Actually, my parents were members of Betar, and raised money for the Irgun in the '40s. Starting when I was four and a half I went to Betar camps in the summers, and my first cabin counselor was the camp's rifle instructor. So I learned about the right way to use (and appreciate) guns from earliest babyhood.
Until I was ten I would spend eight weeks in the country upstate NY with these people every summer, and they taught me how to be a twenty first century Jew. Then I went to a YMCA camp for a few years, after that I did Outward Bound.
I consider that to be a well rounded education in self reliance and the outdoors, and I have tried to do somewhat the same for my own kids. Of course, by the time they came along the Irgun was considered (in some circles) to have been a terrorist organization, but Jabotinsky, the founder of Betar, is still widely considered to be one of the first Zionists, and a visionary.
I taught my kids about firearms and the outdoors myself. I am not sure my father knew which end of a gun the bullets came out of. He could kill with a look, though.
In the mid twentieth century, millions of Jews were led to the slaughter like cattle. Twenty first century Jews will not go anywhere near as gently into that good night.
The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys 
