I'm glad you trust six year olds that much. I am NOT saying that there aren't six you old who can't respect boundaries. There absolutely are. I'm just saying I don't trust them. Even my own kids if I had some. The most I would let a kid have is a BB gun and only if they absolutely refused to have a paintball gun instead
But it's very easy for me to say these things. I never had any interest whatsoever in guns. My rents bought me a RedRider BB gun as a kid and I never touched it
I'm not into hunting or archery either. Really the opposite of my dad lmao. The most Involvement I'll have with his hobby is helping him pull deer (and one bear
) out of the woods. Personally, I have no ethical problems with hunting. I eat animals he's killed, and I don't care if he or anyone else does it. I just couldn't bring myself to personally kill my own food. Just like I couldn't bring myself to have an abortion if I were a woman, but I support pro-choice ideology 100% and wouldn't think more or less of a woman if she decided not to or to have an abortion respectively. Maybe I'm a hypocrite lol.
I'll also be the first to say that kids from when you were growing up on your grandparents' farm are a lot different today. Had I been around back then, I probably would have trusted kids younger than sixteen. Even preteen from the 90's are different from the preteens of today. Is it me or are they getting dumber and less responsible?
A law abiding citizen is perfectly able to be absolutely nuts and go on a killing spree with a knife or gun without breaking the law prior to that. It is a crime to bring a weapon into school, so by definition they are not innocent. Even if they didn't use it or take it out off their pocket, it's a crime to possess it. It's not about whether or not they will do it, it's about circumventing the opportunity for it to happen. If it were legal, the teacher may see it and think nothing of it. An hour later they just may be a dead body with a slit throat in the bathroom. That's why it's illegal, so the teacher could have addressed the possession of a knife before someone died instead of ignoring it. I remember a story of a girl who got in trouble because her Tweet Bird key chain had a chain longer than some predetermined length, and so she got suspended. That's ridiculous. That's a weapon, but not pencils, pens, and scissors which flow like wine in any school? OK.
There was a guy who had like a six inch knife in the eighth grade showing it off to us. In fact, he was my best friends boyfriend and we had always been on good terms. I reported him (without anyone knowing it was me, of course) because he said he was going to go on a rampage. Literally, that's what he said. He had a smile on his face and the guys beside me were laughing like it was a joke. It may have honestly been a joke, and it probably was, but the columbine dudes' friends thought they were joking, didn't they? They weren't. I don't play around and I don't take chances with the lives of other people (maybe my own
) If he HAD killed someone, I would have had to live with the thought that I could have done something, but didn't. He went to alternative school for like a year. You may think I'm a d ick for doing what I did, but I'd rather be a d ick that possibly prevented a murder than someone who kept my mouth shut and let someone die.