Guns made for kids: How young is too young to shoot?

[KHlover]

Marks said:

KHlover said:
I don't think anyone under 16 years old should be allowed to carry anything more than a BB gun.

So 16 would be your minimum age to even carry a firearm...but just two years later at 18 go ahead and put an M16 in his hands and ship him off to Afghanistan? That seems a bit ridiculous. 

I think 12 is a fair age for a kid to start shooting. But of course at that age it should just be a small calibre .22 rifle. Like I said in my other post, I'd rather be around a 14 year old with two years of gun experience, than an 30 year old who hasn't touched one before. 

I think you might be taught how to use an Assault Rifle in the Army... Here in Germany almost no one knows how to use a firearm before they are drafted, yet I don't hear reports of our soldiers accidently offing themselves in Afghanistan.

I stand by my opinion, a BB gun is more than enough for children to practice shooting with (even they are dangerous enough, pretty easy to lose an eye to it if a shot misses and hits a bystander), lethal firearms should NOT be handled by children under 16 years old.