The boy, that the hunt - Kids & Guns

Kids and Guns ------ I'm likely to get negative feedback on this too, but so be it. Shortly before sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner I read the local paper and came across an article entitled "How young is too young to be hunting?" The newspaper had a picture of a boy, 6 years, a .223 caliber rifle with scope. He was dressed all in camouflage. The article talked about this guy killed his first deer when he was five years, with aShot by his .223-caliber rifle. The boy was thrilled when he spoke to reporters.

"I turned right behind the front shoulder. He dropped right in his footsteps," said the boy. This child is four to six feet tall and weighs 50 pounds. He is a good student that the responsibility for the children deserve an award for this year. Kindergarten!

But I'd rather be hunting. "I like it," he said. "Shooting a gun and shot the animals and kill them."

Articlecontinues on an eight-year-old made headlines last month by firing the first black bear to speak of the season. This was in Maryland and there is no age limit for hunting. You have to drive up to sixteen or in most countries, eighteen, a car, but you can use a .223 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight to shoot five years. Now I have to say that although I am not a hunter, I'm not against hunting. I'm not against guns. I have in yourself. After all, it is legal to carry a concealedWeapon in Florida (It 's a matter of national pride that we once again by a fire in one disk!) But I shudder when I think about five or six years and in the woods with a .223-caliber rifle, although he the fact that his father may be an experienced hunter. A .223-caliber rifle can kill someone or something a mile away. Also, as you can see that the level of maturity and responsibility of an old and six years are such that there are no weapons in the woods has been learned in the forest whenthe child begins to mature?

Yes, the federal government has spent a lot of money for a study, he said. "Guns do not turn children into criminals," This study found that the best way to reduce gun violence is to buy a gun and teach them how to use it responsibly. Give me a break!

Do not forget the weapons are not regulated consumer products. In Texas, guns, killing six children and young people every week of every school year. I personally think that there are weapons and childrenvolatile mix. Between 1996 and 2000, 1541 children died in Texas of armed force and for each child who died four more went to the emergency room for gun injuries. Six out of ten children of suicides are completed with guns. And that's just in Texas.

At the end of my rant and indignation for a child of five years with a .223-caliber rifle, I would place a project called "Lion & Lamb Links". This was a study that asked "What do you think your pre-high school would demanddo if he or she is a real weapon ---- found after repeatedly warned not to touch a gun. "The results of this project are shocking.

First, a police officer has been placed in a class of 60 children. His message was clear and precise. "--- Do not touch the guns are deadly and dangerous. If you see a gun, leave the area. Tell an adult." The children were asked to repeat his words, and she was able to answer your questions. They were later disarmed left alone with the weapons and picked up most of the childrenthem and shot everything in sight. This was reported by Hardy in the NY Times.

The second study with another group of children took five days. The children were trained their rifles, but also to make decisions, how to resist peer pressure and dangerous objects such as toys are different. The results were the same. If left alone, the children began to play with guns as a group. Most six year old could tell the difference between toy gunsand the real weapons, but have played with them anyway.

She would ask your child to play with a weapon, although it has been trained to hunt in the woods? If your six year old avoid the maturity necessary to have knowledge of something as lethal weapon?

I apologize in advance with friends my gun dealer. But I must say, I know hunting very nervous in the forest, there were 5, 6, 7 and 8 years of age are in the woods with loaded guns. In fact, I do not find nearForest during the hunting season.