Any two people will certainly attach different levels of importance to what they observe, I agree. Given that this behaviour was learned by observation, societ

Any two people will certainly attach different levels of importance to what they observe, I agree. Given that this behaviour was learned by observation, society's existing gender norms - and specifically those around guns - would also have been observed and learned. We can't separate these, in this anecdote. Would we not expect to observe the son to engage with more caring play if the stay-at-home parent (primary carer) had been the dad?