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Originally Posted by Howdy
My opinion is that guns and foster children don't mix. My daughter seems outwardly very normal and sweet, but she hears voices that command her to do things like start a fire or steal. She told me that she doesn't think she would kill someone if a voice commanded her to do so, but that she wasn't sure because it hasn't happened yet. 
Even "normal" teens can get pretty crazy and do amazingly stupid things that they "know better" than to do. A book I read said that during the brain development during the teenage years, there are times when the judgement, impulse-control (etc.) brain areas are "offline" while new improved brain areas start to take over those functions.
Also you need to consider that teens might take drugs that cause them to do outrageous things. One of my coworker's sons took Meth and then decided he wanted to die in a high speed police chase down the highway. He did succeed in getting his car chased by the police, but he did not die in the ensueing crash.
My daughter also is very smart and sneaky, searches my room when I'm not with her, and gets around computer security (which so far she has only used her powers for evil to remove the time blocks I had on her cell phone, she told me she was tempted to use my credit card to add money to her account but decided she'd get in too much trouble. She's only 12 yrs old. The teenage years will be interesting.). |
I can respect differing opinions, although what I was asking for was experience of people who own guns and do fostering.
Opinions are nothing to be upset about...on either side. It's when people start using their opinions to accuse other people of being irresponsible without any proof that upsets me.
And I hear you about teenagers. I was once one myself.
Fortunately, we have a while before we have to deal with that in our household, particularly because we will not accept any referral which would upset our biological birth order..and my youngest is 7.