Strawman.Tero wrote:So we need to teach 8 year olds to "stand your ground" instead of teaching them to lock the gun away.
8-year olds typically are thinking of their constitutional rights all day.
I said nothing whatever about "stand your ground" for eight year-olds. I specifically said that firearms training should be started in first grade and should continue through high school graduation with age-appropriate instruction at each level. The goal is to teach children the truth about firearms (that they don't do anything at all unless operated by a human being) and how to interact safely with firearms, whether they come into contact with them accidentally (as many do) or they are using them for an authorize designated purpose such as hunting or target shooting...or personal defense.
I pointed out that I, along with most of the kids in my generation who lived in rural areas, learned how to properly and safely handle and use firearms as early as age eight, to the extent that we could be trusted to bring our rifles to school on the bus for scheduled marksmanship training. This sort of thing has been the case for centuries. You choose to infantilize all children by making the specious assumption that all eight year olds are incapable of safely operating a firearm and I choose to point out that you are quite simply wrong. Your attitude is almost certainly an artifact of your liberal/progressive/Marxist upbringing and your own infantilization by your schools and government, who are programmed most carefully to indoctrinate you AGAINST firearms because an armed citizenry is anathema to the very concept of liberal/progressive/Marxist political ideology, and therefore the leftist educational systems have undertaken a careful and thorough demonization of firearms in general, an armed citizenry, and specifically the idea that young people are, or may be fully competent to possess and operate firearms, a notion thoroughly disproved by hundreds of years of young people owning and using firearms safely and competently.
