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Trey Garrison Buys His 5-Year-Old Daughter a Gun

Posted on October 2nd, 2008 11:02am by Tim Rogers
Filed under Local News

As a father, not the way I’d play it. But as an editor, I like the DMN’s decision to publish this op-ed piece by our contributing editor. Spicy!

31 Comments to “Trey Garrison Buys His 5-Year-Old Daughter a Gun”

Sway @ October 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 am

Good article, great choice, I’ve done the same with my 8 year old son, well with the exception of the color pink. The earlier the better, that’s the way I learned.
Bethany @ October 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 am

I was just surprised you can get pink guns. Does pink negate the bad ass factor, though?
Trey Garrison @ October 2nd, 2008 at 11:15 am

Bethany — http://glamguns.com/storemain.html
Bethany @ October 2nd, 2008 at 11:26 am

There’s a Hello Kitty AK-47.
Puddin'Tane @ October 2nd, 2008 at 11:28 am

Right on.

Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it. ASV
Mike @ October 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 am

Did he just say that his wife has a Hello Kitty tattoo on her butt?
Nate @ October 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 am

You haven’t seen pink guns before? Do you not watch CMT Redneck Weddings? Every so often, the groom will buy his bride a new gun for their own wedding gifts…and I know of one guy who bought a .22 rifle in bright pink.
I'm Just Sayin' @ October 2nd, 2008 at 11:41 am

Ok, why did my word which means stupid and is spelled i-d-i-o-t get bleeped. Lower the filter people.
Bethany @ October 2nd, 2008 at 11:44 am

What is CMT?
Leftward Drift @ October 2nd, 2008 at 11:44 am

You may love DMN, but one arse at DMN no love Trey (see comments on both):

http://dallasmorningviewsblog......las-4.html

http://www.treygarrison.com/20.....ompassion/
drew @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm

I caught a snippet on NPR this morning on the trend to “pink it and shrink it” to widen the appeal of hunting to women. I guess it’s more literal than I realized.
Bethany @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm

That’s what SHE said.
diahh @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm

What is CMT?

Country Music Television.
publicnewsense @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Is there a Little Miss Six Shooter Beauty Pageant? A Little Miss Carbine? A Little Miss Missfire? A Little Miss High Calibre?
A Little Miss Birdshot? A Little Miss Recovering Accidental Gunshot Victim Pageant?
People teach their kids about automobile safety, too. Count the bodies.
Anybody who thinks kids learn lessons without testing boundaries is ridin’ at a gallop into the boxed canyon of “It surprised my ass.”
ChuckE @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm

That’s an “Hasta la Vista” Kitty AK-47.
Daniel @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm

An airgun is essentially a toy. The only way to hurt anything is to nail it dead in the eye — difficult but an oddly addictive endeavor; you could hurt yourself were you to shove it up your earhole and squeeze, but really, you just get this annoying diiiing sound for a couple hours and a kind of pleasantly zonked feeling inside the cranium of you.
Dutch @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm

Trey,
there’s a thread on rimfire central of other dads/moms who share their love of shooting sports with their kids.
check it out…
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/.....p?t=154318

if the 10/22 (i’m guessing) is too big for her, you might also check out a Cricket. bolt action .22 that’s sized just right for little ones.
cjr @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 pm

For those of you naysayers, laugh and complain all you want. We know who’s house you will be running to when the zombies show up…
Billusa99 @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pm

cjr… True Blood is just a TV show.
Sway @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 pm

I’m not crazy, nor am I an I-d-i-o-t, but as a tournament skeet and sporting clay shooter and the little sister of 3 police officers, guns were around and are still around my house. I would rather my son have the education than to be naive and not take guns seriously. Now I’m not saying guns sit around my house fully loaded, but as my son get’s older, the better he is educated the more caution and respect he will show when it comes to gun handling.
cjr @ October 2nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm

Billusa99, you mean True Blood isn’t a reality show?????????????? I can finally come out of my secret hidden bunker!
Bethany @ October 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm

No, YOU can’t.

I crack me up.
Just Another Redhead @ October 2nd, 2008 at 1:37 pm

I think Trey’s editorial is great. In my husband’s family the tradition is a 12-guage when you turn 12. We’ll continue that with our own family. Having gone shooting with people who were raised in families who learned to respect firearms and those who had no experience with them whatsoever, it’s amazing the difference in attitude and caution involved.

My first gun was a .22 Remington rifle left to me by my dad when he passed away. It has a copper-plated barrel that matches my hair. I love that gun.

Keep it up, Trey. You know I’m one of your biggest fans.
Bethany @ October 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm

Your hair is copper plated?
Puddin'Tane @ October 2nd, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Tim: the perfect HS graduation gift for your daughter.

http://www.berettagallery.it/i.....p;did=1286
Daniel @ October 2nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm

And hand grenades make great stocking stuffers. And sheep can be real purty when the evening light hits them just so.
publicnewsense @ October 2nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm

I’ll never forget that Christmas morning when my little tyke ripped open his new package of plastique, went outside and blew the outhouse to smithereens. …
Don in Austin @ October 2nd, 2008 at 2:47 pm

I think a better choice for sweet 16 would be a scoped .243 deer rifle and a father-daughter date to a hunter safety class. That’s also a dowry that a potential groom could be proud of. Trey’s not a nut, he’s just smart to educate his kid about potential hazards. Don’t mess with the electric cords, look both ways before crossing the street, don’t mess with the pistols.
jrp @ October 2nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm

who says Texans are a bunch of God-fearing, gun-toting nuts?
Trey Garrison @ October 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm

I’m only two of those things, jrp.
St. Benedictine @ October 2nd, 2008 at 10:42 pm

So Mr. Garrison claims he’s only educating his daughter about firearm safety when it’s plain that he’s really indoctrinating her into a paranoid gun culture. If he cared just about her safety, he could do what I did with my daughter: Have her take a lesson at a pistol range.

But then, that wouldn’t involve all the lovely, lovely firearm fetishism and his in-your-face courage in bragging about it, would it?

Enjoyed the James Bond detail about the hair and the spit as a ’search marker.’ Read an item years and years ago that said real spies never did any such thing. That’s because they assumed their rooms would be searched and simply never kept anything dangerous or incriminating in them — you know, like a gun.