Thanks for the welcome everyone.

JAD - I have seven year old twins. While I haven't yet started teaching them things like gun handling and actual shooting yet, guns are not an absolutely foreign thing to them either. They know dad owns guns and carries a gun, and they know why. I felt it was important for them to be comfortable seeing me with a gun, and that it wasn't a big deal to them. I don't know if de-sensitized is really the word I'm looking for, but something along those lines. We've had discussions about what to do if they ever were to find a gun, and that guns are tools and not toys. I think for a lot of kids (heck, a lot of adults too) who aren't exposed to firearms at all, they become this almost mythical thing that, depending on what side of the fence you're on, are either evil things to be petrified of, or just toys that they think are cool and awesome and aren't given the respect that they demand. I want my kids to be smarter than that.

I am very much looking forward to the first time I take them shooting.