well knives kill people too, but im not gonna start cutting everything with a spoon. really never understood why people are against guns? its not like you are gonna ever take them away from the criminals. there are more guns in this country then human beings so its a little late dont you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--K3X6rptE4

hey how'd you get a clip of my grandma? lol like it!

I think it would depend on the maturity and responsibility of the kid we're talking about. I know plenty of "adults" that I wouldn't trust with potato peeler, let alone a gun. I don't think there is a qualifying age that makes it OK to give a kid a gun unless you just want to make sure he/she is tried as an adult when they do something stupid.

well mine has never handled one loaded outside the range so thats a mute point.

You mean moot? Or silent?

If a crazy person walks into a class room with a knife the people can run and the people can overpower the crazy person. If a crazy person walks into the room with the machine gun then the crazy person can kill so many people quickly and efficiently.
I understand hunting rifles and my dad taught me to use a hunting rifle. I can not understand handguns and machine guns for regular people. Handguns and machine guns are not for hunting only are for killing people. People can protect their homes with rifles and I do not think people need machine guns for protecting.

We do have a ban on Assault Weapons here. Well sort of. Im not sure if its lapsed. It was kind of a Clinton era thing.

I can't imagine a kid having a need for an AK-47

update: the kid got his gun. He is 7. He shot the first beer bottle he aimed at. The kid's a natural

You'll shoot your eye out

what i don't get is what has that beer bottle ever done to him?!

i think we need to bring a new twist to this thread. the Recycling twist, that could have been Recycled

thanks to his dad, the kid has a never ending supply of beer bottles to shoot

and ocaisionally, tequila bottles and Jack Daniels bottles

All this reading

Makes me wanna listen to Body Count

I dont see any problem with it as long as he is always supervised of course and he CANT get to it when you arent around. Im sure will teach him all of the proper safety precautions and just make sure he understand that its not a joke or a toy.

i would laugh if his son started using his dads full bottles for target practice.

but unfortunately and of course, he would never get his hands on the gun without his dad being there

at least not until he is 12 and can demonstrate respect and knowledge of the weapon

i had an air rifle at an early "ish" age i was roughly 12 years old

my dad gave me a weapon handling test if you like on it and showed me the dangers of it as well. but by that age i knew what was what . but that was only out the back garden he never let me venture off.

i wouldn't have shot anything anyway, specially not a helpless animal. but put an iraqi infront of my barrel or an Iranian for that fact i wouldnt hesitate.

both of course being terrorist of some sort