Explain to your kids- Beer or Shotguns?

Yesterday, I finally got to fulfill a dream I have had for eleven years. I have waited for the day that I would take my daughter out into the Florida wilderness, and teach her how to use the family firearms. I was so proud as she stood there, so nervous and excited, pointing that urban combat 12 gauge shotgun at an old bucket. Then, pulling the trigger on my old Colt 45 auto, and watching it nearly come up out of her little hands. I wondered who she was seeing in that dirt mound she was destroying, and hoping it wasn't me. She did so well, I was glowing with pride. She is not a Tom boy, so I really didn't think she would go through with it. I will try to figure out how to get the camera phone video I shot onto this site for all to see. Now, here's the funny thing. Later on, she clearly expressed her new love of all things Ka-boom when she started asking about when she could hope to get her own guns. I told her of how I got a job, and bought my first Combat shotgun when I was only 18 years old, and how she could do the same. She asked "Daddy, how can you buy a gun at 18, but you have to be 21 to just buy a beer?" Well, out of the mouth's of babes, as they say. I then had to attempt to explain to her all of the ridicules laws we maintain in this country, even though they do not begin to make sense. She was so cute. I told her that, when she is 18, I will take her to get her own shotgun. We will blast the living shit out of something with a power of pure destruction that few folks will ever know. Then, I will stop off on the way home and get myself a cold one, and her a Pepsi, because even though she can own a tool capable of annihilating the store cashier, she sure as hell can't buy a can of beer from him- Draft age, drinking age, voting age, gun age, driving age?