Yet, the pro-gun voices keep down-playing the role of the family in the misbehaviour of the kids. I wonder why that is.Kids mostly always do and like what their parents and other adults do and like.
Do adults love guns? Kids will love guns.
We want our guns anywhere and everywhere, even if the price for that privilege is paid by kids. Our children, raised in this gun culture and too young to understand it, every day are going to jail.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
I was taught to shoot and properly handle firearms well before I understood what "gun culture" even meant, yet I have never been to jail. Parents that enjoy firearms don't send their children to jail, it's parents that don't teach their children to make responsible choices. Firearms are a great tool for teaching responsibility.
ReplyDeletemy family is well behaved around guns. What is this gun culture you speak of?
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah! Felons, Rappers, and Movie Stars. Who usually are all three. All the people eligible for a NYC Carry Permit under the Sullivan Act.
Maybe you shouldn't try to decide how I should live my life. And if you don't try to informally tax me on a city street, or in my home, you may go about your business. I know you feel that assorted scum have more of a right to what I have earned than I do. I have a right under the Constitution to disagree with that.
For 40 years my simplest yardstick has been....
...What are you planning to do to me and mine that you don't want me to have a gun available when you're doing it?
John B said...
ReplyDelete...What are you planning to do to me and mine that you don't want me to have a gun available when you're doing it?
Exactly the gun-control fanatics are also the front edges of the statists, they don't want you to have a gun so they can do things like this.....
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5974253.ece
Well, you three sound like good solid examples of gun culture at its best.
ReplyDeleteYou teach your kids that everyone is a potential threat and that they need to be prepared to meet possible lethal threat with real lethal threat. That sounds like a good way to raise kids.
Also you drill into their heads that gun control folks, in spite of what they say and appear to really stand for, want to take all the guns away.
Then when one of your teenagers does something stupid, you let him hang out to dry. I say you're to blame.
My Father had a couple of guns in the house growing up. They weren't locked up, just sitting in the closet. We knew where they were but never were allowed to handle them unless an adult was present(and we never did).
ReplyDelete"You teach your kids that everyone is a potential threat and that they need to be prepared to meet possible lethal threat with real lethal threat. That sounds like a good way to raise kids."
Stereotyping doesn't do you a service. It just makes you sound ignorant. Teaching your kids to be aware of the people around them, to not talk to strangers, to not get in a stranger's car, etc is normal parenting regardless of the gun issue. Teaching your kids to be responsible for themselves and self reliant in their own safety is also normal with responsible parenting. A gun is one tool but obviously their are others a parent can use to educate their kids if they are attacked, or potentially mugged, etc
Do you teach your kids anything about the realities of life? Anything about being aware of their surroundings or do your kids text while driving/walking, park in dark areas of the mall, and generally life live clueless? If so, that sounds like poor parenting to me.
Also you drill into their heads that gun control folks, in spite of what they say and appear to really stand for, want to take all the guns away.
You yourself have pointed out that the methods you approve of will make it harder for normal, honest, responsible people to own/use firearms. This misguided philosophy runs counter to common sense gun rights. Guns rights = civil rights and quite frankly you're on the wrong side of it.