New generation of gun owners...

[Jackel]

i remember growing up, i went to the sportsman's store to buy some .22 ammo and there was a gang of kids from my class there. They were looking at the handguns, asking to try out a 1911. at the time i was 15 and the store owner knew me and my dad and there was no problem buying the ammo. then while looking at the fishing tackle the store owner refuses to let them buy the gun. there was a big argument over why i was aloud to buy the ammo and they couldn't.

what they didnt understand was that if they got interested in things like hunting and the shooting sports, instead of TV and video games, he would even give them a discount.

i guess times don't change. 

[Timothy]

Some, if not most of us "old fellas" grew up with firearms and from a very early age, began hunting with our fathers.  I know personally that out of the 70 or 80 homes in my close knit neighborhood, you were in the minority if there were NOT any guns in the home.  The Japanese were right in the 40's when they assumed "there is a gun behind every blade of grass"...

Gun ownership wasn't a mystery, it was a way of life and that way of life has been minimized considerably.  It's found in vast parts of this country today but as TW said, the family demographic has changed dramatically. 

Technology and all of its wonders can have adverse effects on a society and kids sitting on a couch playing whatever the video game of the time are NOT outside enjoying the better things in life.  My kid never played them for no other reason that I couldn't buy them for her.  She reads books, insatiably to the point of two or three a week and when I mentioned this to an associate some years back, I was asked..."what is she, a retard?" 

It's that mindset that is f#&king this country up to the fair thee well!  Like the statement "there are no bad dogs, only bad owners"....some people should not be raising children.  Don't take that the wrong way, there was a time when I thought I had no business being a father but, it worked out OK for me and my daugter is a grown woman now, reads books as fast as she buys them, owns her own Sig Sauer, shotgun and Hoyt bow and can almost outshoot her old man!

[Jackel]

must be doing alright if she shoots a hoyt.

my boy is starting to play video games now and i think im winning with the trips to the range.

may even get him a .22

[Timothy]

must be doing alright if she shoots a hoyt.

That is something she DOES outshoot me with.....friggin deadly with that pink Hoyt bow....30-40 yards putting 5 arrows in a 1.5" to 2" circle....amazing!

[philw]

Put in a way they can't argue with, point out that just because they can kick but on "Need 4 Speed" doesn't mean they can drive.

try and tell them that though 

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[fightingquaker13]

That is something she DOES outshoot me with.....friggin deadly with that pink Hoyt bow....30-40 yards putting 5 arrows in a 1.5" to 2" circle....amazing!

Damn! I can't do that with my black hawk, hell on a bad day, I'm hard pressed to do it with an AR shooting off hand. That is some serious shooting with a bow at 40 yards. You should be proud.
FQ13