"Children will pick up a gun if they find it. They can't help themselves, it's what they do. They're curious, and it's your job to make sure their curiosity doesn't hurt them," project representative Linda Corrow said.
And Then:
Know your gun. Know your ammo. Be sure of your backstop. Be sure of your target.Linda or Ed...avoidance or education...
"No one ever got hurt because of the strict discipline," Catalano said. "At the very beginning, Ed Schrop wouldn't even let you touch a gun. It was this way -- or out."
Before long, the boys knew how to clean rifles, take them apart and put them back together.
Gee, picking a properly qualified firearms authority for young people to listen to sure is difficult...
2 comments:
David,
Thanks for the post on the Akron rifle club. It was fun to read. It really is a shame people don't do such things anymore.
"They're curious, and it's your job to make sure their curiosity doesn't hurt them,"
Well that sounds like pretty good advice to me. Too bad she doesn't take her own advice.
Seems to me that "gun locks" do nothing to satisfy the curiosity and only work (if they do) for the single gun it is on. Training on the other hand satisfies the curiosity quite nicely, provides valuable physical and mental skills, and is effective for all guns for the rest of the trained individual's life.
Yep, she just need to get her head out of her a## and follow her own advice.
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