Will teaching children aged 12-14 how to shoot at summer camp make them violent?

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My parents invested in a summer camp. Not a day camp, but a stay a week or two (maybe the whole summer) type of place. They now own a 25% share. Part of the deal is I get a summer job there. The camp is very sports oriented.
Basketball, baseball, tons of tennis, etc. I played two years of Men's Basketball and Baseball in a large Division I school in the NJCAA (Jr. and Community Colleges) with a partial scholarship for each sport so school more or less cost me nothing.
Last year I played Short Season A Baseball. This year I would probably have played Long Season or Advanced A Baseball had my parents not got me this job. I took this year off from school, but next September I will go back. I figure I will be a gym teacher and probably a high school baseball coach at some point.
What I'd really like to see at the camp, for the first time in about 20 years, is a shooting program. I know there are several "classic" Crosman 766 rifles in storage. I bet they haven't been fired in my lifetime. I don't even know if they still work.
I never got to do this kind of thing as a kid. I think it would be very cool to bring it back. My parents say "no way". There is another partner also with a 25% share and the founder still owns a 50% share. He's about 80 and no longer directly involved. He is a retired school teacher. He's been selling off part of the camp to whoever he can. He wants $60,000 for the remaining 50%.
Is this something I should go for?
 
I fail to see any connection between shooting sports and violence, except that teaching kids a healthy respect for firearms will make them less likely to hurt somebody in a firearms accident.
There are too many unknowns for us to evaluate your real-estate situation.
 
Teaching children how to operate a fire arm and what happens when it hits...."should " make them more responsible with fire arms......
Like a friend of mine once told me when he came back from a defensive hand to hand tactics class
the instructor a highly trained police officer who was quite a formidable fighter said:When you finish this class , you will either be a competent police officer....or a very dangerous criminal
 
I think your idea is an excellent one. Teaching kids to shoot in no way contributes to violence. In fact, just the opposite is likely. It teaches responsibility and respect.

As for investing, if the camp is profitable then it seems to be a good idea.
 
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