For the people here with kids, you surely understand where I'm coming from on this and maybe I can get a little insight from others here with kids.
Growing up, I was introduced to weapons at a very early age beginning first with a slingshot and eventually upgrading to an old Red Ryder bb gun and eventually shot my first .22 pistol at age 5 which resulted in a small scar on my chin. Oh well, it was a valuable lesson learned to not hold the thing so close to my face. I remember growing up playing cowboys and Indians, cops, etc. and as kids we knew the difference in right and wrong and we knew not to ever actually point a real firearm at someone. It was just common sense added in with a little reinforcement from my father. Well here is where I am clueless as to what society is feeding our next generation and if anyone thinks I'm overreacting, say so.
My son is four years old and is in that "creative" phase in his youth and loves to build things with blocks and such. Being as I was raised hunting, fishing and learning the proper ways to handle firearms, I see it only fit to pass on what I've learned to my children. My son has seen my rifles, pistols and shotguns and has maybe even touched them a few times. So with that being said, my son is very creative when it comes to building blocks and has recently taken up the gunsmithing hobby and builds almost any kind of weapon you can imagine with blocks. And with every weapon coming complete with its very own scope, I must say he is pretty awesome at building guns out of blocks. My wife and I think it's pretty funny and we teach him not to ever point a weapon, real or fake, at another person. Well when I picked my son up from daycare yesterday, the teacher informed me that my son had been building weapons out of blocks and that we needed to try to work with him on this "issue" at home. To which I responded "what issue?" I'm not sure if that was the correct response but the point of my post is "what the hell happened to society!?" My son cant even build a toy gun out of blocks without it being frowned upon? Any child can throw on a laser tag vest, go out and pretend to shoot each other with Their laser gun, but building a toy gun is somehow irresponsible. I just dont get it. What happened to learning things the hard way and if you mess up you pay for it when you get home? I completely understand that times are changing and things will never be as they once were but I should be able to trust my own son to know the difference between toy guns and real guns. Sorry, i just got a little irritated with the whole situation and thought I would post what happened here just to see what kind of responses I would get about it. *rant off*
Growing up, I was introduced to weapons at a very early age beginning first with a slingshot and eventually upgrading to an old Red Ryder bb gun and eventually shot my first .22 pistol at age 5 which resulted in a small scar on my chin. Oh well, it was a valuable lesson learned to not hold the thing so close to my face. I remember growing up playing cowboys and Indians, cops, etc. and as kids we knew the difference in right and wrong and we knew not to ever actually point a real firearm at someone. It was just common sense added in with a little reinforcement from my father. Well here is where I am clueless as to what society is feeding our next generation and if anyone thinks I'm overreacting, say so.
My son is four years old and is in that "creative" phase in his youth and loves to build things with blocks and such. Being as I was raised hunting, fishing and learning the proper ways to handle firearms, I see it only fit to pass on what I've learned to my children. My son has seen my rifles, pistols and shotguns and has maybe even touched them a few times. So with that being said, my son is very creative when it comes to building blocks and has recently taken up the gunsmithing hobby and builds almost any kind of weapon you can imagine with blocks. And with every weapon coming complete with its very own scope, I must say he is pretty awesome at building guns out of blocks. My wife and I think it's pretty funny and we teach him not to ever point a weapon, real or fake, at another person. Well when I picked my son up from daycare yesterday, the teacher informed me that my son had been building weapons out of blocks and that we needed to try to work with him on this "issue" at home. To which I responded "what issue?" I'm not sure if that was the correct response but the point of my post is "what the hell happened to society!?" My son cant even build a toy gun out of blocks without it being frowned upon? Any child can throw on a laser tag vest, go out and pretend to shoot each other with Their laser gun, but building a toy gun is somehow irresponsible. I just dont get it. What happened to learning things the hard way and if you mess up you pay for it when you get home? I completely understand that times are changing and things will never be as they once were but I should be able to trust my own son to know the difference between toy guns and real guns. Sorry, i just got a little irritated with the whole situation and thought I would post what happened here just to see what kind of responses I would get about it. *rant off*
