A generation ago, it was almost a rite of passage for a father to take his young, prepubescent son out to the back yard to teach him how to shoot his rifle.
Hunting trips are probably the most common form of male bonding.
However, in the past few decades, guns have predominantly moved from rural areas to urban settings. We have an image of America as being further advanced than the rest of the world in all areas. The rest of the world tends to follow the patterns that America sets. Last week's shooting incident in Jonesboro, Ark., in which two young boys fired into a schoolyard, proved to us that we don't live in an innocent world. We live in a society where deadly weapons are not just readily available, but are available to children who know how to use them.