In News of Responsible Gun Owners today, we have the story of some loving parents who know that you can never start too soon when it comes to putting firearms into the hands of your tykes. Sure, maybe in the olden times you might give your kid a .22 rifle so that they can become accustomed to safely handling weapons, but that's so passé! Instead, why not be like the parents of a nine-year-old girl from New Jersey, who took her to the Last Stop shooting range so she could learn how to
When you go to the county fair and they have a machine gun that shots BB's (you have to remove every bit of the red star on the paper target to win a prize) the muzzle of the thing is chained to the front counter. Why in the world would someone let a child fire a real machine gun with no chain or even a damn bungee cord attached to the business end of it?
No, the memory will suddenly rush in one night when she is having trouble getting to sleep, and just as suddenly she will feel an incredibly cold chill down her back while at the very same time her face will feel hot as a branding iron. For what feels like an eternity she will find it very difficult to breathe. Then she will wail like a banshee. This is by far the more likely reaction. She will feel like her life up to that moment has been a fraud, a complete lie. She will feel like the most evil person who ever lived, and wonder how in the hell she is still alive. None of this will be true of course, but it will take her years to realize it, if she ever does at all.
Two people lost their lives that day. One of them will be put in the ground. The other one will go home with her parents to New Jersey. Every gun-related incident destroys multiple lives.
Really -- handing an Uzi on full-auto to a child, resulting in somebody getting killed, is something that anybody would expect to have happened more than once in the United States of Armerica. It's dumb luck that the death toll (so far) is only 2.
Not sure about the "qualified" part. I've not seen mention of his leaving a widow or kids behind, so this guy might well be a Darwin Award contender.
NRA version of common sense: "Be careful when handing a loaded, fully-automatic weapons to a child." Because "Don't give automatic weapons to children, you fucking idiots!!!" is not at all sensible.
What kind of parents think it's okay to even take a young child to a shooting range, let alone put a high-powered weapon in her tiny hands, to satisfy some sick fantasy of their own? This is child abuse.
When you go to the county fair and they have a machine gun that shots BB's (you have to remove every bit of the red star on the paper target to win a prize) the muzzle of the thing is chained to the front counter. Why in the world would someone let a child fire a real machine gun with no chain or even a damn bungee cord attached to the business end of it?
No, the memory will suddenly rush in one night when she is having trouble getting to sleep, and just as suddenly she will feel an incredibly cold chill down her back while at the very same time her face will feel hot as a branding iron. For what feels like an eternity she will find it very difficult to breathe. Then she will wail like a banshee. This is by far the more likely reaction. She will feel like her life up to that moment has been a fraud, a complete lie. She will feel like the most evil person who ever lived, and wonder how in the hell she is still alive. None of this will be true of course, but it will take her years to realize it, if she ever does at all.
Two people lost their lives that day. One of them will be put in the ground. The other one will go home with her parents to New Jersey. Every gun-related incident destroys multiple lives.
Some gun-fondler on Daily Kos started his comment with "Any instructor with half a brain..." Is it bad that I larfed?
Really -- handing an Uzi on full-auto to a child, resulting in somebody getting killed, is something that anybody would expect to have happened more than once in the United States of Armerica. It's dumb luck that the death toll (so far) is only 2.
They might try . . . but the GOPtards will refuse to fund the enforcement effort.
Will is the only non-white employee in the place.
Everywhere but the State Lege. They're idiots, but they're not stupid.
Not sure about the "qualified" part. I've not seen mention of his leaving a widow or kids behind, so this guy might well be a Darwin Award contender.
NRA version of common sense: "Be careful when handing a loaded, fully-automatic weapons to a child." Because "Don't give automatic weapons to children, you fucking idiots!!!" is not at all sensible.
"If only the instructor had had a gun..."
Berore teh NRA was taken over by paranoid right-wing loons, also, too.
21-Gun salutes would be a heck of a lot more interesting, too.
There's at least one 9-year-old who disagrees.
I'm surprised that a bullet in the brain killed this guy . . . it's not like he was using it or anything.
What kind of parents think it's okay to even take a young child to a shooting range, let alone put a high-powered weapon in her tiny hands, to satisfy some sick fantasy of their own? This is child abuse.
Somewhere in here is a whole new verse of "Isn't it Ironic?"