As you know I live in a very small town in East Tennessee. Hunting is a tradition here and every hunting season the local paper is full of stories of young children taking their first turkey or first deer. In all cases the youthful hunters are with adults and are taught gun safety. I have no problem with 10 year olds hunting if they are with a responsible adult. If they are not with a responsible adult, well laws wouldn't matter much anyway would they.

For the record, I am not a hunter, I am a fly fisherman but I have absolutely nothing against those who hunt, especially here where many people are subsistence hunters, adding fresh meat to their freezers.

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10 year olds are already hunting in this country.

A little kid out hunting at 5 years old with DADDY IS STILL HUNTING!

I have seen five, six, seven year old kids fire a 22 rifle, a 20 gauge shotgun....at 7 years old, I was already firing a 12 gauge shotgun under supervision! I had to do chores to earn the shells, and started shooting at tin cans.

No one....I mean no one....lets a 10 year old run around alone with a firearm. They take him hunting with Dad and Uncles and the like, and he does hunt, and maybe carries a shotgun or small bore rifle. There is a common sense issue here.

When I was that age, sometimes I was set in a blind near my Uncle, who was in another blind, and I was given two shells.

When I was in the first grade, me and my cousins were dressed in orange vests, and we were driving deer from one fire trail to another so that others in the family could harvest them. Sometimes we switched places.

When I was 12, I was allowed to hunt alone....and have ever since, up until the time a few years ago when I all but stopped hunting for lack of free time away from employment.

My situation is very typical of the hunting family.

My bad on shitt'en on the ol' sunflower state. I was born in Witchita and It's just that the other 49 states have more going on. Sorry, but Kansas sucks dude. I guess it's cool if your bed ridden in a vegative state of mind. I coulden't imagine living a life watching the wheat and soy beans grow. You only have one life dude. Get the hell out of Kansas while you still can.

All Republicants are to be relocated to Kansas next year early.

There is plenty of room for all, and it will seem familiar.

It's the Land of Milk and Honey, where wide-stancers may run free.

wOOt!

Your so gay A/C.

I've gone skeet shooting at 10 years old. No big deal.

So .....you're saying that there are actually people living in South Dakota?

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The Dakota's have great wingshootin'.

No kidding.

I'd take the California money and move there; but for all the Republicants.

That dosen't make any since A/C. Go felch a horse asshole. "Republicants". Was that the hip word to use when you were in high school back in the 20's?