Someday I plan to learn how to shoot. If I learn how to properly care for a gun and how to shoot it, I might buy one. Someday.
One bit of sage advice for future gun experience with a positive outcome. The techniques used for archery & crossbows is exactly the same for fundamentally handling a gun as well. So if you want to get a good used bow and quiver and eventually a bail of hay/straw then you can take to YouTube for videos on how to's:
A) breathing
B) hand stiffness yet, not deathgrip
C) solving the dominant eye trivia
D) holding breathe & exhail for each shot
E) shoulder & stance (relaxed but still & firm)
F) meditation on visualizing the arrow(and eventually bullet) hitting the exact spot on the target your aiming for.
G) cheaper still is the wrist rocket/slingshot with surgical tubing and a small leather cup for a pebble/stone/beebee's for very beginning cheap entry into dexterity improvement as well as the above points too. [ETA part 2 was "g"]
Currently working with our 14y/o girl with her 1st compound bow. My uncle wrote a book for this and was a coach for the US Olympic team many years ago..... So yeah, I am admittedly biased for the arrow & bolt vs. the slug & bullet/shot.
We will be doing the other two younger girls soon as well.
[ETA: my experience with both forms of tools/weapons is where I am coming from. From the antique rifles, revolvers, single shot pistols, to my time in military with 9mm & 45's, Mossberg 500, & the m-14 &16's.]