OT: why do some american parents buy their minors guns?

[NotCranky]

There seems to be a preponderance of will to have kids get accustomed to guns and I do not mean hunting guns. My kids are taught that guns are no joke,every time it comes up, and especially on the occasion when someone gives them a toy one. They come as plane launchers, bubble making machines, and propellants of any kind of goofy little toy and of course as guns.The kids use them for toy launchers about 15 seconds and start play killing each other because they have seen their friends do it. Any toy like that goes in the trash and they get to keep the non gun component.”Sorry I guess grammy forgot we don’t make a joke out of guns”.The next time we are in the store they will want the gun sans bubbles or whatever.I tell the kids that they can have them when they grow up.
It pisses me off that people make and sell this crap to innocents, strategically placed orange pieces or not. I feel bad for kids with fundamentally unenlightened parents who cooperate with this kind of crap. “Here take your plastic gun outside an pretend to blow your brother to pieces…you will more readily accept your training to kill people in the “axis of evil” when you grow up.” Might as well buy them the whole U.S. Marine “grunt” kit and a couple of toy “ragheads” to blow up.Maybe one or two should come with every gas guzzling SUV.

[Coronita]

Let me be clear. When I posted, I don't have issues with guns with themselves. I don't even really have a problem with parents teaching their son/daughter how to properly use one for hunting or even for target practice at a range.

What I was talking about was just general gun safety. I mean, if you buy a gun or buy one so your kid can use it supervised (and key word here is supervised), well, shouldn't you keep it under lock-and-key in a cabinet or something? What I don't understand are the freaky parents that just let their kids access the gun so easily, like keeping it in a their own room. And what parent can justify buying their kid an assault rifle? Far stretch between a hunting gun or even a pistol versus an assault rifle. Unrelated, what the heck about the hand grenades too? Unfrickin believable. WTF are these parents thinking? A son/daughter "needs" an assault rifle? Just my opinion, but this particular mom in this particular case deserves to go to jail.

[Coronita]

Let me be clear. When I posted, I don't have issues with guns with themselves. I don't even really have a problem with parents teaching their son/daughter how to properly use one for hunting or even for target practice at a range.

What I was talking about was just general gun safety. I mean, if you buy a gun or buy one so your kid can use it supervised (and key word here is supervised), well, shouldn't you keep it under lock-and-key in a cabinet or something? What I don't understand are the freaky parents that just let their kids access the gun so easily, like keeping it in a their own room. And what parent can justify buying their kid an assault rifle? Far stretch between a hunting gun or even a pistol versus an assault rifle. Unrelated, what the heck about the hand grenades too? Unfrickin believable. WTF are these parents thinking? A son/daughter "needs" an assault rifle? Just my opinion, but this particular mom in this particular case deserves to go to jail.

[NotCranky]

Nothing is going to stop some deviant parents from doing really stupid things. Parents give their kids drugs and alcohol, encourage them to quit school, prostitute them. The only solution is to be against guns or do something to completely eliminate deviant or stupid people before they procreate. Which is more realistic?

[NotCranky]

Nothing is going to stop some deviant parents from doing really stupid things. Parents give their kids drugs and alcohol, encourage them to quit school, prostitute them. The only solution is to be against guns or do something to completely eliminate deviant or stupid people before they procreate. Which is more realistic?

[Coronita]

Prosecuting parents for neglience would be a start.

[Coronita]

Prosecuting parents for neglience would be a start.

[no_such_reality]

Prosecuting parents for neglience would be a start.

I’ll second that. We prosecute people for murder when they street race. It’s time for parents to start remembering that THEY are responsible for the actions of their children until the children are adults.

That said, I’m still quite chagrined at the amount of violence in a movie that is PG-13 while a bare breast garners an R rating.

[no_such_reality]

Prosecuting parents for neglience would be a start.

I’ll second that. We prosecute people for murder when they street race. It’s time for parents to start remembering that THEY are responsible for the actions of their children until the children are adults.

That said, I’m still quite chagrined at the amount of violence in a movie that is PG-13 while a bare breast garners an R rating.

[NotCranky]

I am with you there. Of course she should go to jail.

[NotCranky]

I am with you there. Of course she should go to jail.

[bsrsharma]

completely eliminate deviant or stupid people before they procreate

Wow! Not OK; I can settle for sterilization though!

[bsrsharma]

completely eliminate deviant or stupid people before they procreate

Wow! Not OK; I can settle for sterilization though!

[NotCranky]

Thanks BSR much better use of words…still not realistic. I would have rather said the woman is ill than “deviant and stupid”. She has to be sick in the head.

[NotCranky]

Thanks BSR much better use of words…still not realistic. I would have rather said the woman is ill than “deviant and stupid”. She has to be sick in the head.

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