swampsniper
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MAYBE IM THE ABNORMAL ONE BUT
I never personally had impulses of the sort we are discussing. I got a Daisy Red Ryder when I was 8, and a real heavy dose on the responsiblities of growing into manhood, as you would expect from my Father eventually completing 42 years in the Army. I bought a .22 with paper route money at 13, and later at 13, an SMLE, from Sears.I was wearing a High Standard .22 pistol before I could drive. Maybe it just sort of grew on me instead of being dropped on me in one big chunk by a DI. I never had any doubt what guns could do, or of how I was expected to use them.
I would much rather teach a kid to shoot than an adult. I have trained adults so full of misconceptions as to be near untrainable. I have had them be so self conscious that they kept looking around to see if anyone was watching them. They were fighting guilt problems just from actually holding a gun.
It matters most how you are programmed before you begin. I always knew that guns were tools, just like saws, hammers and wrenches. I am dancing around trying not to offend any city folks, so I'll just say, thank God I'm a country boy.
I never personally had impulses of the sort we are discussing. I got a Daisy Red Ryder when I was 8, and a real heavy dose on the responsiblities of growing into manhood, as you would expect from my Father eventually completing 42 years in the Army. I bought a .22 with paper route money at 13, and later at 13, an SMLE, from Sears.I was wearing a High Standard .22 pistol before I could drive. Maybe it just sort of grew on me instead of being dropped on me in one big chunk by a DI. I never had any doubt what guns could do, or of how I was expected to use them.
I would much rather teach a kid to shoot than an adult. I have trained adults so full of misconceptions as to be near untrainable. I have had them be so self conscious that they kept looking around to see if anyone was watching them. They were fighting guilt problems just from actually holding a gun.
It matters most how you are programmed before you begin. I always knew that guns were tools, just like saws, hammers and wrenches. I am dancing around trying not to offend any city folks, so I'll just say, thank God I'm a country boy.
