Well this should go over well with your friend.
I've never been one to much give a hoot what other people thought, much less when it applied to me. Hence the "names" I'm referred to.
See I came home from being born and there was a loaded handgun next to crib. My gun, granted at the time I had other priorites and needs.
I was taught to shoot, safety rules and the whole bit as a wee brat. Yes MY gun was always loaded, as was the house gun...I knew where they were kept and I knew and observed the rules.
Yes I toted a gun as a kid , be it on foot, my bike to go shoot accross the way where safe to hunt, plink , whatever. I was raised in the city, but there was an area nearby safe and fine for this.
Attitudes of LEO, People, Media, Politicians, schools...etc were different. Yep My gun went with me ,mom and the sibs if we were out and about, in the car, going shopping, to the park.
It was what one did, I was a kid, we did not have pieces of paper "saying we could carry". Folks carried - all ages, all genders.
I as a kid used MY gun when the front door was knocked in and being the eldest sib and parents out running errands...well...I was raised "right".
I have always had a firearm on person or in vehicle. I did NOT get a pc of permission paper until some years ago. they were not available in my state. I did not rush out to get one - when the legislature changed stuff aorund here.
See my thinking has always been, there is document over 200yrs old - says I can. Only reason I did secure one... finally...hell folks ain't being raised right. LEO, Politicians Schools, and whatnot got folks thinking the gummit gonna take of them. They obviously never heard about that other dealie called the Second Amendment.
So to be "legal" in some folks "eyes" now-a-days I have multiple pcs of paper.
Responsiblity : I never knew there was a minimum or maxiumum age dealie. I'm 49, been saying "screw the rules of normalacy" , "some rules need breaking" since ...whenever it was I learned to talk.
I tell folks you get yourself killed because the gummit didn't take care of you- don't come running and whining to me. Don't care if you are family- I got something planned on the day of your funeral.
I don't argue, but I make no bones about how I feel to those who try to argue. I say my piece - Sorry man, and I walk off.
Now a person wants to learn to shoot, get a CCW, whatever - I'm avail.
Getting older and I ain't got time to waste on stupid folks.