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In reply to the discussion: The NRA’s New Target Practice App Teaches Four-Year-Olds to Shoot [View all]NickB79
(19,274 posts)25. Agreed, letting a kid use an app like this is stupid
But that's because I think too many parents use TV and games like this as a substitute for real parenting and quality time with their child. Much better to take them to the range and show them how to use the real thing. Here's what my wife wants to buy our daughter when she turns 5: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chipmunk+rifle&FORM=HDRSC2#view=detail&id=7E2ABC325DA83D688F5C042EFFC6710E60CB39F3&selectedIndex=1
Though I'd rather start her on a BB gun for the first couple of years in the backyard before progressing to a .22 rife.
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The NRA’s New Target Practice App Teaches Four-Year-Olds to Shoot [View all]
RetroGamer1971
Jan 2013
OP
Dear Lord: Please Keep The NRA This Stupid, Clueless And Tone-Deaf, Forever And Ever. (nt)
Paladin
Jan 2013
#3
I want an 'app' that teaches children from age one that guns are evil and vile.
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2013
#6
I do every day, but you see like the NRA, I can reach millions more with an app.
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2013
#9
Thanks. Been 65 years, in multiple big cities in many states, and never saw a need for a gun and
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2013
#12
Because they are vile and the instruments of evil. Designed for a single use: to kill.
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2013
#17
Yes, they are. If I believed in mythical beings, I'd call them the spawn of the devil.
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2013
#31
The point is, the NRA granted the publishers a LICENSE to use their name and insignia.
tarheelsunc
Jan 2013
#38