Isn’t it too bad the government has never conducted an actual scientific study on how it affects a child’s likelihood of committing crimes if his parents buy him a gun?
Um, actually ... they have.
The study was conducted from 1993-1995 by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
They found that children who get guns from their parents don’t commit gun crimes (0 percent), while children who get guns illegally are quite likely to do so (21 percent)....
It used to be common knowledge that the best way to get kids to act ‘responsibly’ was precisely to give them some ‘responsibility.’ Why would we assume a child taught by his parents to use a gun responsibly wouldn’t also be more responsible in his other behaviors?