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eskielover · Apr 22, 2019 at 02:34 PM

Our local sheriff who held the CC class I went to suggested I get a shot gun for in my house. He said that anyone breaking & entering who hears the cocking of a shot gun will run in the other direction....no need to shoot. First gun I shot was a rifle. Lol....I was surprised I hit the target first try.

A little background on why I was surprised.....in Junior High I had friends who liked to target practice with bow & arrow. My first attempt to aim at the target, the arrow went up & over the house & landed in the back yard. I was so embarrassed I swore at that time I would NEVER do anything that required shooting at a target.

My alone life on my farm is giving me a second chance at all those things I didn't do well as a kid because I never had anyone willing to teach or guide. Lol....still not interested in bow & arrow shooting even though we have that hunting season here where I live. All the woodsy creatures around here KNOW my farm is a SAFE zone.

Shooting for me is either target practice or in worst case it would be self defense.

I will say that I think many people who do the mass shootings place no value on human life. Conditioned by movies & "technicolor blood" to not really see the real effect. But then I have another theory on some of the shootings but that is NOT what this thread is about.

@saidso. I think some of the problems with maturity levels becoming higher in the US is that there is no draft where young people are put into a place where they have to learn how to survive. Many live at home & go to college until they are older & that may not even be getting an advanced degree....but just fooling around in college trying to figure themselves out. Many parents no longer kick their kids out of the nest & make them fly on their own. The movie "Failure to Launch"comes to mind.

Those who end up in the military & those who do get out on their own, mature sooner than those who continue to be cared for by their parents until a much older age. Our society differs so much there is not a one description fits all kinda thing here & different states have different laws we to adult ages too for drinking & owning guns.