Teaching Kids Responsibly
My parents were very anti-gun when I was a kid. Basically just don't even talk about them. I mostly went along with that for most of my life until I had kids of my own and felt like there ought to be something in the house if shit goes down. So I got some guns. And a safe and all that good stuff. Been spending a lot of time at the range and it's a great new hobby of mine.
I don't want to repeat the cycle and make them a juicy forbidden fruit, but obviously they are very dangerous. Also a little concerned about teenage years and the "my life sucks" phases that can happen. By then they'd know how to operate them and that could be very bad...
So people who grew up in "gun houses," how did your parents go about this, when did you become aware of them, how did you learn to respect their power, and things like that?