[A_Former_Democrat]

“Children should be learning to read and write, not to shoot a firearm,” Rosenthal says

What a dangerous POS GTH Rosenthal.

[Sacajaweau]

It teaches them the difference between real and play....a golden teaching opportunity for parents...and that is what they do. Everyone I know has personally taught their children about guns and all the associated safety issues.

[mylife]

What a misguided idiot.

[xkaydet65]

Does she know there are NYC HSs that actually have rifle teams??

[BitWielder1]

All children should learn how to swim and basic firearms safety. Early. Those are about equally important.
How to put on a condom can wait a little bit.

[TigersEye]

“Children should be learning to read and write, not to shoot a firearm,” Rosenthal says in a statement, ...

Because ignorance of the world around you is a Progressive value!

[LouAvul]

Well, I don’t go to gun shows anymore, but they should definitely ban strollers. Parents with infants in strollers blocking the isles.

[grobdriver]

If I were king every kid would be required to attend marksmanship classes.

BB-guns in grades 1 and 2, .22s in grades 3-6, .223 in grades 7-9, .308, 30-06, 7mm mag and such, and .45 ACP in grades 10-12.

The schools have an armory (and an armorer), indoor range for the small stuff, outdoor 200-yard range at the high schools.

What a wonderful world that would be!

[x1stcav]

This tw@t needs to be tarred and feathered.

[Chode]

[Made In The USA]

Thank God I got my family out of NYS and gave the kids an opportunity to grow up as TEXANS. Screw you rosenthal and all the other libtarded fools up there.

[longtermmemmory]

so NY allows minors in strip clubs WITH THEIR PARENT OR GUARDIAN but not in shows?

[GlockThe Vote]

I hate my state.

[coloradan]

I know there's a First Amendment and all, but I can't express how outraged I am that not only do libraries allow children inside, they even have a children's section!!!! Who is willing to argue that the First Amendment was meant to allow children access to high-capacity libraries with arsenals of millions of books? Who even needs a library? No one can read that many books. Sure, there's a First Amendment, but this is ridiculous. It's time for reasonable, sensible, modest, common-sense restrictions on libraries and access to books. Almost anyone can get a "library card" which allows people to not only read any book they want in a library, but even take it home where they could read such material without being monitored. The threat to public safety is intolerable!

[SECURE AMERICA]

Mam, in 6 short years that 12 year old could be in some foreign shithole like Afghanistan getting shot at by muslims.
Nothing wrong with them being at a gun show now!

[Real Cynic No More]

Someone should introduce a bill prohibiting the same age children from being taught about sex, going to the movies, taught to read, etc., just to show the idiocy of it all.

[Smokin' Joe]

My grand daughter (now 13) often accompanied me at gun shows when she was little.

There were always a few tables full of odds and ends and one of them had a bunch of glass "jewels" shaped like hearts and moons and such. She picked out a few and I bought them for her, which made her quite happy.

She gave me one, on the spot--a pink glass heart, which I carry to this day.

It reminds me that the love of a child is pure, durable, and transparent, but their hearts can be broken. It is also a reminder of the trust and strength there, and even as she enters her teen years, we remain close. (I taught her to shoot a few years later).

Now, I wouldn't trade that for all the tea in China, nor would I wish that anyone in the future be deprived of the opportunity to have a similar experience.

It isn't just about guns, but she has been pestering me to pick up an AR-15 just so she can shoot it, and has her eye on a couple of pistols for when she gets old enough...

That's my girl!

[Popman]

Man... the kool-aid must come out of the tap in NY...based on the level of monnbattery coming out of there....

[MasterGunner01]

Back in the days before Congress made mail order sales illegal by enacting the 1968 Cub Control Act, I bought a new Colt AR-15 SP1 Sporter for $189.50 + tax and shipping. That put me in good stead because I wound-up in Viet Nam (1969) assigned as a 2nd class Gunner's Mate (Guns) assigned to the Mobile Riverine Force (TF-117),

We debarked from our DHC-5 Buffalo at a forward airstrip near the joint Army-Navy base at Dong Tam. The Army SFC told me and the other Navy replacements to throw our sea bags in the trailer and climb aboard the 2-1/2 ton truck, He told us to grab a steel pot, flak jacket, and M16A1. All the guys with me were administrative types and had never seen an M16. I had to give these guys a fast weapons handling in the field lecture before we got underway. Fortunately, my familiarly with the AR-15 got me through this because the Navy hadn't trained me on this rifle.