Call me crazy, (nearly everyone does anyway) but I want to learn how to shoot a gun. Keep in mind, I'm not saying that I want to own a gun. The two, to me, aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
A good friend of mine believes otherwise, though. He says that the first step in learning how to shoot is buying the gun. My line of thinking is simple. What if I buy a gun, learn how to shoot, then discover that I either don't like shooting, don't like guns, or just don't like the gun that I chose? In my reasoning, if I learn how to shoot first, then I can decide if I want one or not.
I am the type of person that if I were to try to teach myself how to shoot, I'd wind up killing the livestock half a mile away, and probably would also lose a foot in the process, too.
When the kids were younger, I didn't dare to have anything more dangerous than a butter knife in the house. My kids were the ones everyone else's kids were warned about. My son super glued my daughters mouth shut when she was three. At two, she got flying lessons... out of the second story window. My daughter was sweet and mild mannered, but very good at holding grudges. When we got our first dog, Eddie, she tried to get him to bite some kids that had been bullying her. Of course, he just licked their faces but those kids knew to leave her alone!
So yeah. a gun when they were little wasn't exactly a positive choice. Now that they're older, though, I'd at least like to know how to handle one.
What is something that you'd like to learn?
Bullets come out of the hollow end. Don't point it at anybody you don't want to go away. Pretty straight forward.
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