Should you directly intervene if you spot your next-door neighbor teaching his 8-year-old son how to handle an AR-15 rifle

[Racer88]

Awesome answer (and funny) to question on Quora:

Should you directly intervene if you spot your next-door neighbor teaching his 8-year-old son how to handle an AR-15 rifle even if the gu...

Chris Everett's answer: Really, you should correct them. Your average firearm is too unwieldy for a typical child to operate in a safe and effective manner. Children are much better suited to crew served weapons. The semi-stationary characteristics of a mortar or heavy machine gun relies less o...

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[Michele]

Yeah, teach em youngins leadership at its finest. Sure beats cross dressers reading to children in school.

 

[no4mk1t]

Get them interested in competitive shooting. They don't call it a discipline for nothing.
And age alone should not be the measure. Maturity is the yardstick for teaching marksmanship to a youngster.
Getting harder and harder to get them off the couch now. Video games have them in their clutches.

Here's a young man in his prep period prior to shooting 200yd. rapid fire. (10 shots in 60 seconds with a mag change)
If you think you are a good shot, give this a try. See how you do without a scope and without a bench to prop up on. Natural Point of Aim, position, and cadence all become important.

 

[Racer88]

Click on the link, folks. It's a joke. Well... at least the answer to the question is a joke and quite funny.

 

[brian]

Click on the link, folks. It's a joke. Well... at least the answer to the question is a joke and quite funny.

I read it. A pretty humorous response.