Pics) Look At All These Guns People Got for Christmas

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. I got a .22 rifle for Christmas when I was nine.

My father taught me to shoot, and was very serious about instilling the basics of gun safety. I was taught to always treat a gun as if it were loaded; never ever under any circumstances point a gun at another person, even as a joke, always make sure the barrel was pointing at the ground with my finger off the trigger when carrying, and to never chamber a round until ready to fire (at targets, at first, although I was taught to hunt later). I'd kind of like to think I was trained to be responsible. And I don't really, honestly, think there was anything "creepy" about it. (And I do favour reasonable restrictions on firearms, personally.)