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s/o s/o Gun question.. you growing up..
Did you know where your parents kept things they did not want you as children playing with? Guns, movies they did not want you to watch, alcohol..
Did you grow up in a home with a gun? Did you know where the key was, the bullets, and the safe?
if you grew up with nothing on the above, did your parents talk to you about things you might see at friends home that you should not go near? guns, alcohol
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Re: s/o s/o Gun question.. you growing up..
My parents have guns, but they lived at my grandparent's house under lock and key.
My parents do not drink so there was never alcohol in the house.
Yes, my parents made us very aware of gun safety and alcohol safety. I grew up participating in archery, so I learned that kind of safety too.
When we went to my dad's father's home (where the guns were, and the crossbows, and lots of alcohol, and other various dangerous things) my parents would walk show us the stuff, explain what it was and what it was for. They would also tell us about the dangers of it and that when we were age appropriate they would teach us how to use these items.
My parents were not secretive with any of this stuff, they made sure we had a working knowledge of these things and that we knew that they were not toys. They made sure to never make anything a secret because secrets create curiosity and curiosity can lead to bad things.
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Alcohol but I think that is so much different. My mom made her own hootch in the broom closet. She'd pick wild raspberries, add sugar and vodka and let it sit for about 5 years.
My mom would drink a beer with pizza and we had pizza maybe once every 6 months so that was all we'd see her drink. She'd let us taste her Coors and today I'm still convinced it is piss water. I just assumed all alcohol was piss water.
But no... we weren't talked to about alcohol. It didn't matter. We were weird kids and didn't care about it either.
As for guns, I shot my first rifle at camp when I was a kid. The kick on it was enough to throw me backwards. It really made me have respect for firearms and their power. Also we didn't have video games making guns seem like a fun cartoon thing where people never got hurt or zombies come back to life. 1970's television was all about if you were shot, you die. That was our attitude about guns.
I only dabbled with shooting BB guns in open fields at targets or at wild animals to allow my housemate's cat to not have competition for food at night (we lived in the mountains).
In retrospect, I should have been talked to about gun safety. I know I will have that talk with my kids. The world is a very different place than it was when I grew up.
Did you know where your parents kept things they did not want you as children playing with? Guns, movies they did not want you to watch, alcohol.. Yes, I knew where all of those things were.
Did you grow up in a home with a gun? Did you know where the key was, the bullets, and the safe? I grew up in a house with guns, they were not locked up at all, neither were the bullets. I grew up on a farm so my brother was given guns early in age but my dad did make him go through gun safety. I didn't think anything about it until Emmy stayed in my bro's old room (at my parents house) this past christmas and there were guns just leaning against bookshelves in his room. I had to remove all of that and put them away.
Did you know where your parents kept things they did not want you as children playing with? No guns in my moms house, and my dad had some old 22s at his. Not much alcohol around at either, mainly just beer and wine. Not many movies and no cable.
Did you grow up in a home with a gun? Did you know where the key was, the bullets, and the safe? My dad had 22s at his house, but I didn't know that until I was a teenager. They were in the back of the closet, that's all I remember. I assume unloaded.
if you grew up with nothing on the above, did your parents talk to you about things you might see at friends home that you should not go near? I remember having the gun talk, it may have been by a cop at school though, during safety week or something. I was told if I wasn't sure if I should touch something, then don't touch it and ask an adult. I did pretty much that.
We had guns in the house and they were displayed in a gun cabinet and the ammo was locked away. My parents had talks with us from an early age about not touching the guns or ammo and I remember being around 7 maybe and one of my brothers friends wanting to try to get into them and we (bro and I ) both freaked out, there was no way we were going to be playing with guns.
Alcohol was never something we got into at home. While we drank as teens I never would have touched my parents stuff.
My parents did talk with us about other people having guns and that everyone may not be as careful as my dad was so we had to be the responsible ones and not touch any other guns.
When I was around 10 my best friends older brother was shot in the stomach by his best friend and almost died. They were "playing" with the gun. I think they were about 13. He had to be life flighted out and it was basically luck that the bullet hit in just the "right" spot or he would have died.
I never even touched a gun before I got together with DH... when we were moving in together, he mentioned his gun, and I told him that I wanted to shoot it. I didn't want to be afraid of it if it was going to be in my house.
Alcohol is a totally different story! It was always around growing up, but it wasn't ever really a topic on conversation... I didn't really drink when I was in high school, so it never came up!