My mother taught us all to shoot. She was a circus sharpshooter. We all have different thinking on it. My brother works for the feral animal eradication program, and he has many guns. I am still a licensed shooter, but I do not have any guns in the house. I practice about once a month, and I try to get out with my brother when I can. I mainly shoot cats and rabbits. Sorry to the cat lovers, but they are destructive when they are wild. (There you go, I've probably offended the non shooters and the cat lovers!)
My father says he knew he was going to marry my mother when she out shot and out rode him! He was a guest on her parents farm when he was on leave from the Army, and she was 14. They married 7 years later, after WWII.