This is five year old thinking. A five year old cannot comprehend gun safety.

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56. Speaking of proportions. A child can be easily tricked with coins by what they percieve as bigger.

A child can be conned out of a dime by someone offering them a penny or nickel because it's smaller. The can be conned out of dollar bill because if offered a couple of coins, they think they are getting more.

In respect to perspective when viewing an object, they believe the same object, much as the adorable child in the video who was quite good at speaking, that an object closer is larger when in fact it may not be. There are even instances with children who do not percieve themselves as being large because they may be afraid of children smaller than they are.

Perception can be seriously skewed through emotion or their lack of experience. That experience may be learned easily or the hard way.

They are not mature enough to handle a gun. For example, I posted a picture of a laughing female 'mother' who has given her baby a gun to teeth on. A real gun, quite large.

She thinks it's funny, but does not have the sense to realize what that implies, nor does the child. One mishandling of the 'toy' real gun, and the baby's dead.

We have a lot of adults who don't take the lethality of guns seriously. Why do we expect children to do so?