December 08, 2017
The Next Generation: Teaching our kids firearms safety, skills and responsibility
While there are many perspectives on the right time and methods to teach children about firearms safety and skills, we can all agree that safety, skills and responsibility with guns is something every young person should know. As with anything, teaching should be approached in a crawl, walk, run method through the various stages of maturity.
Especially with boys, the mystique of guns needs to be removed, and exposure to firearms is the first step. If children grow up without understanding the lethality of what a gun does, they will develop an unrealistic view of firearms as a whole. In this article, we’re going to go through the different stages of firearms education, with a focus on reinforcing safety