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What's needed is more education on gun safety and less time spent in front of the tv playing video games.
No Maggie.
"What the **** is wrong with people??"
Is exactly what I am thinking reading your reply.
It makes no sense what-so-ever, and is just emotive codswallop.
It isn't a criminal offense. Nor should it ever be.
Secondly you seem to be jumping to conclusions.
How did he get it?
Do you know if it was locked away and he had to break-in to get it or not?
What's needed is more education on gun safety and less time spent in front of the tv playing video games.
What's needed is more education on gun safety and less time spent in front of the tv playing video games.
I agree. We need to get out the TRUTH that guns don't make you safer they acutually increase you chance of being shot or committing suicide. And that leaving a gun out for anyone to take is a crime punished with stiff penalties and a permanent ban from ever owning a gun again. That is the education that is needed.
I suppose then that you prefer letting the government protect you.
I prefer not to increase my chances of me or my family being shot like owning a gun does. I don't keep any live grenades around either.
What's needed is more education on gun safety and less time spent in front of the tv playing video games.
I suppose then that you prefer letting the government protect you.
Prove that the right to own guns is directly linked to higher crime and suicide rates. So by this logic, if guns were made illegal, crime and suicide rates would plummet.
Prove that the right to own guns is directly linked to higher crime and suicide rates. So by this logic, if guns were made illegal, crime and suicide rates would plummet.
Our children were deprived....when video games came out, I would not let them in our house. We had our kids involved in activities like baseball and softball, dance, scouts, camping and fishing with family, helping grandma and grandpa around their house, likewise with other elderly neighbors, etc.
They turned out to be college educated taxpayers.
Good thing the ACLU never found out....
the ACLU? or me?:2razz:Damned near unAmerican.
appears you choose to ignore reality
and that is your option to exercise
however, not for me
any 11/12 year old boy absolutely knows that weapons are something that cannot be taken to school
the only exception would be those who are of that pre-teen chronological age but with an intellect which does not match their years
so, if the kid arrived at school on a short bus, he gets a free pass
if not, book him dano
Suicide rates are higher is areas with long periods of gloomy weather....we should ban bad weather.
Gun safety training done with a video game?..
How about gun safety in a violent video game. XD
It would have to hidden somehow to keep the fun factor, but I would laugh at the sight of it.
I prefer not to increase my chances of me or my family being shot like owning a gun does. I don't keep any live grenades around either.
Some important statistics to keep in mind:
A little over half of all suicides in the United States use firearms.
More than 90% of attempts with firearms are fatal, far outweighing the success rate of other methods (such as drug overdose or cutting, which are about 3% successful) (source).
Suicides account for over half of all shootings.
Although most gun owners reportedly keep a firearm in their home for "protection" or "self defense," 83 percent of gun-related deaths in these homes are the result of a suicide, often by someone other than the gun owner. The majority of suicides are from an impulsive decision. Seventy percent of suicide attempters decide to kill themselves on an impulse - less than an hour before their attempt. The ready availability of guns makes for a deadly combination.
Ninety percent of people who survive a suicide attempt do not go on to die by suicide.
[And this one is for the parents out there. Do you want your child dead? Keep a gun available.
75% of youth suicides by gun used a parent's firearm
http://newtrajectory.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-problem-of-guns-and-suicide.html"]
Some important statistics to keep in mind:
A little over half of all suicides in the United States use firearms.
More than 90% of attempts with firearms are fatal, far outweighing the success rate of other methods (such as drug overdose or cutting, which are about 3% successful) (source).
Suicides account for over half of all shootings.
Although most gun owners reportedly keep a firearm in their home for "protection" or "self defense," 83 percent of gun-related deaths in these homes are the result of a suicide, often by someone other than the gun owner. The majority of suicides are from an impulsive decision. Seventy percent of suicide attempters decide to kill themselves on an impulse - less than an hour before their attempt. The ready availability of guns makes for a deadly combination.
Ninety percent of people who survive a suicide attempt do not go on to die by suicide.
[And this one is for the parents out there. Do you want your child dead? Keep a gun available.
75% of youth suicides by gun used a parent's firearm
http://newtrajectory.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-problem-of-guns-and-suicide.html"]
Do you know how he got it?Why do you ask how he got it? If it isn't wrong, what difference does it make?
Exactly. In your opinion.In my opinion, a responsible gun owner would never leave a potentially loaded weapon where a child could lay hands on it.
His thinking was not wrongheaded.Not only was he wrong-headed to think he could actually protect anyone with the gun,
Contradictory statements.Eleven-year-olds cannot be trusted to have access to loaded guns without adult supervision. Yes, "some" may be perfectly trustworthy.
I fail to see anything of merit in your argument.Had he killed a little kid? That dead kid's parents would own his parents' home, cars, money and anything else of value they had as "payment" for their dead kid and their failure to secure their weapons from a child.
I fail to see how anyone of sound mind can argue this point.
Do you know how he got it?
Exactly. In your opinion.
Well I know some 8 and 9 year olds that would find and retrieve that gun of yours no matter where you put it.
His thinking was not wrongheaded.
It was noble.
When I made my initial reply, I didn't know that the gun wasn't loaded. (And now I see that, although the gun wasn't loaded, he had ammunition in his backpack.) In my opinion, anyone who thinks it's just fine for parents to leave loaded guns or unloaded ones with ammunition accessible to young children is guilty of child endangerment. If not to their own child? Then to playmates.
Contradictory statements.
But yes, some 11 year olds can be. At one time they weren't the exception as they would be now.
I fail to see anything of merit in your argument.
If a parent keeps a firearm in the nightstand by their bed and the kid violates the sanctity of their bedroom and obtains it. I could not in good conscience hold the parents responsible for the actions of the kid.
Do you know how he got it?
Exactly. In your opinion.
Well I know some 8 and 9 year olds that would find and retrieve that gun of yours no matter where you put it.
His thinking was not wrongheaded.
It was noble.
When I made my initial reply, I didn't know that the gun wasn't loaded. (And now I see that, although the gun wasn't loaded, he had ammunition in his backpack.) In my opinion, anyone who thinks it's just fine for parents to leave loaded guns or unloaded ones with ammunition accessible to young children is guilty of child endangerment. If not to their own child? Then to playmates.
Contradictory statements.
But yes, some 11 year olds can be. At one time they weren't the exception as they would be now.
I fail to see anything of merit in your argument.
If a parent keeps a firearm in the nightstand by their bed and the kid violates the sanctity of their bedroom and obtains it. I could not in good conscience hold the parents responsible for the actions of the kid.