Interesting question, I grew up around them so I don't really remember feeling like that. I still learn and forget things, relearn and retrain, if that is what you want to call it. I would say it is a life long learning experience.
I will say I had friend whom I grew up with that shot himself with a sidearm that was not working properly. I remember taking a hunters safety course as a teen where one point was made not to use a firearm that wasn't working properly. My friend was the older brother of the kid I took the course with, so we both knew better.
My point is, don't learn lessons the hard way while on your trip to old age. It was hard to make the call to his father, a man I grew up respecting, that I brought his son to the hospital because we were stupid. In the end only my friends' pride was hurt. Funny thing was, the father knew me and could read the tone in my voice concerning the matter and knew eveything was well in hand; the only question the man asked me was, "was he quick drawing?"
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