The mass shooting last month in Maine — perpetrated by an Army reservist allowed to keep his guns reportedly bought days before he underwent psychiatric evaluations due to his erratic behavio…
I don’t think 8 is too young. I think kids need to be exposed to responsible gun use long before they see irresponsible gun use in fiction.
The problem isn’t the “glorification” of guns as others have suggested. The problem is normalization of criminal gun use. Responsible gun use should be depicted as the rule, not the rare exception. A kid should not be seeing a gang member or white supremacist murdering a cop on TV before she has been taught the four rules and how to handle a BB gun.
I don’t think 8 is too young. I think kids need to be exposed to responsible gun use long before they see irresponsible gun use in fiction.
The problem isn’t the “glorification” of guns as others have suggested. The problem is normalization of criminal gun use. Responsible gun use should be depicted as the rule, not the rare exception. A kid should not be seeing a gang member or white supremacist murdering a cop on TV before she has been taught the four rules and how to handle a BB gun.