Prof Young
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Travels took me to Academy Outdoors in Huntsville Alabama today. Some seriously good prices on guns. Plain Jane Sig p238 for $519. Really.
Had 10 year old grandson in tow. He was reluctant to hang around in the gun section. Brought that reluctance up in conversation later. It became clear he thought you could buy fully automatic weapons from a place like AO. So it was a good teaching moment. Difference between full auto and semi auto, a gun is just a tool, the gun counter is not some kind of evil place etc. He shoots nerf guns and we'd just spent 20 minutes or so blasting dinosaurs with machine guns in a booth type video game so those examples helped him understand things. I suspect he will not be one that I ever get to teach to shoot or hunt. His dad has gone shooting with me but only once and mom is clearly the instiller of a fear of guns. I got plenty of other grandkids so . . . He is one smart little guy so who knows.
Life is good.
Prof Young
Had 10 year old grandson in tow. He was reluctant to hang around in the gun section. Brought that reluctance up in conversation later. It became clear he thought you could buy fully automatic weapons from a place like AO. So it was a good teaching moment. Difference between full auto and semi auto, a gun is just a tool, the gun counter is not some kind of evil place etc. He shoots nerf guns and we'd just spent 20 minutes or so blasting dinosaurs with machine guns in a booth type video game so those examples helped him understand things. I suspect he will not be one that I ever get to teach to shoot or hunt. His dad has gone shooting with me but only once and mom is clearly the instiller of a fear of guns. I got plenty of other grandkids so . . . He is one smart little guy so who knows.
Life is good.
Prof Young