Really? Huh.. for use in mostly rural Iowa? And the gun picture is still considered "dangerous"? I wonder if it weren't a handgun if it would still ellicit the same respone.
I was raised in suburban Minnesota and I think a fair number of my contemporaries were schooled in gun safety sometime between the ages of 10 and 12. Going hunting is often considered to be a bonding experience between a young boy (usually) and his father/uncles/etc. But even so, I'm somewhat surprised that a photo of a kid just loading (properly from what I can tell) a handgun is expected to be considered dangerous. If he were brandishing it or pointing it at someone, I can see that. But nothing about that photo strikes me implicitly or inherently dangerous.
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I was raised in suburban Minnesota and I think a fair number of my contemporaries were schooled in gun safety sometime between the ages of 10 and 12. Going hunting is often considered to be a bonding experience between a young boy (usually) and his father/uncles/etc. But even so, I'm somewhat surprised that a photo of a kid just loading (properly from what I can tell) a handgun is expected to be considered dangerous. If he were brandishing it or pointing it at someone, I can see that. But nothing about that photo strikes me implicitly or inherently dangerous.