When he gave us our air-riffles Atticus wouldn’t teach us to shoot. Uncle Jack instructed us in the rudiments thereof; he said Atticus wasn’t interested in guns. Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”From To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I wern't smart enough to read it yet
, but my daughter pointed that passage to me today after a conversation about blue jays
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