How would you have reacted?

You did right by your family and the boy too. He HAD to learn something.

Biggest azzwhuppin' my Pop ever gave me was when I was 8 ( 1960 ), I stayed home sick from school. When everyone left I took my winchester .22 pump Pop jus gave me out back and shot at ducks in the lake behind our house. After about 15 minutes Pop showed up ( neighbor called'm at work ) and gave me a well deserved session with the belt.

He took the .22 and nailed it to the wall over the fireplace for 2 years before it was mine again.

I dunno why firearms safety isn't taught as SOP in school. It should.
 
HH, reminds me of a story a friend of mine tells. he got one of his dads guns when all were gone and was "pretend" hunting Zebra while Wild Kingdom was on TV. you guessed it, it was loaded and the family came home to a freshly killed RCA...
 
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