I grew up in a farming community and behind every door there was at least one gun. Some were prominently displayed and some were in a closet.
Nobody got shot and nobody was confused between a toy cap pistol and a real gun. Makes me wonder just how dumb kids are today, we knew very well not to shoot another kid with a real gun.
Kids who were bullied by older or bigger kids didn't take a gun to school to solve their problem. Sometimes they just suffered but sometimes they were advised by a parent to fight back. And we had teachers that would step in and spank a kid that caused too much trouble.
We all managed to grow up and become productive citizens without shooting anybody, shooting ourselves or causing any firearms related problems. I think the reasons was, we were part of a family with rules and expectations. We had dads, dads we respected and feared. We had moms that we loved and wouldn't have wanted to hurt.
Guns were just tools and were meant to be used in a certain way. We had people that had returned from WWII and Korea who really didn't want any more violence but who knew how do deal with it if necessary. They passed on some of that to us and not as something to glorify but something to avoid.
