Kids and Guns

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Hypothetical here. What would you be more upset with? Your child getting in trouble for bringing a loaded handgun to high school? Or your child getting in trouble being caught with some marijuana at school?
 
Hard question. I'm already teaching my 4 year old basic firearm safety and I believe that firearms have value, I do not like marijuana nor do I ever want my child caught with it at school... However, all that said, even if he was bringing the gun just to show him friends and he cleared it before letting them see it... He would be expelled and probably end up in jail. Pot, he might get detention...

So I guess marijuana, but I'm not happy about it.
 
Ethics aside, kids have the consequences drilled into their heads. If they want to show their friends a gun, they can invite them home. If there's any other reason to take one, it needs outside intervention.
 
Ethics aside, kids have the consequences drilled into their heads. If they want to show their friends a gun, they can invite them home. If there's any other reason to take one, it needs outside intervention.
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I was just answering the question within the stated parameters, and trying to point out the asinine broad stroke zero tolerance ideas that make a legally owned rifle in the truck of a car in the parking lot a arrestable, expellable offense yet possessing illegal drugs without any intent to distribute is unlikely to even warrant a call to law enforcement.
 
Bringing Marijuanna to school sounds worse to me. However, I would suspect that a kid bringing a handgun to school would be dealt with much more harshly than any drugs. Getting in trouble for bringing loaded guns to school would probably follow him for a very long time making life down the road difficult. As a society, drugs are more easily forgiven.
 
A loaded handgun without a doubt. That is utterly inexcusable. Marijuana is a result of other problems that could be dealt with, but a handgun, especially loaded, is a definite no-no. Now if you said crack or heroin for example, well then that would be different too.
 
I don't even understand how you can seriously ask this question. Of course I would be more upset about them bringing a loaded handgun, or for that matter an unloaded handgun.

I'm not anti-gun person by any extent, but you know... There's this problem amongst marijuana proponets. They tend to be so vehement in defending the drug because it is relatively harmless, that they forget the "relatively" and just assume it is totally, 100% harmless and that is a fallacy.

Now, I can see how a person would assume that a child with a loaded handgun is not in itself dangerous. There's a lot of youth shooters out there that have been taught well. So the gun and the child having it are not inherently dangerous. I think the more people start to think, "Guns aren't dangerous if you're safe about them," the more they're deluding themselves that guns are harmless just like the marijuana proponets. So if at any point anyone suggested to me that it would be okay to let a child go to school with a loaded gun, I would know they are just as permafried as the idiots who think pot is a 100% innocuous cure all.

Just to really beat it out here.... Let's assume your child is trained to safely handle a loaded firearm, knows all the safety rules, blah blah Now, if you think that makes it safe for them to bring a firearm to school, let's look at it this way...

- What about the other kids? Will they safely handle it or pull the trigger and blow someone away?
- What about teachers who see a child with a handgun? I mean, what age are we talking here? Who is to say that in this day in age with school shootings in our past, that a teacher wouldn't see him as a threat and take some kind of action?

I mean, you can make a reasonable argument to say that firearms are safe if you handle them correctly... Well, stashed inside of a bag, at a place that clearly prohibits firearms, is not handling it safely.

I really don't even see how these two things relate to each other. What's the point of this question?
 
Both scenarios represent equally egregious lapses in judgment. In my state, the handgun would get us BOTH charged so I would be more angry about that than about pot.
 
I would be more upset with the gun, when I was in highschool I new by that age what is correct handling with a firearm, taking one to school isn't! As far as the weed goes, it's bad but it's a common thing, still a lack of judgement but not as big of one, at least in my own opinion.
 
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