anti-gun. We also did not sign the riflery waiver. He was able to participate in another activity.

PP here - yep - the kids don't have to do riflery - we didn't push one way or the other. He just really likes it, and he's good at it. He also likes alot of other stuff at camp. Camp stresses gun safety to the highest degree - so kid knows way more about gun safety, use, and hunting, than I ever did growing up - and I grew up in the South around guns where we were taught hunting safety in health class (I might be dating myself).

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Anonymous wrote:Rising 6th grade DD is desperate to join the school target shooting team. I'm not sure what to think...it seems a bit weird, culturally. I am open to others' thoughts, though!

We are very anti- personal gun ownership in the house, but DS loves riflery at summer camp - has excelled and is an expert marksman. He's very aware of our stance vis-a-vis personal gun ownership and respects it, but I think it's great that he has a sense of accomplishment and is an expert at gun safety. Who knows - maybe he'll decide to go to a military academy - or maybe not.

I am glad you are able to support your child if that is what works for your family. Personally, we asked our child to sit out riflery at camp as we are very anti-gun. We also did not sign the riflery waiver. He was able to participate in another activity.

PP here - yep - the kids don't have to do riflery - we didn't push one way or the other. He just really likes it, and he's good at it. He also likes alot of other stuff at camp. Camp stresses gun safety to the highest degree - so kid knows way more about gun safety, use, and hunting, than I ever did growing up - and I grew up in the South around guns where we were taught hunting safety in health class (I might be dating myself).

Totally! And the camp we sent our kid to also stresses gun safety to the highest degree. If it did not, we would not be sending him there, even with having him sit out riflery. I sincerely do appreciate your kid liking it and doing well at it. We just chose a different path in this very similar scenario.

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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.

Target shooting is a sport. In fact it is several different sports, including multiple Olympic sports.

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Anonymous wrote:Hell no. Not unless you want to be like these criminally negligent parents whose kid misfired a gun at the shooting range instructor and blew his brains out.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html

+1. Read this. A lot of kids aren’t big enough to handle a gun safely.

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Anonymous wrote:Hell no. Not unless you want to be like these criminally negligent parents whose kid misfired a gun at the shooting range instructor and blew his brains out.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html

I don’t know where you went to law school but having someone instruct a child in the use of firearms is hardly negligence, let alone criminal negligence, on the part of the parents. If anything, it would be the other way around, with the late instructor and/or his employer liable to the parents for the instructor’s negligence.

And “misfired” means the charge (cartridge, shell, etc) in the firearm did not discharge when the trigger was operated and the firing pin, striker, etc., struck the primer or percussion cap or the flint struck the frizzen to ignite the powder in the flash pan. It does not mean a firearm was discharged in an unsafe direction.

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Anonymous wrote:Hell no. Not unless you want to be like these criminally negligent parents whose kid misfired a gun at the shooting range instructor and blew his brains out.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html

+1. Read this. A lot of kids aren’t big enough to handle a gun safely.

If you read the article, you will discover that the 9 yo was shooting an UZI, FFS. A submachine gun.

The article also stated, "Gun experts contacted by CNN on Wednesday said young children should be taught to shoot with single-shot firearms rather than submachine guns." That should be obvious, but whatever.

So OP, unless you're sending your kid to camp run by Israeli commandos (or domestically, militia wackos), it should be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Hell no. Not unless you want to be like these criminally negligent parents whose kid misfired a gun at the shooting range instructor and blew his brains out.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html

I don’t know where you went to law school but having someone instruct a child in the use of firearms is hardly negligence, let alone criminal negligence, on the part of the parents. If anything, it would be the other way around, with the late instructor and/or his employer liable to the parents for the instructor’s negligence.

And “misfired” means the charge (cartridge, shell, etc) in the firearm did not discharge when the trigger was operated and the firing pin, striker, etc., struck the primer or percussion cap or the flint struck the frizzen to ignite the powder in the flash pan. It does not mean a firearm was discharged in an unsafe direction.

Yeah good luck with suing a guy who died because your kid shot him because you were dumb enough to think a kid should handle a deadly weapon.

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Living in this culture there is absolutely not a chance in hell I would raise my kid unable to shoot a gun and unable to understand gun safety. I see gun safety and gun mechanics as important as learning to swim.

No we do not own any guns.

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

Plus 1

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Anonymous wrote:Rising 6th grade DD is desperate to join the school target shooting team. I'm not sure what to think...it seems a bit weird, culturally. I am open to others' thoughts, though!

Knowledge is power. Swim lessons are good, because water can kill you or save you. Gun lessons are good because they teach you how NOT to find a gun and accidentally shoot your friend because you didn’t know how it works. People don’t have to own a gun, or even ever shoot a gun, but please learn about safety.

Learning about fire is also good because fire can kill you or save you. Making your own child ignorant is shortsighted.