Impureclient
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I'm just curious as what opinions are about children being in this site? This site may be a "family" site but I assumed that meant to keep the language clean and so forth in case they wander on or are looking over our shoulder when we peruse in here. There is a lot information on here and some of it is not G rated. Definitely not proper for a young one depending on how you raise your kids. My son is 11 and shoots with me but, if he ever came on this site looking for a SHTF gun and didn't come to me for that kind of heavy question I'd be worried. I understand that not all kids are on the same intelligence level and some are much more mature than others.
I really don't want to hear about those one or two kids that are capable of handling adult situations. I'm more curious as to whether we should be allowing the other 99% of them chime in here while quite possibly their parents have no idea what they are being told by other adults. Now I'm sure a lot of people are going to say it's up to their parents to watch what they do. If that is the case then why do we have moderators? To watch over us right? Even though you yourself may buy your child guns, with your money and not the child's of course as that would be a straw purchase, aren't we assuming too much?
Off the subject a little but, some people should also be more careful what they type on here concerning straw purchases as anybody can see what they plan on doing...hint, hint.
How do we know a child on here has his/her parents permission to be conversing with adults about tools used to kill? Now I already know that they also may be interested in hunting or competition but, as far as I know they need to have an adult buy their gun and I would imagine that more than likely that adult would be the one that the child is shooting with. So if that child had questions that are gun related shouldn't that child go to that adult and find an answer? Then if the adult couldn't come up with an answer for that child, then he has with a couple clicks of a mouse, twelve thousand other adults to talk to about it on here.
I'm trying to be as vague as possible here without pointing any fingers. I'm just trying to look at this site as an outsider. As an "Anti" if you will. Would giving children a place to collect information as if they were an adult, about tools that kill, go over with any of them. We all know how they twist things until white means black and forward is backwards.
I don't know why I'm getting my panties in such a knot here but, I have a sick feeling in my stomach that we should play this one safer.
I hope I didn't stray too much out of what is considered off topic. This is gun related, in the general gun discussions forum and is aimed at everybody, not just moderators, so it didn't seem fit to put it under technical support.
I really don't want to hear about those one or two kids that are capable of handling adult situations. I'm more curious as to whether we should be allowing the other 99% of them chime in here while quite possibly their parents have no idea what they are being told by other adults. Now I'm sure a lot of people are going to say it's up to their parents to watch what they do. If that is the case then why do we have moderators? To watch over us right? Even though you yourself may buy your child guns, with your money and not the child's of course as that would be a straw purchase, aren't we assuming too much?
Off the subject a little but, some people should also be more careful what they type on here concerning straw purchases as anybody can see what they plan on doing...hint, hint.
How do we know a child on here has his/her parents permission to be conversing with adults about tools used to kill? Now I already know that they also may be interested in hunting or competition but, as far as I know they need to have an adult buy their gun and I would imagine that more than likely that adult would be the one that the child is shooting with. So if that child had questions that are gun related shouldn't that child go to that adult and find an answer? Then if the adult couldn't come up with an answer for that child, then he has with a couple clicks of a mouse, twelve thousand other adults to talk to about it on here.
I'm trying to be as vague as possible here without pointing any fingers. I'm just trying to look at this site as an outsider. As an "Anti" if you will. Would giving children a place to collect information as if they were an adult, about tools that kill, go over with any of them. We all know how they twist things until white means black and forward is backwards.
I don't know why I'm getting my panties in such a knot here but, I have a sick feeling in my stomach that we should play this one safer.
I hope I didn't stray too much out of what is considered off topic. This is gun related, in the general gun discussions forum and is aimed at everybody, not just moderators, so it didn't seem fit to put it under technical support.