Complacency kills. Note.... this is disturbing.
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That's really sad.
You could see the interest on the kid's face when the man put the gun down. I knew what was coming, I just didn't know who it would be. I am debating about showing this to my daughters.
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so many things wrong in that video, and so easily avoided. like a trainwreck you can see coming a mile away and no matter how much you try to warn people all you can do is watch it unfold. yes, training is required. so is common sense.
Hmmm. They're probably old enough, and from what I've seen smart enough, to know better. But better safe than sorry?
I can almost see something like that happening in the south valley. New Years, maybe? Well, many parts of NM actually.
I hate dislike stupid people like that. It almost makes me want to say "Some folks just shouldn't have guns." Unfortunately there are a bunch on the left who would use something like that to say exactly that, or more likely they'd leave the word "some" out of their statement.
How sad. I can remember knowing from the time I could walk that we were never to touch the guns without permission and without a grownup. There would be dire consequences if we did. I can remember asking Grandpa to show us his revolver, and he would bring us over to the nightstand next to the bed and open the drawer and we could look at it but we never touched it... almost like we were in a museum and were told not to touch anything. My dad used to keep a loaded .22 behind the front door at his house; he needed it there to grab and shoot dogs or coyotes that got after his chickens or calves. Even my step-brother, messed up kid that he was, knew better than to touch it without permission, though Dad took us target practicing and turkey hunting fairly often.
We had a different set of rules in our house for our kids than most. They start like this....
1) Never touch a gun unless dad hands it to you.
2) You can look at and touch a gun anytime you want, just ask dad to hand it to you.
I didn't want my kids to think of them as an ultimate taboo sort of thing, as I thought it might get their curiosity going. If they ask to see one, I make a big deal out of always checking to see that it is unloaded, and carefully watching which way they point it when they hold it. My kids got to where they didn't care to see them (unless I brought home a new one ;D) by about the time they were 10.
My oldest daughter started shooting sporting clays when she was 13, so she is comfortable, and thinks of them as tools. The younger one is still in the .22 phase and is too slender to move up yet. I'm not hoping that they will be as enthusiastic about collecting as I am, but I am determined that they will be tolerant and supportive of the 2nd amendment, and smart about how to handle them.
Sounds like good training and policy, Frank.
Hopefully the second amendment will survive current and coming events.