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A Daisy Red Rider is a toy.
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No, it is not. Like any firearm, it has the potential to injure, maim and kill, and should be treated a such. Treating it as a toy is a much bigger mistake than using it on feral cats.
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The only thing you've taught a 16 year old kid is that killing is fun. He has learned nothing about ethics nor anything else.
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Eliminating nuisance animals such as feral cats is not "killing for fun". It's no different than setting mouse traps or shooting the woodchuck tunneling under your shed. Actively going out and shooting/killing people's pet cats is killing for fun. Killing animals for no reason other than to watch them die is killing for fun. Killing nuisance animals that have no other predators than man is doing a necessary evil. Eliminating pests that damage your home and may bring disease to you and your domestic animals is something many pay others to do. The boy not wanting to kill the kittens shows he has good ethics and I applaud him and his desire to now hunt game animals.
I too tho, would check local and state game laws concerning feral cats. Here we have no closed season on feral cats, and for good reason.