Son number 3

[robivi3]

Getting the drop on GIjOE!
Sniping poor Joe with a Remington 597 one of our l'il but loved .22's.

That's a blown up jeep from the Battle of the Bulge set i got him about five years ago. he also has a European Diorama beautifully done in his room, he used baby powder for snow and it has around six GJ's crouching from the cold in a blown out building which you can also buy and add on to.



Please no lectures on "gun safety", it isn't loaded and this kid knows more about firearms, safety and firearm history than 99.9% of the packing adults.

he hunts, shoots, loads, cleans and SITES rifles beautifully. I know, he does mine.

[Minnymouth]

How neat!!!!

Nice looking kid too..........

Glad to know he is well educated in the use of firearms...... many children would be alive today if parents taught safety with firearms and kept them out of the reach of small children......

But shame, they don't, most just stick them in a closet and then some kid finds them and starts to play - then a major accident....

I am as familiar with my firearms as I am my pack of cigs.....

We grew up with firearms in the home as a kid, knew the reason for them, and the dangers of them...... it wasn't a "secret"..... so we did not hunt them to play with....

Don't get me wrong, most were under lock and key, (cabinet and gun locks)... but we also often had "hands on" experience with them from Dad...

Most kids now days find guns fascinating because they never see them or touch them and it makes them very curious.....

Many men and their sons hunt, or sport shoot..... just as they go fishing also.

I would much rather a boy KNOW ABOUT GUNS, the be "curious" about them.... IT'S A LOT SAFER............

[AMISLANDER]

He looks very intent! There will be no problems in that room!

[krobin02]

My dad had some hunting rifles when we were kids but never took us hunting. in fact, saying they were under lock and key is a bit of an understatement. Half of the gun was in his closet and the other half and the ammo was kept in my parents safety deposit box at the bank!

[SinkingFast]

Robivi,............. Did your son build the dioramas himself?? This one looks pretty detailed. Are the boys history buffs as well?? Our son is. He's a military history buff. Knows armaments and troop strengths and campaigns and such. Civil War is his primary interest, but he's learning about other wars as well.

[robivi3]

We keep ours in locked cases and the ammo is in the safe in my room. My son is into firearms and history. He branched out from the Civil War but that was the base start. It makes the history relevant and then ties in to the rest of the world. Since so many of us have traceable roots from that time it is a great starting point. For many of us we may or may not pre-date the revolution.

The sad thing is when a community is overrun by those who value the price of concreting a piece of land over any historical value. The fights to save what is left of SoFla's early history is over and lost to groups whose own PERSONAL history is rarely known even to them, so any American history is irrelevant and up for grabs. I speak primarily of Miami, the old Fort downtown and the graves and the old Coonite starch mill in North Miami. Oh, they have the usual bad Colombus tripe in good order but not the my Great-grandfather stood on this this rock and toted such and such rifle and fought on such and such road stuff. In other words history has a collective but not personal connection to most folks down here with the EXCEPTION of Cubans who kept and got their family records out somehow, I know some who still have their deeds, VERY SMART. Some of those family histories are traceable, unusual and go back very far, much further than most here can trace. The truth is Anglos bear much of the blame for Miami's destruction also, Miami Vice to me set a greedy. glamorous tone for this City that wasn't true, but folks took to it like glue and dress and attitudes changed here in the 80's.

We have a place called Bayside here that out of staters visit and say, "Oh how beautiful". They don't know that that was public land left to us generations ago for a 40 acre park which it was until 1985. I miss old Miami. I hate it when Don Johnson or anyone else declares that they put Miami on the map. "Yeah, you guys are right, you did, it used to be a nice, quiet small city", the response to that is usually a mouth left hanging unable to respond.

Down the road from me was where the second biggest Battle of the Seminole war was fought, fortunately part of that area is now Treetops park, very nice, the battle field is new homes.


On the Dioramas, yes my son took Audie Murphy's "To Hell and Back" (his second Bible) and re-created some scenes.

[13inOR]

Robi. my 14 year old son also has a very healthy and safe gun obsession. He loves anything about the civil war, and vietnam also. The military and history channel are his favorites and he soaks it up like a sponge! Not the war aspect for the violence of it of course, but the historical aspects and facts.

[robivi3]

I don't think it is an obsession. Human beings are geared for conquest and desire to win. Since the fall we have perverted what was meant for good, not to get preachy, and brutalized one another. As far as a young man having an interst in great feats of history I think that is desirable.

Two words changed peoples thinking on firearms in the 40's and 50's which carried over to the 70's and on up, "Gun bad". they were said by Tarzan but they imprinted a generation. Guns are not bad. After all Archie Bunker really did say it right when Gloria told him "Daddy 50,000 people a year are killed by handguns" and he replied "Would it make you feel any better if they was pushed out of windows?". Murder is in the heart. Australia has banned guns completely and crime has skyrocketed. In England burglary is literally a legitimate profession. I'll take my chances here and stay well armed.

The Greeks at Thermopylae had it best, at least they didn't die being spoonfed in a retirement home. I fear that the older i get far worse than death by firearm. What i wouldn't give to purchase the years back!

[SinkingFast]

You are a scholar and a gentleman, Robivi!

Before we moved, we did not have cable or a satellite dish. Just 8 or so regular channels. We watched a lot of PBS then. Now we have cable. We live where you only get one channel without it. The History Channel has become Son's fave!

I've heard about the Military Channel from family that live in other parts of the country. Guess our Cable company just doesn't offer it here. If they did, I know one young man who'd be an avid viewer!


Guns don't kill people. Husbands who come home early do!

[13inOR]

Robivi. I didnt mean obsession as a negative thing, I just meant that he really enjoys them, knows ALL about them, and is interested in them. : )

[robivi3]

If you feel that it is apprpriate he may want to read "To Hell and Back" just be aware that it is a more or less tell all book. Murphy told it like it was for the most part (fur lined foxholes and all). but it is a red-blooded book froma real American who had his moral compass pointed due north for the most part, in war and loneliness much is to be overlooked because of distance and being out of place.


My dad wrote his "tell all" and included all the sex (Stateside), he was old at the time he wrote it and i guess wanted to "fess up" though I did not see alot of regret. At 21 in NJ in 1942 for training he got alot more action than I did at that age (durin' mah sinnin' days).