"The Speech" for a 5-year-old grandaughter

[rattletrap1970]

We never got a speech, we were just instructed from an early age not to touch guns.. Ever. You didn't dare. When I was about 7 my Dad took me to a quarry with a Stevens Crack Shot 26 and a Marlin 336 .30-30 (both of which I still have). I was shown what they can do and why it is so important to be responsible.
When my sister was younger (in her teens) after I moved out my dad taught her how to take apart and reassemble his Firestar .45 blindfolded. He got such a kick out of that. I miss that.

 

[scott5]

Hello all,
I was driving by the border post at Teec Nos Pos, ARIZONA a few months ago when a Super Trooper was there, and I asked him if he had a lazer on his pistol.

He got on his high horse about gun safety and told me to buy a handgun and teach my wife and children all about it so there will be no mystery about guns.
He said kids find guns so if they know all about what damage they can do and how loud they are then there is no mystery about them.

Hey that works for me.

 

[Ridgerunner665]

I've never given any speeches (not saying you're wrong to do it though...just different means to the same end)...

My kids (3 and 17) are so used to seeing guns its nothing for them to get excited about, they think its normal. Its hard for them not to think that, I'm always doing something with my guns (cleaning, shooting, reloading, working on them, etc.). I have a whole room full of them.

My 3 year old sometimes sticks one of his toy guns down inside his waist band and puts his shirt over it a carries on about his business of playing or whatever...LOL

This one won't be corrupted with anti gun BS when he gets to school (he will be home schooled after 3rd grade anyway) He was 2 in this picture...


He's 3...and when he picks up his toy guns, he checks to see if they are loaded.

I've never worried about them telling anybody, I don't care if they do...I don't subscribe to the idea that it must be a secret. I live in a small town, everybody knows me, knows I have more than a few guns, and that I always have one on me. I realize that won't work for many areas though...

He got on his high horse about gun safety and told me to buy a handgun and teach my wife and children all about it so there will be no mystery about guns.
He said kids find guns so if they know all about what damage they can do and how loud they are then there is no mystery about them.

Truer words were never spoken...teach them, and then they will know the truth. Curiousity has killed just as many kids as it has cats.

 

[paintballdude902]

very good speech

i only have 1 niece(out of 5 nieces and nephews) that has been exposed to guns. not because my families are full of antis they are just not interested in guns. my sister and her husband have some where in the neighborhood of 75 guns. there are about a dozen pistols locked in a glass topped coffee table and my 3 year old niece doesnt pay them any attention. he has fired my .22 short revolver so she knows what they are but they are just common place to her and she knows she isn't allowed to tough them.

i plan to steal my oldest nephew this summer when they come east and teach him to shoot. it'll be a little challenge getting him away from the rest of the family and taking him some where i can legally shoot.

 

[JKHolman]

educate them early

By Zombienerd:

So, take the mystique away. Any time my children want to see or touch one of my guns, all they have to do is ask. I always oblige. I do this so that it's another part of their life, and not something that daddy keeps in a closet that we're not supposed to see or touch.

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one of the best bits of information I have read anywhere. Incidentally, I do the same with my very curious five-year old daughter (the twelve-year old daughter is already firing the Bushmaster XM15 E2S).

- JKHolman

 

[DT Guy]

When I was old enough to be around guns, and have my first bb gun, my dad took me to a secluded spot and set up a cinderblock on a stump, had me put on muffs, and shot it at about 20 feet with a 12 gauge slug.

After the shot, he turned to me and said, "That's what guns do. Never forget it, even for an instant. That's what comes out of a gun."

I never have-the respect for the power of a gun was instantaneous and permanent.

Larry