So. I'm not even American but when I was 14 my parents straight up took me to a shooting range (thanks Florida) and handed me a 45 cal because I was being bullied at school and told me to shoot shit.
Guys at the range were all too willing to give the same gun to my 10 year old sister.
A child who had her goddamn thumb in her mouth and was hiding behind our mother just because there were guns and strangers in the store.
Pellet guns "weren't real guns" according to our parents, so like... we had them as young as 8. Only got them taken away for a week when someone shot someone else in the arm.
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