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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you mad that YOUR children saw this 6 year old get a shotgun for Christmas and that there was talk of target shooting in front of YOUR kids?

I'm just trying to understand what you think is so outrageous about this father teaching his kid how to target shoot.

Would you appreciate it if your BIL made snarky comments about you taking your kids to see Into the Woods on Christmas day?  [/quote]

If you don't see the problem with a kindergartener being gifted a weapon I can't help you out.

Also, he DID make comments about us leaving.  Neither DH or I said anything about the gun, we just said we had plans to go see the movie as a family.  It was pretty obvious I was uncomfortable with a six-year-old handling a deadly weapon.

He makes PLENTY of comments about DH being effeminate and mocks our interests (reading, art, musicals).[/quote]

It doesn't sound as though he handed the kid a gun and said "Go play!".  He took the kid outside to teach him target shooting.  So, no I don't see anything wrong with him doing that.

Making snarky comments about you wasn't nice.  But you making it so obvious that you did not approve of the gun was not nice, either.

Were your kids at all interested in the gun or interested that their cousin was going to be target shooting?  Did they care?[/quote]

It doesn't sound as anything because WE LEFT before anyone went outside.  I'm sure BIL was outside with him, but was he teaching him appropriately?  Given his track record, probably not.  I am hoping my dad went out their to make sure no one killed themselves.

I don't give a shit what BIL thinks of me, I don't care if it was nice or not that I left.  My concern isn't that BIL thinks I'm nice, it's MY kids and MY family.

My children are 8 and 11, they didn't really care.  My 8-year-old (girl) showed a little interest but was more excited about going to see the movie (we did plan on seeing it tomorrow).  My 11-year-old (boy) has SPD and HATES loud noises and therefor hates guns.  He was freaking out about how loud the gun would be, which just adds to how fucked up my BIL is.[/quote]

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