Dreamer
Regular Member
My sister an I were both adopted (in WV). My father owned shotguns and rifles, and NEVER kept them locked up, and NEVER had trigger locks, and never locked up the ammo separately. We all knew where they were and what they were for.
Never once, while living in that house, was there EVER a negative firearms-related situation, or even one that cold be construed as dangerous, hazardous or otherwise bad.
In fact, I attribute much of my success as a law-abiding adult and citizen to my parent's attitudes toward firearms. They taught me responsibility, care, safety, and how to follow rules. They taught me to respect dangerous things, to use tools properly, and to seek out training for tools I was unfamiliar with. They taught me dedication, persistence and how to develop a skill by practice. Firearms figured prominently in my interest in history, art, mechanical things, the law, and civics. Firearms figured prominently in my becoming an Eagle Scout. Firearms were (and still are) a common link between me and my family--they are why I have remained close to many of my cousins through hunting, competition, and activism. Firearms in OUR home made me a good citizen, a responsible man, and safe person, and they strengthened and reinforced family ties and community membership.
As an adopted child who grew up with firearms, I find this regulation to be insulting to adoptive parents, insulting to adopted children, and a fundamental infringement on the RKBA of some of the most CARING, LOVING, and RESPONSIBLE parents in the world--the ones who DELIBERATELY go out of their way to have a child in their lives through adoption.
I am disgusted and appalled.
I may have to write some letters on this one...
Never once, while living in that house, was there EVER a negative firearms-related situation, or even one that cold be construed as dangerous, hazardous or otherwise bad.
In fact, I attribute much of my success as a law-abiding adult and citizen to my parent's attitudes toward firearms. They taught me responsibility, care, safety, and how to follow rules. They taught me to respect dangerous things, to use tools properly, and to seek out training for tools I was unfamiliar with. They taught me dedication, persistence and how to develop a skill by practice. Firearms figured prominently in my interest in history, art, mechanical things, the law, and civics. Firearms figured prominently in my becoming an Eagle Scout. Firearms were (and still are) a common link between me and my family--they are why I have remained close to many of my cousins through hunting, competition, and activism. Firearms in OUR home made me a good citizen, a responsible man, and safe person, and they strengthened and reinforced family ties and community membership.
As an adopted child who grew up with firearms, I find this regulation to be insulting to adoptive parents, insulting to adopted children, and a fundamental infringement on the RKBA of some of the most CARING, LOVING, and RESPONSIBLE parents in the world--the ones who DELIBERATELY go out of their way to have a child in their lives through adoption.
I am disgusted and appalled.
I may have to write some letters on this one...
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