A victim's father cries - and acts

[Quartus]

quote:Grief is pushing a Willingboro father

Maybe it's guilt, not grief

Bingo.

 

[Edward429451]

Life is harsh, and plays for keeps.

Teach your children well..

There's no safety in ignorance.

 

[Crimper-D]

Stupidity is the only Capitol Crime in Nature

It appears to an inherited trait.... Briefly! :banghead:

 

[Hypnogator]

We should reference this thread every time some 19-yr old rants about why (s)he can't get a CCW license. Or buy a drink. Eighteen yr olds may have the intellectual maturity to vote intelligently, but by and large, teenagers don't have the emotional maturity to responsibly drink or carry concealed weapons. True, I know some 17-yr olds that I'd never worry about carrying a loaded handgun, and I know some 30-yr olds that I wouldn't trust to do either, but you've got to draw the line someplace. For years and years, 21 was the magic age of adulthood. It's as good a number as any, and better than most.

{Stepping down off of soapbox.}

 

[Balog]

Eighteen yr olds may have the intellectual maturity to vote intelligently, but by and large, teenagers don't have the emotional maturity to responsibly drink or carry concealed weapons.

So how do you feel about enlisting, owning long guns, and getting married? I'm twenty, I'm enlisted in the USMC, married, and I have a twelve gauge to defend myself and my wife. All legally. I can't be trusted to carry a concealed handgun, but I could own a .50 BMG or an M1A without a problem? What about driving? In many ways more difficult to do safely than shooting.

And why do we need artificial, randomly chosen age limits? The drinking age in Ireland is 16 IIRC. I'm always amazed when someone who complains that the government would prohibit them from carrying because they might do something bad turns around and says that we should ban people of a certain age from carrying because they might use it irresponsibly. Why don't we prohibit and punish behaviour?

You say people under a certain random age are more likely to be irresponsible, and thus should be prohibited from exercising the fundamental right of self-defence. Statistically speaking, black men who live in inner-city areas are more likely to use guns criminally. Shall we prohibit them from owning guns?

The only result of artificial age limits is telling young people that they aren't responsible for their own action until they reach a certain age. Oddly enough, they sometimes believe this.

 

[BluesBear]

Every, and I mean EVERY, (and I rarely use absolutes) adult should read Massad Ayoob's book "How To Gunproof Your Children".

Think what you will about Mas, THIS book should be read by EVERY adult. As it turns out what this books teaches is almost exactly what my father taught me.

As I recall the retail price of the book is a whopping $2.95.

Did I mention EVERY adult should read it?

I do realize that if this happened there would be a lot more children in the world. But that's OK, the truely stupid ones will always find another way to clorinate the shallow end of the gene pool.