Summary: Shyanne Roberts is a 10 year old girl who's a competitive shooter. She currently has several of her own guns (which she can't technically own until she's older) and was taught by her father who has been a gun instructor for about 10 years. He argues that kids should be taught gun safety while they're younger. Others don't agree.
Analysis: The question here is if these kids have the right be using these rifles and entering national competitions at that age. Should their parents be letting them do that? Shyanne's father does have the good idea that kids should be taught basic gun safety, which wouldn't hurt, but is it necessary? So what needs to be discussed is if young children have the right to be taught to use these weapons at such a young age, and if the parents have the right to teach them.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/17/living/10-year-old-competitive-shooter-irpt/index.html?hpt=us_bn2
That's a hard question. I can't remember when it was, but there was a report about a kid who was firing an automatic gun and ended up killing the person standing behind them. They didn't mean to, but the release was just too forceful for them to handle. So when we hear stories like that, we tend to disagree with letting kids learn how to use guns. But on the other hand, it could be very useful for tricky situations.
ReplyDeleteI think that there's not a problem with teaching a child who is mature enough about how to use a gun. As long as they feel comfortable, it should be up to the parent or guardian to decide whether it's okay or not. However, precautions should still be taken and guns should remain put away and used only in the case of an emergency or during a competition.
ReplyDeletepersonally ya i think parents do have a right and its very beneficial if future gun owners are really taught how to handle firearms. My dad taught me when I was around that age and I have a respect for firearms and i know how to handle them safely
ReplyDeleteI believe teaching kids gun safety is okay but I don't think its okay for a 10 year old to own a gun period. You can't trust a ten year old driving nor drinking alcohol so why does it make sense to allow them to own guns?
ReplyDeleteI think at 10 years old someone shouldn't be learning how to use a gun. Maybe at age 15 or 16. But someone that young will never be in the situation where they need a gun for protection or anything
ReplyDeletei think only in certain circumstances should this be allowed, but at the age or 10 there should not be many extremely dangerous things to have to use a gun against.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, gun violence is too much of a societal norm now for us to be introducing shooting as a competitive sport. Such weapons, in the past and now, are used as protection and if we begin to accept and promote the misuse of them, such as shooting competitively or using them to kill one another, we do not deserve to exercise our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. This is also a ten year old. If she is raised to believe that her weapon is used for something as juvenile as competing, she will grow up to believe it is acceptable to use it in a causal environment because competitiveness soon takes over most everything. She is too immature to know the raw facts that what she uses to win awards and trophies, has also killed 306 Americans since the Newtown incident. -Elizabeth Muscari, 6th period
ReplyDeleteI think this is a issue that incorporates many things such as parental authority and gun control. I think that as a parent this man has all the right to let his daughter shoot guns if he wishes but i also believe that he should only be able to get the guns she would shoot under harsher scrutiny then is normally in place.
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