re: My daughter turns nine tomorrow, we're thinking about taking her..

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This is so crazy. Why does a 9 year kid need to be by guns. Just because parents are gun nuts this i sick

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Trying to translate to English. If I did so successfully, then you're saying that a 9 year old has no business being around guns.

I couldn't disagree more. Children are inquisitive by nature and guns have a mystique about them that kids find hard to resist. The easiest and best way to remove that mystique is to introduce them in a controlled, safe environment*. At 9, I had been hunting with a shotgun for a couple of years was in the process of transitioning from a .410 single shot to a semi-automatic Browning light 20. I knew very well what guns could do, they held no mystery, and thus they weren't treated like toys.


*What happened here is the exact opposite of introducing a controlled, safe environment. As many others have said a child that young should have never been given an automatic weapon.