I'm just trying to understand your position on this, that's all. Since cars were originally developed for transportation, like you say guns were originally developed for killing people, you also seem to be saying that modified cars are good for other purposes. Can I assume by modified, you mean like a sports car, which has been redesigned so that the fun of driving it is the main purpose for it, not primarily for transportation? It seems you are saying this is ok. Am I hearing you correctly? So what I don't understand is; It seems that, for example, driving a car for something other than it's original purpose when it was invented generations ago, such as sport or racing is OK with you for people who like to do that (even if you yourself might not do that). You don't seem to want to begrudge others of this pleasure. So then why do you seek to begrudge others of the pleasure of legally and morally using a gun for sport? You can't say it's because Jesus never did it because there are countless things we have or do today that Jesus didn't, but that aren't wrong. So I don't understand your position.
I understand you personally don't want to have a gun and use it for any purposes, which is no problem. I heard you are in Germany, and I don't know what the gun laws are there, but if you were here in the United States you would be free to make that choice. So why do you feel others shouldn't be able to choose? And why do you feel that others who are in a position to legally do so shouldn't teach their kids about guns so their kids will know how to be safe around them as well as develop a skill that can be shared with family and friends, much like playing baseball or going fishing with dad? THAT'S the experience of most kids who's parents teach them about gun use and safety, not killing people! The idea that if a kid knows how to safely use a gun, that kid is bound to then go out and shoot one of his friends or some other person has absolutely no basis in fact. At least not in American culture or in other free cultures. The way I'm seeing it so far is that just because you don't personally like the sports of hunting, skeet, target shooting, or whatever, that you wish to dictate that no one else should do these things in safe and legal ways and certainly shouldn't be able to involve their family members and kids. But that doesn't seem like you, so I'm sure I'm misunderstanding. Please help me understand.
Amen brother! I've been into guns my whole life, and have never shot anyone. I use them for many other purposes than killing. I can still remember those hunting trips with the kids, Tomasz shooting his first Elk, how proud he was, that he fed the family for months! The togetherness and memories of sitting around the campfire, talking guns and hunting and family. A lot of good pictures too. The sense of camaraderie and family togetherness, wow!
The evenings of cleaning guns together, teaching them how they work and so forth, teaching them how to reload their own bullets and about ballistics. This is some good quality time brothers and sisters. Geez, tinkering with guns and ammo kept me out of a lot of trouble while I was married. I'd be down in the reloading room instead of out at the beer joint being tempted.
I'm not big into sport shooting, but going up shooting with friends and family many times turned into a competition of sorts. Everyone throw 5 or 10 bucks into the coffee can and winner take all, or winner 2/3, 2nd 1/3, something like that. Scoring targets is easy, high score wins. I even have a skeet throwing machine and got the kids shotguns, and they just love that! Dusting a clay pigeon in the air is exciting. I'm not very good at skeet shooting, but pretty good amongst my circle of friends. My (ex) wife was a better shot than I was. Women who shoot are like that. It's like, they have no ego obstacle to overcome or something and just do it. My mom was better than my dad, and my wife was better than me, and so are other friends wives who shoot. Weird, but comforting.
I had my wife hitting gallon milk jugs of water at 100 yards with iron sights and a 5.5" 44 Mag with full house loads. She could hit it usually 4 out of 6 times, and the misses were still in there close! :yes
Investment and collection. Family heirlooms to pass down. Family togetherness. Competition. Hunting. Insurance. So many reasons to own guns besides killing people.
Teaching kids about guns also teaches honor and discretion, if done with that in mind.
If we don't teach the kids at home about guns, the only other place they can see or learn about how to handle and use them is on television, where even the good guys are reckless and unrealistic. I must've said that to my kids 10,000 times when they were young...this is real, this is not television.
I bought my kids a 4" Ruger Bearcat 22 when they were about 3 years old, to share and learn on. I would help them shoot it at shaken cans of soda pop. When they'd hit it and see the explosion of pop into the air and squeal with glee for hitting it...then, I would go pick up the split can and give it to them and say, fix it, make it better...
Of course they could not, so they would look to me dumbfounded, and I would say, this is real, this is not TV. This is what would happen to your brother or mommy if you shot them...this is real...and they caught on. Praise the Lord!
That's how you do it.
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