so a bit of back story quick here...
I was loading up a couple of rifles into the truck this morning to go shoot with some friends a surprising and offensive pastime to be sure but I'm just a bad person like that...anyway, as I was loading everything into the back seat a kid from the neighborhood rode up on his bicycle and asked me if those were guns(one of the cases makes it kinda obvious) I told him yes they were for target shooting. He asked if he could look at them, I told him I'd do one better and teach him everything I could about them, but first he'd have to get his mom or dad to come down and talk with me this afternoon or tomorrow. I thought it was a nice offer...
His mom came down this evening and she disagreed quite a bit, not nice things were said which hurt my rather tender feelings...you all know what a sap I am... Anyway after we had our philosophical disagreement she said that I owed her an apology for making her the bad guy while I disagree with well most everything else I did feel bad about that part...
so the question to you parents out there is, in the future (because I'll tell anyone kid or adult that wants to learn more all I can about firearms etc), how can I phrase it so that I don't put the parents in a bad situation?
and do you think I was wrong to begin with?
Thanks
I was loading up a couple of rifles into the truck this morning to go shoot with some friends a surprising and offensive pastime to be sure but I'm just a bad person like that...anyway, as I was loading everything into the back seat a kid from the neighborhood rode up on his bicycle and asked me if those were guns(one of the cases makes it kinda obvious) I told him yes they were for target shooting. He asked if he could look at them, I told him I'd do one better and teach him everything I could about them, but first he'd have to get his mom or dad to come down and talk with me this afternoon or tomorrow. I thought it was a nice offer...
His mom came down this evening and she disagreed quite a bit, not nice things were said which hurt my rather tender feelings...you all know what a sap I am... Anyway after we had our philosophical disagreement she said that I owed her an apology for making her the bad guy while I disagree with well most everything else I did feel bad about that part...
so the question to you parents out there is, in the future (because I'll tell anyone kid or adult that wants to learn more all I can about firearms etc), how can I phrase it so that I don't put the parents in a bad situation?
and do you think I was wrong to begin with?
Thanks