Family Phil: Hanging Out w/Doty Boys @ Fernan

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We hung out with the Doty Boys today. Well, actually, my wife and I took the kids to a fishing derby at Fernan Lake and ended up sharing dock space with a local homeschooling family that has been in the news recently . The Doty Boys have started carrying guns with them everywhere they go. Not because they’re violent or fearful, but to prove a point about the Second Amendment, I suppose. Zach, 18, carries a loaded handgun, while his brother Stephen, 15, carries a .22-caliber rifle slung over his back. That’s Stephen and a younger brother in the picture above. See the blue chair behind them? That’s mine. Were we nervous to have a pimply-faced teenager carrying a loaded weapon ten feet away from us? Not really. I was more scared of his sister, who kept trying to clumsily cast a fishing pole right next to me. I kept waiting for a hook to slash through my jugular — Family Phil / A Family Runs Through It .

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Question: Do you think the gun-toting Doty brothers reflect poorly on home-schoolers?