I don't love guns. They scare the shit out of me. For me, its a consumer product safety issue. I have kids in the house. I won't even have a pellet gun. The Sysmidgets were given Nerf dart guns for Christmas by a relative. For once, I'm letting them use them. But it still gives me the creeps.

I want them to be desensitized to violence, Old Testament style. So I took them outside today to learn how to fire a slingshot. Sure, with practice, they can take an eye out. But unless the slingshot is a gateway weapon to larger manual weapons (like a catapult), I'm not nearly as worried. Much more likely? A water balloon bungie slingshot.

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