By Josh Sugarmann
Executive Director, Violence Policy Center(Huffing Paint) – With depressing regularity, it keeps happening. A child, sometimes as young as a toddler, gets hold of a firearm (usually owned by a parent or other family member) and unintentionally pulls the trigger with horrific results.
What does the anecdotal story have to do with young people embracing gun ownership? Oh, that’s right: Fear and emotions is all the gun control cultists have in their arsenal. Logic, reason and science are absent from their arguments.
For some gun owners, there is almost a race to the bottom to see how young a child can be to handle, and eventually possess, a gun. In the comments section of an online article from the NRA’s American Hunter magazine titled “Choosing Your Child’s First Gun,” readers detailed the ages at which they felt their own sons and daughters were ready for their first gun: five, six, seven, and older.
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