Buying a rifle for your 14 years old son isn't really a good idea

[rocketpig]

sapphi_snake said:

thranx said:

So a tresspasser on your property? I would shoot them, they shouldn't be there. Anyone who should be there )ie lives on the property) Would know to be careful and announce themselves when the know someone else is target practicing.

Shooting should only apply in self defense. And the person may not be a tresspasser, jsut someone the shooter doesn't see.

Responsible gun ownership involves, you know, not blindly firing into underbrush. You're acting as if people walk out of their houses and begin unloading rounds into the forest with an AK-47 in one hand and a bottle of scotch in the other.

You're using an extreme situation to restrict the vast majority of responsible people. As I said earlier, you can't legislate the stupid out of stupid people. A stupid person would be just as dangerous with an off-road vehicle as a firearm (assuming they're on their own rural land in this very hypothetical situation).