Quote Originally Posted by rbeau30 View Post
I can never take my life too seriously.

I think that the lack of firearm safety in youth, and the practice of firearm safety while supervised by competent parents/guardians, etc is a big issue.


I was shooting competition at age 11 with structured rules and ranges. Safety was ENGRAINED in me. There was no there was no other way to handle a firearm without observing core values that the rules of the ranges and my grandfather taught me.
^^^ This. There is also a side note here. I actually have won people, who were terrified of guns, over through my safe handling of firearms. I explain every rule all the time. My father-in-law asked me if I could check out an old rifle of his. While doing so, his daughter got very uneasy she explained to me that she knew a kid who shot himself with his dad's "unloaded" gun. I began to explain to her one of the four cardinal rules to guns: Treat every gun as in it were loaded. She began to see that the muzzle was pointed in a safe direction, that my finger was off the trigger. I took the bolt out even. After a few minutes of seeing me handle the rifle, she began to relax and even ask me a little bit about guns.

Any time I go to a gun store I feel like I see people breaking the firearm rules, it's not funny, it's upsetting. I'm surprised I don't see more places where the firearm safety rules are plastered on the wall somewhere.