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John Carter's avatar

AR-15s are utterly inappropriate for children. They lack the size, strength, and coordination to make use of them, and are liable to hurt themselves.

Instead, children should be issued crew-served weapons. Since these tend to be static, the children do not need to carry them. Further, they teach the virtues of cooperation.

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Fla Mom's avatar

We did a modified version of this (plastic guns in toddlerhood had to be handled as if they were real; no flagging us, only shoot at what you're trying to 'kill'). Our baby gators were too close to Big Momma, who had been fed whole grocery store chickens by the previous owners of our farm (idiots), and frankly I had never even thought of catching baby gators by hand. However, DS did turn out to be a great self-taught wild hog hunter, carrying his AR-15, wandering all over our and nearby properties (with permission), occasionally crawling through tunnels in the brush with his pistol out (I didn't know about that ahead of time), and keeping us from having to buy pork for years. He's at college now, so we're back to our farm-raised beef and lamb.

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