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Dave Kiffer: I LUV that gun! - It is hunting season again but my 3-year old son is not going to be heading out into the muskeg this year to bring home the venison. At least I don't think so.

Don't get me wrong. I can still smell the gunpowder from Dad's bullet loading station and I remember deer hanging in the basement. Just the thought of fresh venison makes my mouth start to water.

But I was emotionally scarred by the opening scene in Bambi. My idea of hunting is getting a clear shot at a nicely packaged rib eye or picking off a beautifully wrapped turkey roast on the wing.

My son's big game hunter aspirations will also be squelched by his mother. She says that all weapons are bad. Even toy ones. If nuture trumps nature then hunting or weapons will just not be an issue in our household.

You other parents out there are already smiling. Nature always trumps nuture when it comes to little boys and guns. Let me explain.

Maybe it was the time a couple years back when he pointed his bottle at me and made a very, very, very quiet little psshhh sound. I guess the milk acted as a "silencer". - More....
Saturday/Sunday - September 11, 2004