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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bdgee: [QB] Dad used a .22 and canteloup because his daddy wouldn't contribute one of his prize watermellons to the cause. I was 7 and dad, fresh home from the Marines and still wearing his uniform pants because that was what he had, resumed his fatherly duties.. Later that year, after passing over and over test of the the rules that all boys got back then about guns, I was allowed to venture out with the .22 on my own. It was a year later before I was allowed to go alone with my grandfather's 12 guage. He "granted" me the use of all the shells I could easily hold in one hand, which was three. That afternoon, when I arrived back at the house with a dove and a cotten tail, they made very light of my accomplishment, as I should have , at least, as many slain beast as I had spent shells. Even so, I knew I had stepped into a new world that belonged to men more than boys. I hadn't yet begun to understand the responsibility commensurate with that newly earned social status, but I was ready to accept it, even not knowing it was there. And, when later I did come to recognize what I still owed in return for that promotion, I felt privileged and honored that they measured me worth of the responsibility. I cannot become comfortable in circles where there is some notion that firearms safety must be or canonly be learned from some legally appointed "authority". That sort of thinking conflicts with what I feel is the right, and even more, the responsibility, of the adult males in the community....fathers, brothers, uncles, neighbors, barbers....... It is akin to making boys treat women folk properly. It's a thing that a boy should learn because it is part of becoming a gentleman, which should be aquired before he reaches full grouth. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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