MA2444
Well-Known Member
HEY GUYS! I was making a joke out of the saying that you never forget how to ride a bike (as that was being compared to shooting a gun) and confessing how exceptionally untrue that is in my case even though I had been in the millitary and how utterly pathetic I was at remembering anything. And thats it.
In confessing so much does not equate to me somehow believing that "the weapons of our warfare in Christ are carnal" or that I even care to know about, discuss or to glory in barrels sizes
Thats not my thing, there is nothing more I can be least interested in.
Now if you want to discuss THE Sword/ word of God (I'm all in)
And I know that is not in this thread so, enjoy any further discussion on these things without me.
Ok I'll tell you what, lol. I got a good laugh out of that post....because this last summer I was gifted a bike. ou can hear this coming huh?! I havent been on a bike in years. My kids are pushing 40! I used to ride bikes with them all the time in Colorado. I had a nice mountain bike. But when they grew out of the bikes and moved out I had vehicles so didnt ride any more. Well the very first time out on this bike after it came to me, I wiped out! So people dont forget how to ride a bike eh?! My hand hurt for a few days!
Sorry if I like talking about guns so much. I've always been into guns since I was a little kid and reload most of my own ammo too! I have some guns that have never fired a Factory round. I have to buy 22s, lol. I even cast my own lead bullets for the guns. And I still load my own ammo and stuff, it's sorta, my hobby, what I do. I'm good at it.
I was reloading ammo from when the kids were young (my dad taught me.) And I was thinking just the other day that, I was in my reloading room for most of the time that my kids were growing up and everyone's enamoured with guns, or at least my two boys and all 3 of my Wife's little brothers who were around most of the time. And I thought, that might have been the reason that my marriage lasted so long! Instead of being down at the pool hall with my buddies getting in to mischief, I was in the war room we called it with her brothers and my kids making bullets and talking about hunting and red dawn stuff, lol. Teaching all of them about guns so everyone was safe and nothing happened.
You see my first date with my wife was, I took her shooting 22 rifles with me! She said she was free saturday and I had plans already to go shooting so I just took her along. And...eventually when she got pregnant and I had to get a place for us to be together, she got to see the extent of my gun collection and being pregnant had instant foresight and said if one gun ever goes off in the house, you have to get rid of them all! And I couldn't just let that happen so since I already knew that, I cant child proof a gun, so I will have to gun proof the kids! And so I made a deal with the kids when they were toddlers. That they were allowed to handle a real gun if they could learn and tell me what the 4 Rules of Gun Safety are? And they are:
1. Treat all firearms as if they are loaded at all times.
2.Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
3. Never point a gun at anything that you are not willing to destroy.
4. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.
And kids are bright. They learned fast and well because they used that deal to try to stay up late at night (like when we were playing card games with friends!) And I kept my word to them kids! I don't remember how many card games I put on hold to go show the kids a gun. They'd say, Dad can we play with a gun? (Trying to get to stay up some more) and...I had given them my word! I had to do it, lol! So I'd say, which one? and they would pick one and I would get it and go in thier bedroom with and say, we don't "play" with guns. We "Handle" them. What are the four rules? And they would rattle them off and I'd then llet them handle it and give em a light smack upside the head if they pointed it at the dog or something. I took them shooting when they were toddlers and shook up cans of soda pop and let them shoot them so they could see the power in real life. Then I would pick up the split can and give it to them and instruct them to, fix it, make it better. and they couldn't do that and I let them ponder that for a minute and asked them can you fix it? And I'd either get get a dumbfounded look or a no.. SO I said, this is real life. This is not TV! That is what would happen to your mother or your brother if you shot them, be safe boy! And I taught them and gunproofed them. In fact I made the Momma come too! I said hey we got two kids and we are two people and so have to have two parents there to watch the two kids and go to the firing line with one kid at a time so I made her learn at the same time. God Bless her for understanding that guns can't be child-proofed. So to make kids safe around guns you must Gun-Proof the Child. Besides, not owning guns is enough to keep kids safe from guns in the USA. There's already so many guns out there that it's a sure bet that when the kids get older and go to their friends house...and the friend pulls out the loaded 38 from his dad's sock drawer? They have to know how to react to not get shot.
And my kids learned good! They were very muzzle conscious!Which way is that real gun pointing? So to not own some guns in America and desiring to keep one's kid safe from guns they are being irresponsible because their friend's dad owns a gun so they aint safe! There is no safety in ignorance. And so you have to Gun-proof your kids. And to do that you must teach them and you can't do that unless you know, lol! So you who are not interested in learning how to shoot a gun safely (No pun intended!) but you are in keeping your kids safe, then Learn by doing, teach by knowing.
It does work to gun-proof your kids! I was married 26 years and the kids had already moved out when she left, and we never did have a Accidental Discharge in the house! My kids have gotten into more trouble than I ever have before but they have never did anything stupid with a gun. Geez I trusted them enough with guns to let them keep loaded 22 pistols in their bedroom by age 10! One time when they were younger I just got home from work and they were in the front yard having a toy gun battle, and as I came walking up into the field of fire they both lowered their muzzles and didn't point them at me! I was so proud of them! And they still have never been stupid with guns, so that brings truth to the scripture which says if you teach a child when he is young, when he is old he will not depart from it! (notwithstanding I should have been a better spiritual leader of the home.
See that wasn't about guns, lol. It was about loving the kids enough to teach them and loving them enough to know that, in America...they better know how to be safe with guns! Or else the only thing they know about guns...they learned from hollywood?! Not good, not good! Especially with the US on the verge of an occupied war.