Teach Your Children Well

David Codrea has some good advice for parents on teaching your children about guns. After all, many think that at the appropriate age, you should teach your children about sex. Why is that? After all, this is one thing they will soon figure out on their own if you don't teach them. I know, from personal experience. Well, you teach them so they won't get in trouble. You probably also taught your child to swim. Why was that? Well, it was in part to keep them from drowning if they encountered a pool away from home.

It's the same thing with guns. You may not want them becoming gun enthusiasts. But that is a decision they will make on their own when they are adults. In the meantime, you need to teach them to be safe around guns, but not panic over them. They are tools, nothing more. If your child encountered a table at a friends house, would they know what to do? How about a chain saw? These can kill and maim too.

The world is filled with tools that can, if misused, become death machines. The trick is to teach our children, at the appropriate age, how to deal with these death machines appropriately.