On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Gil Hamilton wrote: > No one's advocating giving guns to toddlers, but why should ordinary I wouldn't say "no one." Depending on how one chooses to define toddler, I'd heartily support seeing more kids receive firearms instruction... I fired my first rifle at age 6. The accompanying lessons in responsibility, independence, proper care of equipment, critical thinking skills, and so on, were invaluable. "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them..." -- Richard Henry Lee, 1788.
