...teach kids about firearms, that is...
There are hunters who go a lifetime dreaming of that big kill. Then there's Simon Hughes, who helped nab a beast of an animal on an East Texas hunt — while still in the first grade. The 5-year-old boy from Goodrich was part of a hunting crew that recently killed an 800-pound, 12-foot-6-inch alligator that has wildlife experts shaking their heads.
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Simon had a new junior-sized .410-gauge shotgun. His first gun had been too big, having a recoil that opened a small cut below one eye after he fired it.
Neither his father nor mother worry about Simon using firearms, because he has been taught gun safety since he was big enough to walk and stand in a deer blind.
“That's the way it is in rural areas,” Scott Hughes said. “We don't think of guns as playthings or something used in videogames.”
Excellent. What an awesome example this man set for his son, teaching him about guns as opposed to keeping the gun loose in the closet and not teaching him how dangerous it could be if not handled properly. Sure as hell beats keeping the gun locked up and the little one ignorant, as most of the gun controllers more or less advocate. Just goes to show you, the bitter clingers, as our esteemed President so artfully referred to them, are in some cases more enlightened than the self-appointed elites.
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