MaggieD
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If someone owned a dog, and made sweet love to it, married it etc. would you also say "What's the matter with dog/pet owners?? WTH are they thinking???":lol:
My point here is why group ALL gun owners with a single event. It does not make sense.
right! but i can visualize this happening due to the child's age.
When I was young one of the other kids brought a bullet to school, we managed to set it off in the bathroom. Not to mention the M80s we brought when we could get our hands on them, light em and flush them down the toilet (at school of course). There wasn't a boy in attendence who didn't have a pocket knife on them, and we all did stupid things with them (at school).
However, I agree the parents should be charged if it's their weapon. It's just common sense, here we have this national tragedy, the first thing a thinking person would do is to check to see that their children did not have access to the parents' guns. Safety 101.
He neatly illustrates the falsehood that possessing a gun makes you and your friends safer. He can't be blamed for thinking that, it's the prevailing meme. The gun's owner should be charged with child endangerment or whatever.
His father and/or mother should be thrown in jail. There is absolutely no freakin' WAY!!! a kid his age should have access to a gun. What's the matter with gun owners?? WTH are they thinking???
Let's not be too quick to indict all gun owners because these parents were lax. And we don't know the rest of the story yet. I agree, a kid his age shouldn't have access to a gun without meaningful supervision.
I can visualize it happening no matter the age of the user. A child his age however can very well understand gun safety and practice it accordingly.
I'm not indicting all gun owners. I'm a gun owner. But I sure as **** know better than to leave it around where a sixth-grader can get his hands on it. I don't have any kids. Don't have many kid visitors. But even when I have strangers in my house (repair people and the like), my gun is out of their reach even if they're LOOKING for it. Really. How stupid can people be?
Kid takes his mothers guns and shoots 26 people. Other families with guns and youngsters in the house don't change a thing in their house. Unbelievable.
I can visualize it happening no matter the age of the user. A child his age however can very well understand gun safety and practice it accordingly.
Oh, Jesus Christ. I'm making the assumption he got this gun from home. If a gun is available to a sixth-grader, the gun owner ought to be in jail. What the **** is wrong with people??
His logic stunk.
That he had a right to do it and it was ok because it would make his school and friends safer. NOT.
The real question is why did he think it was ok and why did he think it would make everyone safe. thats the crime around the crime.
The real question is why did he think it was ok and why did he think it would make everyone safe. thats the crime around the crime.
I'm not saying kids should handle such a task, or that we should expect such a thing, but at his age he is capable of doing such a task.
But he doesnt know when and where to use his "gun safety and practice". That should be taught first.
That's probably the most ridiculous post I've ever read on Debate Politics.
That's probably the most ridiculous post I've ever read on Debate Politics.
That's his purported excuse for bringing the gun to school and mugging around with it. We don't know how sincere or true the excuse is. We don't know who the gun belongs to or how the kid got his hands on it. Making suppositions without actual data.
Why though?
I don't see how that makes sense. It wouldn't make a difference where the child is if he is able to handle the gun safely. Why do you think rules that are outside of gun safety have anything to do with it?
You haven't been reading very many posts, then.
I get this is a touchy issue....but the emotional, knee-jerk, hyperbolic reactions aren't really helping anything.
An 11-year-old's brain is 10-11 years from being fully cooked. Many scientists believe that critical decision-making skills aren't fully developed until age 25. An 11-year-old is still looking for monsters under his bed, for God's sake.
Really? What the ****'s the matter with people??
I call 'em like I see 'em. To say that an 11-year-old is capable of defending himself or his classmates by bringing a gun to school is ridiculous.
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