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2naSalit

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4. I know several who are.

Reply to Loudly (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:04 AM

Dec 2012

I'm not a mom but I know of several in my neck of the woods who most definitely have kids as young as ten who use guns. I don't think it's as uncommon as you might imagine. I am not a close friend of these folks and I don't know to what extent they have collected weapons but I know they have them and their kids shoot them.

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