Moms? In a gun column? Why NOT?
\nMany a mother has used guns to protect her young, and to teach them responsibility for their own safety and for that of their children when they became parents themselves.
\nMy significant other, a mom and grand-mom, taught her young to protect themselves. One of her kids is today a competitive pistol shooter, and all of her children gathered an impressive array of Tae Kwon Do trophies over the years.
\nMy own mom absolutely hated guns, but she understood the need for them. She knew that a gun had saved my dad\u2019s life before she ever met him, and she was supportive when I became involved in firearms at a very early age. When I started shooting bulls-eye pistol matches in my late teens and mentioned that my old Colt Woodsman wasn\u2019t quite keeping up, my mother held her nose and went into a gun shop and bought me a state of the art High Standard Supermatic .22 pistol.
\nWhen my then-wife learned that our older daughter wanted to come with me to Africa on safari, it was one of the great arguments of our 30-year marriage. She finally agreed to let Elder Brat go, on the condition that she be able to carry a gun and pass a police qualification course with it. The kid passed it with flying colors, and at age ten carried a loaded .38 Colt Police Positive Special customized to fit her hand by two of the all-time greats, pistolsmith Fred Sadowski and stock-maker Fuzzy Farrant. In her three weeks in South Africa and what was then Southwest Africa, her shooting prowess amazed the grownups. It wouldn\u2019t be too many years before she and her sibling, Younger Brat, both won national pistol shooting titles while still in their teens. If there was anyone prouder of that than their father, it was their mother.
\nSo, today, a tip of the hat to wise, protective mothers everywhere.
\nI bet you have some great moms-and-guns stories too.
\nPlease, share here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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