I am contemplating making a youtube vid just to prove that kids can be taught at a young age to understand the dangers of mishandling a firearm. My son is 25 months old and he already knows not to touch my guns. Before I go any further, let me say that even though he knows "NO TOUCH" there is no way I would trust him without me around as he is too young to trust completely and my guns are either locked away or on my person 100% of the time. I am not teaching him this to compensate for improper storage. Whenever I "practice" re-enforcement with him, I make 100% sure that the guns are unloaded, safe and clean. We are to the point now that when he sees my guns he shakes his finger and says "no no no Dadda". Every once in a while he will walk my wife or myself over to the closet and crack the door open, point to the safes and say "no touch Mamma". He even points to my right hip where I wear my holster and says no. Here is the most impressive part, we have taught him that if sees a gun he tells mamma or dadda to "touch" (that's how you tell a 2 year old to have someone else pick it up I guess lol). So were over a friends house for new years eve and he was playing with their kids. All of a sudden he came and got my wife and grabbed her hand so we followed. He brought her into the living room and pointed to a nerf rifle. Then he dragged her hand over to it and put her hand on and made her move it so he could keep playing.