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Common sense is notoriously short in five-year-olds.

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Get the boys started early learning to overcompensate for something they don't yet know they don't have. Keep the girls in their place with the Hello Kitty guns. Woman better be able to shoot, but I want my dinner on the table at 5. She better always look hot and pop out as many kids as I want her to.

Culture.

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Where's that Russian meteorite when you really need it?

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Trying to prevent stupid and pointless deaths is "politicizing" them. Well, yeah, that's how laws get passed, you moron.

(You can imagine this fuckwit after the Triangle Shirtwaist disaster, whining about the "politicization" of the tragedy.)

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Taboola says that us menz can forget about sit-ups. Way ahead of you, guys.

(Sorry, ladies! lol)

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He doesn't give a shit about other people's hearts being broken. Dead <i>other people's</i> kids vs. his right to fondle his guns? No contest.

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Because well-armed 5-year-olds are essential to the defense of our freedumbs. Just ask Joseph Kony.

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Given what just happened to this family's chances for passing on their genes, natural selection is probably not working to their advantage.

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I wrote to the company that makes the Cricket rifles for 5 year olds. I asked if they had something a little more powerful so my 5 year old kid could take down moose, bear and Tonka Toys. I included misspelled words so it should seem genuine. No response yet.

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There are a number of pink handguns marketed for women. <a href="http:\/\/pinkhandguns.com\/" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://pinkhandguns.com/">http://pinkhandguns.com/</a>

Also: <b>3-year-old S.C. boy killed after mistaking pink handgun for toy</b> <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/05/3-year-old-...">http://www.rawstory.com/rs/...

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A few problems with this country: 1. There are flying death machines which are, as we speak, creating additional enemies who will be a constant, pernicious affliction on all of this generation and the next. 2. There is a sea of guns in private hands which, even if we were to stop all sales tomorrow, would fill the needs of people who want to shoot other people for a century or longer. 3. Few people in power are much concerned with 1. or 2. If this were the slavery crisis we aren't at Jim Crow, we aren't at Reconstruction, we aren't at the Civil War, we aren't at the Missouri Compromise and Dred Scot, we aren't even close to the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. We are at the invention of the cotton gin and we're decades from any sort of solution.

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Pain fades. Shame doesn't.

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5 year olds have crappy aim. That's why they need the extended magazines.

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If you give the kids a few guns, people will STAY THE HELL OUT OF YOUR YARD.

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Well, as much as I like my individuality, twenty years in Montana have worn off on me.

All of my shoes have tread and I own exactly one pair of slacks and one suit jacket, which get worn only to formal weddings and funerals.

I used to hunt, until I decided that I dislike killing things, even to eat them. I do still fish, but catch and release, mostly.

Everything I own probably smells like my dogs, which come and go as they please.

And I drink beers with names like Moose Drool and Trout Slayer.

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better go with Stretch Armstrong

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