Kindergartner brings gun to Texas school!

Fish In The Water · 04-20-11, 04:46 PM

Wow...

I guess I'll ask the obvious question: What were the parents thinking? "Sure hon, leave the loaded gun laying around where little Jimmy can get a hold of it, what could go wrong?"

Platapus · 04-20-11, 04:47 PM

Parents like this give responsible gun owners a bad name.

I hope they go after these parents.

GoldenRivet · 04-20-11, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Parents like this give responsible gun owners a bad name.

I hope they go after these parents.

agreed, this is why guns go in safes, or on the top shelf of the closet in a lock box with a trigger lock.

personally, I didnt have unsupervised access to firearms until i was 16

Freiwillige · 04-21-11, 12:28 AM

Agreed. Nail the parents to the cross on this one.

Feuer Frei! · 04-21-11, 01:02 AM

CNN link dead.

Found thos from last year, very very similar:
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-kinder...,2881480.story

B.O.T.:

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Officials said the children, who were struck either by a single bullet or fragments from it

SOURCE

Was wondering about this actually.
How 3 people could get hurt by this.
1 i could understand, mayyybee 2, but 3?
Anyone confirm this can indeed happen? 1 bullet, 3 hits, by a dropped weapon? Or fragments?

Not to lessen the fact that thank God no-one was seriously injured, or worse, killed.

onelifecrisis · 04-21-11, 03:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus

Parents like this give responsible gun owners a bad name.

"responsible gun owners"

That's a good one!

04-21-11, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

"responsible gun owners"

That's a good one!

Not sure if troll.

Molon Labe · 04-21-11, 02:40 PM

If responding with an F-bomb is an understandable and entirely appropriate response, then yes, it's a troll.

GoldenRivet · 04-21-11, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

"responsible gun owners"

That's a good one!

They exist.

You can tell a responsible gun owner when you go to his home, and perhaps aside from the 200 year old antique musket above his fireplace mantle, you can't really tell whether or not he actually owns any working guns.

onelifecrisis · 04-21-11, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by CptLolPants

Not sure if troll.

Haha, that's cute, especially from someone who registered only days ago and has a whopping 8 posts worth of experience here.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Molon Labe

If responding with an F-bomb is an understandable and entirely appropriate response, then yes, it's a troll.

I didn't see anyone drop an F-bomb.

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

They exist.

You can tell a responsible gun owner when you go to his home, and perhaps aside from the 200 year old antique musket above his fireplace mantle, you can't really tell whether or not he actually owns any working guns.

Well if you say so GR, but that seems a little off topic. Back on track, here are some ways to prevent your child from getting his or her hands on your gun:

1) Keep the gun locked in a safe protected by DNA-sampling, eye-scanning, voice-sampling technology. And never, ever forget to put it in there after you're done playing with it.
2) Don't own a gun.

The second one seems a lot simpler to me.

GoldenRivet · 04-21-11, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

Well if you say so GR, but that seems a little off topic. Back on track, here are some ways to prevent your child from getting his or her hands on your gun:

1) Keep the gun locked in a safe protected by DNA-sampling, eye-scanning, voice-sampling technology. And never, ever forget to put it in there after you're done playing with it.
2) Don't own a gun.

The second one seems a lot simpler to me.

To each his own in that regard.

I could avoid being in a car accident by not owning a car, but i chose to own one.

Electing not to own a gun is just as much of a right as owning one is, and i fully respect your decision not to own one.

but the funny thing is you never see attempts to pass legislation requiring you to buy a firearm... the opposite is constantly true.

As for the gun safe: i think DNA / retinal scan / voice recognition lock tech is a little much for storage of just about anything in any average home.

a 4 to 6 digit pin code lock like the one i linked to earlier for only $80-100 will suffice. unfortunately, many people chose not to use locks at all.

for a large gun collection a rifle safe with a combination lock should do the job. (I didn't have the combination to my dad's rifle safe until i was 21 years old! despite the fact that guns I OWNED were inside of it)

I elect not to lock any of my firearms meant for immediate home defense, and why should i? i don't have children about.

but if there are children routinely in the home for any reason - whether they reside there, or you baby sit them once in a while... lock up any and all firearms.

onelifecrisis · 04-21-11, 06:34 PM

Fair point with the car accident, GR. My counter: a car serves a practical purpose, a gun does not. Yes, you can shoot deer with it. Or you can just buy venison from the supermarket (much easier IMO). Yes, you can defend yourself with it... and tell me, how many times have you ever had to? I often see gun owners on this forum talking macho about what would or would not happen if someone tried to break into their house, molest their daughters, or whatever, but has any of that actually ever happened to you? Ever? Yes a car can kill, but that's not what it's designed for and driving to work is something I have to do every day - how many days a week do you have to shoot someone?

Schroeder · 04-22-11, 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

As for the gun safe: i think DNA / retinal scan / voice recognition lock tech is a little much for storage of just about anything in any average home.

You'll only need a fingerprint reader. My safe has one and even my car's GPS has one. It's no big deal at all and comes at a cheap price. While those things of course always come with a backup key /password you won't need them often and therefore you don't need to go and get them every now and then, making it much more difficult for junior to find out where you are hiding them.

Ducimus · 04-21-11, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

1) Keep the gun locked in a safe protected by DNA-sampling, eye-scanning, voice-sampling technology. And never, ever forget to put it in there after you're done playing with it.
2) Don't own a gun.

The second one seems a lot simpler to me.

Since your presumably from England as your location says as much, i suppose the 2nd option makes alot of sense to you. However to an American, it does not. Our culture has its colonial roots you know.

Cohaagen · 04-21-11, 09:18 PM

That Yamamoto quote is a favourite line of right-wing internet posters, often cropping up in their signature along with George Orwell's "we sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf".

Unfortunately, like the Orwell quote, it is completely bogus. The man never said such a thing. Ironically, it was the likelihood that there would have been a rifle behind every blade of grass in Japan that in part led to the decision to drop the A-bomb instead of invading.

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,362 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Parents like this give responsible gun owners a bad name. I hope they go after these parents. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Molon Labe Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Along the Watchtower Posts: 3,810 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 5	If responding with an F-bomb is an understandable and entirely appropriate response, then yes, it's a troll. __________________

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onelifecrisis Maverick Modder Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England Posts: 3,895 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 3	Fair point with the car accident, GR. My counter: a car serves a practical purpose, a gun does not. Yes, you can shoot deer with it. Or you can just buy venison from the supermarket (much easier IMO). Yes, you can defend yourself with it... and tell me, how many times have you ever had to? I often see gun owners on this forum talking macho about what would or would not happen if someone tried to break into their house, molest their daughters, or whatever, but has any of that actually ever happened to you? Ever? Yes a car can kill, but that's not what it's designed for and driving to work is something I have to do every day - how many days a week do you have to shoot someone? __________________ Freedom of speech - priceless. For everything else there's Mastercard.

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04-20-11, 04:46 PM	#1
Fish In The Water Prince of the Sea SUBSIM Welcome Committee Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Watching over U-253 Posts: 3,527 Downloads: 98 Uploads: 2	Wow... I guess I'll ask the obvious question: What were the parents thinking? "Sure hon, leave the loaded gun laying around where little Jimmy can get a hold of it, what could go wrong?"

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Freiwillige The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Phx. Az Posts: 1,458 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Agreed. Nail the parents to the cross on this one.

04-21-11, 09:18 PM	#15
Cohaagen Frogman Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK Posts: 296 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	That Yamamoto quote is a favourite line of right-wing internet posters, often cropping up in their signature along with George Orwell's "we sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf". Unfortunately, like the Orwell quote, it is completely bogus. The man never said such a thing. Ironically, it was the likelihood that there would have been a rifle behind every blade of grass in Japan that in part led to the decision to drop the A-bomb instead of invading.