This thread says a lot about how much some people around here trust the mental stability of their own offspring!
I wonder if that's due to any kind of genetic flaws/background ๐
Caine slew Able long before guns were ever invented ya know
There has never been a gun invented that fires itself without human intervention, so it's not the guns you need to concern yourselves about, only the minor percentage of freak outs that go crazy with them every so often, and if any one of your offspring has a leaning toward doing that sort of thing it won't be because they did or didn't play with aa toy gun as a kid :_|
I was raised being around real loaded guns, just as every other kid I knew back then was, but none of us has ever gone crazy with one and shot a dozen or people at the one time just for the hell of doing it.
Neither have I ever handled any gun unlawfully or unsafely. I have way too much respect for guns to ever do such a thing.
I've had more than my fair share of fully loaded weapons pointed in my general direction at differing times, some were even discharged with the sole intent of killing me if possible, but that's par for the course where I originally come from and still visit now and then.
You just have to learn to be a better shot than those who are shooting at you.
When I go back to SA later this year I'll be doing it via Kenya so I can pick up my personal armoury from a friends place before continuing on to SA as I certainly don't intend go back there without fully loaded guns, and be ready and prepared to use them in self defence if pushed to it.
The only place in SA I don't carry at least a loaded hand gun is when I'm visiting old ranger friend in the Kruger NP, but that doesn't mean to say a gun wouldn't be made available to me there if required.
At least I always managed to avoid irate husbands and fathers when they may have been looking for me with loaded shotguns though ๐
Even had a couple of sheilas threaten me with that too :^O
