Posted March 31, 2016 7:07 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

Children and Guns (From: Getty Images via abcnews.go.com)
Children and Guns (From: Getty Images via abcnews.go.com)
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership

USA –

NRA Eddie Eagle

Not so fast. Of fourteen girls tested, only one touched a gun. And in two of three other groups of boys, older and wiser 10-year-olds stopped their younger friends from touching them. Those younger friends were just 5 years old. Overall, 18 of 30 boys without the single days-old gun safety teaching touched them, while only 9 of 24 who’d been taught not to touch did.

In a moving plot line, two boys had never been allowed to see guns or violent media, so had no awareness of what they can do. Their mothers were terrified by their sons’ interest. A third mother had told her son about the injuries from gunfire she dealt with in the operating room. Her son touched anyway, and mostly regretted his mother knowing. Another mother (the wife of a law officer) with more insight said “For these guys, guns are about the same seriousness as crickets, frogs and cookies.”

But one child aptly questioned: “Why was the gun even in here?”. . .just before …Read the Rest

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