• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I find it weird they don’t just lend a gun to their child for hunting. Why give them their own personal gun? What’s the point?

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      10 months ago

      Hunting is a cultural thing for many, and you often start with a smaller caliber while you’re young and learning. I guess I would compare it to a parent buying their kid their first baseball/softball glove. Parents often pass down a love for sport, most just don’t involve killing stuff.

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        10 months ago

        There’s literally nothing stopping them from passing down their cultural love for hunting while only lending their children guns.

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          10 months ago

          You’re not wrong, but it’s still why they do it as far as I can tell from having friends that hunt and were taught by their fathers.

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            10 months ago

            Well I grew up with a dad that hunted and took me hunting, I was even an Eagle Scout, but I didn’t actually own a gun until later in my 20s. There’s just no good reason for kids to have their own guns and it needs to stop.

            Also, gotta be honest, now that I’m older I think hunting is kinda fucked up in itself. I’m not gonna try to fight that battle tho lol