Maybe this is the new normal. I can tell you from knowing people who grew up on ranches that kids learn how to shoot at an early age in rural America. But there’s a difference between learning how to shoot a rifle in case you need to kill a rattlesnake menacing the horses or some such and this.

The whole idea of gun ownership is that it’s supposed to act as a deterrent. Again, my experience with ranchers taught me that if you have valuable animals and valuable items in the barn such as saddles and tack, you need to protect yourself. I knew ranchers who had alarm systems and they also had shotguns and usually a revolver. But I never knew anybody who was arming for a military takeover like this. This is scary.

 

 

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  2. I was taught to shoot at about age 10. It was with a single shot Sears and Roebuck .22 rifle, and I was not allowed to shoot it (or even touch it) without my dad supervising me. That rifle along with Dad’s shotgun and his Japanese copy of a Mauser 7.65 rifle (WWII vintage) along with the ammunition were kept locked up when not in use.

  3. It shouldn’t be normal anywhere – but especially in a country where we are *not* in a shooting civil war, and we aren’t being invaded by enemies. Kinds that age shouldn’t have *any* kind of firearm…and we played with cap pistols when I was a kid, which had no projectiles and barely enough black powder to smell. (Mostly we took strips, put them on the sidewalk or the driveway, and hit them with hammers or rocks. Stung, but you had to work to do any damage.)

    • You probably smelled the Sulphur portion of the Potassium Chlorate/Sulphur mixed for caps as that combo is impact sensitive, gives a good snap when impacted, and, like you, we used hammers on the side walk … when caps were still sold in roles, we would do a whole roll at once … VERY impressive … the Sulphur is also present in black powder as one of three components …

      75% Potassium Nitrate/15% air float Charcoal/10% Sulphur … black powder is used as the root chemistry in fireworks, powdered metals are added for colors, like Strontium Nitrate used in red flares … and Ariel bombs …

      I agree with you about younger children and weapons of war, not any excuse, EVER …

  4. Yes, it’s normal in a country in permanent social and political war and with so many pinheads in possession of assault weapons. It’s normal in USA.

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