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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
You might occasionally get something gang related, but even that's normally going to be a stabbing.
Remember when people are allowed guns they're going to be long guns and have to be properly secured, with the police having to inspect and prove the storage place.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranBritish kids only get into firearm fights when they are trying to nick candies off the corner store
Also hooligans
But yeah. What the hell with this kid's parents. Irresponsible doesn't even begin to describe it.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesThat's the point. To quote Luminosity,
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My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Freedin Caucus backs Webster for House Speaker in a blow to McCarthy
The House Freedom Caucus announced its support for Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) after emerging from an afternoon meeting in the Capitol complex.
The endorsement deeply complicates Majority Leader Kevin O. Mc Carthy’s bid to succeed Boehner as speaker. But in an opening for the California Republican, caucus members said Wednesday that the endorsement is binding on members only for Thursday’s internal party vote and would not necessarily apply to the Oct. 29 floor vote.
But the endorsement Wednesday gives the caucus tremendous leverage to force Mc Carthy or any other candidate into adopting rules changes and policy positions favored by conservatives ahead of the decisive floor vote…
edited 7th Oct '15 4:04:21 PM by PotatoesRock
@jefferson county shooting: it shouldn't have happened, but with just what i've heard about the case, what happened might not actually have been -that- unreasonable on the parent's part.
It's approaching Deer Season, most hunters try to go to the gun range a few times before they actually go out to hunt, and it's not that unreasonable for them to have it under slightly less lock and key for that time period. Additionally, a good deal of hunting families take their young kids with them from a young age to teach them to hunt and to the ranges, so there's a chance he would've learned how to get out the guns from that. (He's 11, I've seen kids as young as 7 or 8 with their parents hunting or at the gun range) It's really shitty parenting that their kid didn't know not go get the gun and shoot people, but a hunting shotgun being easy to get out around hunting season makes sense.
"...but a hunting shotgun being easy to get out around hunting season makes sense."
No, it doesn't. I can buy that someone is stupid enough to leave it in a state like that but a kid having access to a gun is stupid full stop. I don't care how responsible a parent thinks their kids are. When they're not using the gun it should be under lock and key. Anybody that does otherwise should be charged with negligent endangerment of a child.
edited 7th Oct '15 5:11:34 PM by Kostya
I think everyone has had fantasies about harming people. It's a natural part of anger, even if our anger is focused on people we simply imagine. Imagining people who are committing crimes and that we don't know makes it easier to stomach the fantasy.
I don't think kids having access to guns is ridiculous, no. It'd vary case by case, and here he quite clearly shouldn't, but there are plenty of kids (generally from hunting families) that have hunted since age six and know full well what to do and not do with a gun. A gun being accessible by an eleven year old isn't ridiculous at all, he could've been hunting for five or six years by then, and ammunition being able to grab from around the house during hunting season doesn't strike me as odd at all.
So I don't think that it makes sense for them to throw parents who leave guns accessible to children in hunting families to be all that ridiculous, no. But, all of what I just said is under the assumption this is a big hunting family, and I could be entirely wrong on that. I don't know all that much about Jefferson County or the case, other then that Jefferson is supposedly rural.
Well considering ease of access to guns literally just led to the death of this girl. And numerous others if you wanna look that far back, I'd say that yeah guns need to be under heavy lock and key.
In what strange and fucked up world is a child having easy access to a gun a good thing?
edited 7th Oct '15 6:24:20 PM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?I find it interesting that there are minimum age laws or requirements for driving, drinking, sex, roller coasters, movies, videogames, staying alone at home etc. but not guns.
We can't trust you not to kill yourself home alone at age X, but you can shoot a gun.
edited 7th Oct '15 6:28:30 PM by nightwyrm_zero

Almost never, but they do sometimes stab their teachers
after calling them the n-word.
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