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ProgressiveProfessor

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18. You may be doing them a disservice by not seeing to it that they get basic safety training

Reply to vaberella (Reply #16)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 11:45 AM

Dec 2012

We did that with our daughters at an early age. If they ever encountered an unsecured weapon they would have known what to do and not do. Otherwise their curiosity and willingness to emulate cartoons and video games may get the best of them with disastrous results.

Now the downside. That kind of safety course is taught by the evil NRA for free.

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