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Date Posted: 14:46:15 04/12/03 Sat
Author: «șTone Caponeș»
Author Host/IP: 1Cust220.tnt1.coos-bay.or.da.uu.net / 67.225.118.220
Subject: Re: well you have a point in all of that...
In reply to: KSMoTO 's message, "well you have a point in all of that..." on 14:38:34 04/12/03 Sat

>i myself..read the last posts i made...
>
>but this all goes back to the cultural differences as
>you said before..

That is true. I live in an area where about 1/2 of the trucks you see have a gun in a gunrack mounted on the back window inside the cab of the truck. Hunting is a big sport, as is sport shooting and such. I used to go small fowl hunting (quail, grouse, pheasant) when I was 16, and I'd walk through the middle of town carrying my shotgun (I lived on the southern part of town and the area I hunted was to the northwest and was only accessible by a bridge that was on our town's main road). This wasn't a big deal, people didn't look at me weird and the cops just waved. That is the culture around here.

Children learn gun safety, respect and shooting at a young age. When I was in 2nd grade (about age 8 or 9), a friend and I used to take our .22s out and shoot digger squirrels (they tear up fields and if cattle step in the holes they make they can break legs) on our own. This is common. I was pretty responsible as a kid. My children aren't going to automatically be entitled to this when they are 8, it will depend on how responsible I see them as. I first began shooting guns at about age 4, I learned on a .22 with my father there to watch and help, and my kids will learn the same way.

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