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I completely agree with encouraging him to be a kid and keep him away from a monitor as long as possible, but to suggest equipping a kid with a BB gun to terrorise the neighbourhood cats is appalling. You may or may not like them, but they're living things and they feel pain and fear just as much as humans do, and they have just as much right to go about their lives without being shot at.

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Another cat apologist. They shit in my garden, kill all the local wildlife, piss everywhere, try and break into your house, scratch your kids up, lick their worm-ridden arses and only show intelligence with respect to jealousy and self interest.

Fuck 'em all.

Kid with a BB gun is a natural predator.

There may have been some tongue in cheek exaggeration in the parent comment. Go out and be wild, at any rate.

Fuel & electric motors and electronic kits make good hands-on toys at that age as well, to see things working. Bikes, guns, and other implements of destruction are cool too (one can stay within the bounds of wrecking things that were due for it anyway)

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