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When I was 12 I was handed an axe and told to go chop down a tree. At 16 I built a chapel. But neither all on my own, I had adult supervision.
No I'm not amish, that's Boy scouts.
It's all about proper guidance and supervision. After 20 some years in that program, I've seen all types of young adults perform various acts that I've seen grown ups fail at.
You can't give a kid a tool like this, and expect them to treat it with the respect and care it deserves without some guidance.
<-- Eagle Scout, 35 yr BSA vet and 5x Philmont trips as a youth and 3x as an adult.
Stuff we did as kids would land us in prison now. My lunch box was a 50mil ammo can. My pocket always had a swiss army knife in it. Most of the time it still does. In HS, my trunk always had a hatchet, axe, bowie knife and a couple shotguns with a sack of ammo (dad ran the Skeet range where I worked reloading after school). Now, if kids even mention things like that in passing, police are called. Sigh, how times have changed. Not always for the better I am afraid.