How can anybody be against this? (cross post)

[SeattleVet]

15. When I was about 7 we visited my grandparents in Tennessee.

There was always a .22 rifle next to the kitchen door, and a .45 M1911 Colt on the fireplace mantle. My father took me and my younger sister out to the backyard with the rifle, set up some tin cans and taught us safe handling and operation and basic marksmanship. Then he obliterated an apple with one of those little .22 cartridges to show us how much power was in that small round.

We were told in no uncertain terms that we were never to touch these items unless it was handed to us by an adult. We went through a box of shells, learned gun safety, and had a wonderful time. And none of us kids ever laid an errant hand on those guns.