GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[Blindgreed1]

I showed y'all a clip from that Dateline special about kids & guns. It's not enough to tell them guns are bad/dangerous. It must be reiterated over and over again. I daresay most kids know that guns are a big NO but that won't keep them from handling one if they should ever come across one.

I have seen these Dateline specials. The parents stand in the background totally shocked that their child (after having been warned about firearms) not only picked up the gun, but pointed it at others....there seems to be this fascination with guns regardless of age and warnings.

Likewise, when children are warned about stranger danger, etc. Dateline has done specials wherein, the child goes off with stranger to look for his missing puppy. Again, the shocked parents stand behind the scenes with the producers of the show and can't believe their child actually went off with a stranger.

Warnings are very often useless when dealing with children....they aren't mature enough to call in good judgement, whether it be danger from a stranger, a firearm, etc....The shows which have been featured on Dateline, 20/20, etc. should serve as a reminder to everyone that warnings to children are, most often, totally useless.

And yet I made it this far in life after being around firearms my whole childhood. I had unabated access to them too. Amazing...