has anyone ever seen a teenage character use a gun in a movie/tv show?

[mtnbkr]

"That 70s Show" had a hunting episode. The doofus on the show was constantly mishandling his rifle, but Red and his son showed plenty of responsible gun handling. I don't remember about the other two guys.

Chris

 

[geekWithA.45]

If you scroll the clock back to the early 60's and sooner, there's plenty of examples.

 

[zahc]

The topic starter must not play many late 90s console RPGs...lol.

 

[Dr.Rob]

BuffyThe Vampire Slayer had an episode where the hell mouth was opening, everyone left school, ran home and BROKE INTO their parent's gun cabinets, etc to save the world from an army of invading baddies.

Sadly, this episode was suppoed to air around the time of the Columbine shootings... it finally did air but only once.

 

[pete f]

a really bad movie called :"band of the hand" Steven Segal teaches a bunch of high school kids how to fight back against the druglords.

 

[Bruce H]

Wierd Science

 

[HankB]

Mel Gibson's The Patriot was already mentioned. Great example.

There was a John Wayne movie - The Cowboys - in which Wayne was forced to take a bunch of young kids on a cattle drive. IIRC, rustlers killed The Duke, and the kids took the guns out of the chuck wagon and "took care" of the bad guys. (Much to the dismay of the movie reviewers.)

There was a made-for-TV movie starring Gerald McRaney (of Simon and Simon and Major Dad) in which a kid uses a lever-action .22 rifle to kill an intruder. What started out as a good movie degenerated into the kid having weepy regrets and almost flipping out in the aftermath.

One of the (very) few episodes I saw of the animated show King of the Hill had the fat little kid and his dad shooting in competition as a "father/son" activity.

 

[MrAcheson]

King of the Hill has a fair bit of father/son hunting and shooting on it. But it's a cartoon.

Heathers has a fair bit of firearms use in it, although none of it is especially positive.

 

[buzz_knox]

a really bad movie called :"band of the hand" Steven Segal teaches a bunch of high school kids how to fight back against the druglords.

Actually, it was Stephen Lang.

 

[gbelleh]

Terminator 2. Young John Connor handles guns responsibly.

There's a movie called "Dream Machine" where Corey Haim wrestles a gun away from a home invader and shoots him.

Weird Science was good (until he had the ND). Not to mention the brother bonking everyone on the head with the shotgun.

 

[Matt G]

There's a rather heartbreaking scene in Breakdown (extremely irritating Kurt Russell flick) in which a kid of about 10 is wielding a .30-30 lever action during a standoff over his daddy (who, unknown to him is a murderer, a kidnapper, and a hijacker) in the family home. The kid says that his daddy told him to kill any intruders, and Kurt Russell, holding a gun on his dad in the kitchen, certainly qualifies. At that moment, two things should have happened-- the kid should have shot the intruder, and the Kurt Russell character (whose wife will die in minutes if he doesn't get back to her) should have shot the kid. Neither answer would have been a happy one, but from the standpoint of each character, each should have done his duty.

 

[Nitram68]

That one that took place in the 50's where a kid was a rocketeer, building rockets with his friends for a science project/convention. One scene had the kids messing around with the rocket and another kids was plinking at an abandoned car with a .22 rifle...

October Sky, I believe is the name....