Ericstac wrote:You have to wonder what kind if life this kid has to have the mentality to pick up a gun and start shooting at someone. I have 4,9,11 year old boys and they are around my guns and even shoot occassionally, but if it came down to this I don't think they have the aggressive behavior to take revenge on the burglar like that. Now this kid, odds are his parents don't have guns and no range time or experience in the house with guns found himself to have this aggressive behavior... At 9 yrs old. Is it due to street thuggin life? It's not video games.. My kids play all the violent games and it doesn't affect them.
My 14 year old son would be able to. But we spend lots of time talking about guns, self-defense, self-reliance, etc. Heck, we heard our wheelie-bins get knocked over late one night and he ran upstairs to grab my 9mm (I told him to) to back me up while I checked it out (everything was fine, BTW, it was just an enormous housecat messing with my bins). But he was fully prepared to back up Dad! I was very proud of him (and am VERY glad that it turned out to be nothing).
My 16 year old daughter OTOH..... Well, I think she'd have a tough time. She's got Asperbergers and has a tendency to "freeze" and/or freak out when things don't go the way she thinks should.
