A reader writes:
On your reader’s logic, we should also train our 8-year-olds to drive, to drink responsibly, and to vote. Why wait until they’re 18, when they have all those emotions and hormones raging?
While I have no doubt that some adults take the opportunity to train their children in the safe use of firearms, I also have no doubt that the larger purpose of all of this is for the gun industry to groom a new generation of consumers who will both spend money on weapons and fight any effort to allow reasonable regulation of those weapons, such as background checks.
This article goes into the details of the gun industry’s campaign to cultivate a new generation of consumers by getting guns into the hands of children.
In the ad above, you’ll note, as Chris Hayes did on Twitter today, that at the 0:22 mark, the mother is actually pointing a gun at her son’s head. In the commercial.
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