Posted on 02/20/2016 10:34:18 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Link and title only.
Did a criminal give him the gun or did a family member make ta weapon accessible to the child?
How secured was the weapon and who is really responsible for guns with their children?
In the article.
I am careless, brainless and clueless, so totally qualified to pontificate and preach to the whole world.
Wooo hooo!!
Look at me when I talk to you!
Are you listening, dammit!!!
Don’t think - feel!
And they should be fully automatic belt-fed weapons, so's peasants like this woman don't feel too much pain before her bullet-riddled body falls into the trench...
Apparently the dad forgot to lock it back up after he and the deceased came home from the gun range.
Permanent solutions to temporary problems...
Obviously a horrible tragedy, but nothing that should result in taking away anybody's rights, or even punishing anybody, as far as I can tell.
Accidents will always happen with many aspects of society: guns, cars, building, medicine, alcohol and other drugs, machinery, water, whatever.
We can't eliminate all tragedies in society by imposing hysterical and arbitrary laws. Nor should we.
So I'm not sure what purpose the article serves, other than the aforementioned use as an attempt at fear-mongering propaganda by elitist authoritarian fools.
With a story like this, it’s all about the emotion of the moment. Thank
If the 12 yoa really wanted kill himself he would have found a means even if a gun was not available.
I started hunting on my own at 9 yoa guns were always available hanging on the gun rack.
We learned at a young age what they were for and what they could do.
There really isn’t any need to read it. We’ve heard every argument before. None of them come close to outweighing the reality that when citizens are disarmed, tyrants kill millions of them. Even if things got like Chicago in every city, and we had one of these kid suicides in ever city, every day, and we had a school ambush with multiple fatalities every day; as sad as this all might be, it would pale in comparison to the deeds of Adolf Hilter, Mao Tze Tung, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and others.
Know what? Know that her husband was an idiot for leaving an unsecured firearm around in a house with a young child? (Was he charged with child abuse and negligent homicide?)
But how is this different from all the other stupid things that parents may do that harms their children?
Statistically, having a swimming pool behind the house is much more dangerous than having a gun in the house.
They donated the money as the son requested.
So he left behind a suicide note... nice of the reporter to bring that up.
Why’d a 12 year old say something profane about the Vice Principal?
Why’d the parents race home KNOWING that something was up and worried he was going to run away? (Hint it wasn’t the first time this happened)
Was he on any psych meds at the time?
No no... the gun did it. Only the gun.
Not clicking.
I suspect that's true. When I was in junior high, there were twin brothers who were very competitive with each other academically, and one hung himself supossedly over a poor grade on his report card.
So how did mommy drive him to suicide?
The tipoff is that he waited to do it in front of her.
Interesting points.
#13 I was raised in a house that had many firearms. Several were on a gun rack in our bedroom. Big one -4 boys. No one got shot....
I raised my kid in a home that had funs in everyroom. She knew where they were and how to use them since she was 7-8 years old.
I refuse to let liberal Citiots tell me who is irresponsible when it is their kid doing the stupid stuff. Perhaps Xbox One wasn’t a great substitute for parenting after all.
If they hadn’t left the gun out, Max wouldn’t be dead by gunshot wound.
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