I think this tale will amuse some of you and give hope to others - maybe. Any Anti will probably choke and gag:
My eldest granddaughter is two and a half years old. She knows I'm a shooter and has seen and handled my guns when I'm around. She's been instructed very carefully never to touch unless I permit it and she obeys that rule. She has watched me on numerous occasions shoot most of my weapons out at her house (where her father and I built a small shooting range).
Anyway last week she was spending the night with us. Her and my wife were in the bedroom watching TV. It was a very, very windy night with a 3/4 moon. There are trees and bushes outside our bedroom window. The bright moon shining thru the tree branches cast some pretty weird looking shadows on the ceiling. That combined with the noises of the wind put the idea into my GD's head that there were monsters on the ceiling and something needed to be done to make them go away.
So what does she do? Climbs off the bed and runs into my play room where I was playing on the computer and says, "Paw Paw - shoot monsters". My initial reaction was to play along... I had my Sig P220 sitting next to me so I dropped the mag and ejected the chambered round to make it safe and she says, "No Paw Paw - get big gun - shoot monsters" and heads over to where my AR-15 is stashed in it's hard case and never touching it pointed to it (close by were a Win M94, a Saiga Rifle, a Marlin 25 and a double barreled shotgun). "Big GUN, Paw Paw! Shoot monsters with Big GUN!", still pointing at the case with the AR-15.
My wife thought that was really cool, so did I - but it made me wonder if two year olds don't know more than we give them credit for? I'm also pretty sure she won't grow up to be an ANTI and probably won't ever be undergunned.
NOTE: For those wondering I didn't uncase the AR and wander into the bedroom pretending to shoot monsters. Both my wife and I explained to her the shadows weren't monsters. I made shadow puppets on the wall to show her and that settled the issue.
My eldest granddaughter is two and a half years old. She knows I'm a shooter and has seen and handled my guns when I'm around. She's been instructed very carefully never to touch unless I permit it and she obeys that rule. She has watched me on numerous occasions shoot most of my weapons out at her house (where her father and I built a small shooting range).
Anyway last week she was spending the night with us. Her and my wife were in the bedroom watching TV. It was a very, very windy night with a 3/4 moon. There are trees and bushes outside our bedroom window. The bright moon shining thru the tree branches cast some pretty weird looking shadows on the ceiling. That combined with the noises of the wind put the idea into my GD's head that there were monsters on the ceiling and something needed to be done to make them go away.
So what does she do? Climbs off the bed and runs into my play room where I was playing on the computer and says, "Paw Paw - shoot monsters". My initial reaction was to play along... I had my Sig P220 sitting next to me so I dropped the mag and ejected the chambered round to make it safe and she says, "No Paw Paw - get big gun - shoot monsters" and heads over to where my AR-15 is stashed in it's hard case and never touching it pointed to it (close by were a Win M94, a Saiga Rifle, a Marlin 25 and a double barreled shotgun). "Big GUN, Paw Paw! Shoot monsters with Big GUN!", still pointing at the case with the AR-15.
My wife thought that was really cool, so did I - but it made me wonder if two year olds don't know more than we give them credit for? I'm also pretty sure she won't grow up to be an ANTI and probably won't ever be undergunned.
NOTE: For those wondering I didn't uncase the AR and wander into the bedroom pretending to shoot monsters. Both my wife and I explained to her the shadows weren't monsters. I made shadow puppets on the wall to show her and that settled the issue.
