The root of all problems with guns

[AverageMe]

12. I am his Step-father and entered his life when he was eight years old

His mother had to work and he was raised by his grandmother for his first eight years. I am 16 years older then his mother and tried to be a friend to her three children first. I have never had any children of my own, before becoming a father to them. I always respected them as little people who can be reasoned with and never said "because I said so". I never lost my temper with them and always explained why they were being punished. This is one reason I do not understand his issues with anger, he was the middle child, and I have never had any problems with the other two. I was never religious so I did not require the go to church, although their grandmother was very religious and I know they went to church when they lived with her.