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I didn't say teenagers shouldn't be able to learn. But having their own guns is not an option IMO. They can borrow in very controlled circumstances.

Then why did you go after me for pointing out that some parents teach their kids how to hunt? That's literally what you're claiming to not be against.

And not allowed to purchase strong alcohol until 21, just like America.

No, not like in the US. Here, you can't get any alcohol under 21. That's the source of the taboo. High school students love to get older siblings and crappy parents to supply them with way too much alcohol and regularly host giant parties where they drink to the point of passing out or vomiting, and often drive drunk afterwards.

Thankfully for me, my parents took the European route, and let me have a beer with dinner on occasion, and that's it. It also helps that I don't like loud crowded parties so I rarely attended and generally left after a few minutes.

Knives are much easier to monitor and control by the supervising adult

Not really. A student can just go buy a knife from the local store or steal one from the kitchen outside of meal prep. If they wanted to, they could acquire one and shank someone without their parents knowing. Meanwhile in the US, a teen's main option for getting a gun trying to convince Uncle Cleatus to illegally sell them one, which he generally won't do because that's a felony with a 10 year sentence (though admittedly this was different 15-20 years ago).

But if you are in a plane accident, the chances of it being lethal to everyone involved is far greater than accidents in a car, statistically, surely. Nobody freaking survives a plane crash.

Your example doesn't fit very well. A plane crash will kill everyone, regardless if it's deliberate or a mistake. And it's very easy to mess up when piloting a plane.

A negligent discharge from a firearm is 1: not guaranteed to hit someone, 2: not guaranteed to kill someone, and 3: is going to be isolated to a single shot. You don't have guns spontaneously firing in all directions. Not only that, the 4 core rules of gun safety are very effective at protecting everyone in the general vicinity of a firearm, and they aren't difficult to teach and learn.

The main concern with minors having access to firearms is deliberate attempts at violence. I don't think I need to go into detail on why that's a larger problem for teens, but that's prevented by 1: keeping the guns in a safe that the kids/teens can't get in to, and 2: being good parents that communicate and support their kids.

Now I'm not one to say "everyone should have a gun" because that'd be fucking stupid. If you (or someone in your house) are depressed or you're a shitty parent then you shouldn't have a gun because it's just asking for trouble. But a lot of people build guns up in their head as some giant boogeyman that will go off on its own and murder everyone in the room like a rabid bear.

And don't get me started on a rant about the left's insistence on gun control and disarming themselves is contributing the the fascist takeover currently going on in the US.