Should a ten year old be allowed to hunt with a gun?

Shouldn't parents have the freedom to decide when their children are ready for different experiences? As long as a child is taught the proper safety, there is little risk, and either way it is not the government's job to protect us from ourselves.

As a mother of 2 boys and a girl, I believe that if the child is taught the proper safety measures, and given the proper way to fire the firearm then age should not be a matter at hand. Although I do believe the child needs to be mature enough to understand exactly what is being taught, this might be at an early age for those that are more advanced, and others it might be older - say teenage years. After discussing this with my husband, and himself being a hunter, we came to the conclusion that our sons will learn first how to clean the deer or animal and package them for freezing before actually going out and killing. We do hunt for pleasure but we eat what we kill, which is another valuable lesson that we will teach our children when they are mature enough to understand.

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My way of thinking is that children are playing with video games. After killing millions of aliens, monsters, and terrorists, to have that same child not to do ta, ta, ta, ta, through the woods would be huge.