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In reply to the discussion: "Gun culture" begins with parents. Any law that doesn't restrict parents won't change gun culture. [View all]ancianita
(35,950 posts)programs.
Whatever programs exist fail to train mentalities and respect for human life beyond individual gun safe handling, shooting range practice, and storage, and that bare bones minimum totally ignores the family and community cultures that all but allow guns for sport, even play, and killing humans who are narrated as "fearful."
I've owned guns, used them, have never had them when I had children in my house; have left my now grown children to approach gun use as they see fit. Neither has guns in their homes.
When we can't agree on gun purchasing, ownership qualifications, use, use around children, or what makes "gun culture," we leave families to their own irresponsible pride in their toys and protection.
It's so far beyond semantics anymore, that I'm just giving up on such a large country that -- from community to Congress -- refuses to come together about mandatory training of gun owning parents. We'll get the children we deserve, and we'll continue suffering whatever mindless protections of the 2nd Amendment inflict upon us.