How Stupid Can a Parent Be?

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Well, check out this dad having his young daughter shoot a 40 Caliber. And note how close the gun comes to her head because she's too young to have the grip strength for that much recoil. And, to protect her hearing, he sticks his fingers in her ear, which means early hearing loss for her. And, of course NO eye protection. I'm all for mandatory sterilization.
 

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wcwbf said:
how about parent of autistic (though highly functioning) HS age boy allowing him to go out Halloween (trick or treating) in full camo and his "air soft guns strapped on!
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At least his parent didn't give him a real gun, like Adam Lanza's Mother.
 
It's bad enough that there are parents like this, but putting it out in public? "Hey, everyone, look how stupid I am! I want attention so bad, I'll even risk my child's life to get it."
 
win231 said:
It's bad enough that there are parents like this, but putting it out in public? "Hey, everyone, look how stupid I am! I want attention so bad, I'll even risk my child's life to get it."
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And his own life.

I can't help but think about the shooting range incident where the young girl killed the instructor account recoil from the automatic weapon.
 
Aunt Marg said:
And his own life.

I can't help but think about the shooting range incident where the young girl killed the instructor account recoil from the automatic weapon.
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Well, actually, he didn't risk his own life. Watch the gun at the end of the video. The slide is locked back. It automatically does that on the last round fired, which means he only loaded one round in the gun to make sure it would be empty after one round was fired. He's lucky he did that because a Glock has a light trigger - 5.5 lbs & he knew she could have tensed up & squeezed the trigger again out of fear while the gun was pointed in an unsafe direction - like behind her, at her father's head. (which probably wouldn't be such a bad idea)
 
win231 said:
Well, actually, he didn't risk his own life. Watch the gun at the end of the video. The slide is locked back. It automatically does that on the last round fired, which means he only loaded one round in the gun to make sure it would be empty after one round was fired. He's lucky he did that because a Glock has a light trigger - 5.5 lbs & he knew she could have tensed up & squeezed the trigger again out of fear while the gun was pointed in an unsafe direction - like behind her, at her father's head. (which probably wouldn't be such a bad idea)
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You're right, I missed the slide action.
 
Aunt Marg said:
And his own life.

I can't help but think about the shooting range incident where the young girl killed the instructor account recoil from the automatic weapon.
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That was a situation involving a fully automatic weapon - which continues firing rapidly as long as the trigger is held back. Without a firm grip on the front, the weapon will climb up in recoil until it's empty. A really stupid choice for a beginner.
 
I'll describe a couple of incidents with a woman I was seeing 8 years ago. It caused a big fight.

We went to her son-in-law's house that he just bought to check it out. They had 2 children, 6 & 8.
When I walked by their minivan, I saw a gun grip in the back seat, protruding from under one of the kid's coats.
Since I'm a gun guy, I recognized it as a Colt Govt. 45 Auto.
I asked my girlfriend why her daughter had a gun in the back seat, accessible to her kids.
She said, "Oh, it's just a BB Gun; it's not a real gun; don't be so paranoid."
I said, "You know I'm a competitive shooter, collector, & instructor & I thought it was real. What do you think would happen if a police officer saw it during a traffic stop? Your daughter would be quickly looking down the barrel of his gun. He might even panic & shoot. And who could blame him?"
She actually said, "Naw, he'd be smart enough to know it wasn't a real gun." This was a reasonably-intelligent woman. I just shook my head.

A few weeks later, we went back to the house for a visit. Their son was playing with that same gun. He was chasing his sister around the driveway, shooting it at her. I didn't know there were any pellets in the gun until one of them hit me, leaving a bruise on my arm.
I went in the house & told their mother, "Do you think it's a good idea to let your son shoot at his sister with that BB gun?"
She said, "Not really. He's been shooting at grapefruit on the trees & I keep cutting open grapefruits & finding pellets in them."
I said, "If the pellets penetrate a grapefruit, what do you think they would do to your daughter's eye? She'll have many years of blindness."

"Like mother, like daughter..........."
 
win231 said:
At least his parent didn't give him a real gun, like Adam Lanza's Mother.
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My 1st reaction to the original post was to fuss at you....
"WHY ASK.... TOO MANY WILL TAKE IT AS A CHALLENGE"

But with this comment.... are you serious.... they are both REAL GUNS...
I totally agree with teaching kids about firearms, both safety and respect.
 
debodun said:
This is for sale on Amazon - and these are TOYS!

https://www.amazon.com/AK-47-ASSAULT-MACHINE-MILITARY-CAR-15/dp/B01N6E3E6J
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Call me old-fashioned, but when I was growing up in the 60's, every little boy had a smoke rifle, dart guns, pistols that looked like real pistols, and all were used in play... I know, because my baby brother was one of them.

They played cowboys-and-Indians, war type scenarios, cops-and-robbers, and I seen, and still see no harm in such.

The only problem I see... gun crimes are out of control in the USofA, and that's because the States allows every Tom, Dick, and Harry to own a gun, pack a gun, and use a gun, and it set up a culture where guns are gold in everyone's eyes, and so to help offset violent crimes associated with the use of firearms, lawmakers have gone after childhood gun toys, banning this, restricting that, limiting something else, and then there's the following of thumpers that believe that toy play guns and violent video games are to blame for all of the carnage and crimes associated with firearms.

It's all so laughable to me, while at the same time, pathetic. Pathetic, in that young children (particularly little boys) don't get to enjoy the freedom of play as it used to be.

I personally see no issue with any one of those toy things in the link.
 
Nothing changed over the decades with regard to folks having weapons in the US, but something changed in our culture after the 1960s such that crimes committed with weapons became far more commonplace. Back in the 1950s and 60s (and probably prior to that), folks had weapons and crimes using weapons were not out of control. So it would seem to me that identifying what changed to cause, or at least fuel, this problem is what needs to be addressed. The cause may well be more complex than one single cliched answer. I see this as a different conversation from the one in another thread about the current crime spike and the problems police are having in the US right now because this issue with crimes involving weapons has been going on longer than the recent issues with support for the police, but not nearly as long as folks have had weapons and used them for sport.

Tony
 
Just bad safety practices all around. And guns are not the only object/activity parents screw up.

Saw a entrepeneurial landscaper start with a pick-up truck and single push mower. His business grew and a few years later he had lawn mowers, tractors and all sorts of power equipment. In the summer he started bringing his son young teen along with both doing different customers at the sametime or one would mow and other trim-all with power equipment. Long story short the kid had no ear or eye protection, no works glove boots etc. Saw him/them in the neighborhood all day.

The next year for what ever reason both he and his kid had protection. So for months on end young child was exposed to 6-8 hours of power tool noise a day. Along with debris, flying debris without the usual protections.
 

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