Nice Sonny and Cher reference. Spent lotsa time fantasizing 'bout Cher in my younger days

Don't care one whit that you could manage to have an unlicensed weapon since constitutionally that's the way it was meant to be. However, in your scenario you did fail to limit others access to it, which is a personal responsibility issue as would be the idea that your progeny would feel righteous in killing a bully, meaning you'd failed as a parent on 2 fronts.

In a seemingly other lifetime at the age of 7 I took my (unloaded) pistola to school for Show and Tell. No one freaked out or called the cops, nor was the school principal even notified. I was allowed to display it for everyone and no one screamed, cried or cowered in the corner. I got to tell them about my grandfather having given it to me when I turned 6 and my step dad and I having gone over weapon safety as a prelude to my ever shooting it.

Having owned guns for 54 years now I've yet to have even once pointed one at another human and hope I never need to. My feelings are that I grew up in a much more moral society than the one we have now. People were taught and mostly practised the concept of personal responsibility. There weren't millions of people with their hands out expecting everyone else to take care of them, our shores had yet to have been flooded with millions of illegals and at least a goodly percentage of the mentally unstable were locked away from society.

Press the fast forward button to today and we have convinced a huge segment of society that living on the dole is an acceptable method of getting along, illegals are not only rarely dealt with but are even allowed to openly profess their illegality with no logical recourse for those actions ever occurring and wackos are thrown to the curb, left to poison society with their insanity and acts.

Seems like we're living in Bizarro World straight outta a 60s vintage Superman comic book