So here’s the deal, I probably should’ve thought this one through before I jumped the gun and brought a red Ryder BB gun with a compass on the stock for my seven year old son‘s birthday. Wife and I have lived apart for a year after she asked for a divorce, which I gladly granted, not that I could stop if I wanted to, but I don’t. I’m not gonna pour my heart out with all the gory details and the bullshit and false allegations and the fact that she’s unwilling to seek employment, or that I’m living in a studio behind my parents house while I pay for everything in our house that she occupies and makes a little bit impossible for me to get in to get things I need. Point being, it’s beyond contentious and she’s tried to sling mud at me through the divorce process but it’s not sticking because it’s all bullshit and my oldest son is 16 so when we finally have the custody evaluation, that is if she keeps fighting me on the stuff, he’ll be asked if I was the abusive alcoholic she tries to make me out to be and he knows 100% that couldn’t be further from the truth

Back to my question, am I an idiot for buying a seven year old a BB gun? I really don’t want to return it and I have an air pistol that I like to shoot in the backyard and he loves watching me. It wouldn’t go back to his moms with him, it would be here in my possession, and hopefully needless to say he would never use it without safety protection, and 100% supervision , I like to find things to worry about when I can’t sleep and I was up half the night the other night thinking “what was I thinking?”. All right fellas, let me have it.