Ernie S.
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- Nov 14, 2010
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Look! Kids are going to be exposed to guns sooner or later. Why not supervise them when they first come in contact? Did you give your kid a bicycle and just turn him loose?I'm a staunch 2nd Amendment supporter, but i also realize we do have problems. I mean, i just read about the kid who shot up his school recently. He left a note stating he wanted to be buried in his camo. His father used to dress him up in camo and taught him to enjoy killing and maiming. He was later arrested for illegally acquiring the firearm his son used in the massacre.
It's a culture problem. The kid was raised on violence. His father was a typical gun-obsessed asshole. He taught his child violence. We have to change our culture. We have to become less violent. We have to stop teaching children violence. Maybe stop handing children guns and teaching them how to kill and maim. I know that upsets hunters especially, but it is time to reconsider handing their children guns. We live in a very different time.
What's different? Men have taught their children how to hunt and obtain food for centuries; now it's a problem?
It's the same mentality that gets liberals to cry about violence on television. We've always had violence on television. Watch an episode or two of the Three Stooges or Gunsmoke sometime. Why was it not a problem when I was a chid?
The issue....single teenage mothers raising children....who have children who have children with no adult men or women modeling mature adult behavior.....do that generation after generation and you have what you have now in the democrat inner cities......
That is the gun culture that is the problem...everywhere else in this country guns are not a problem.
And that is why children in the past could watch the 3 stooges and play Army and then..not go to their school and shoot their classmates, or drive down their block at 15 and shoot other kids from different gangs......
We do have a culture problem. We should stop handing children guns and promoting violence. When they become adults, they can decide whether or not they want to acquire a firearm.
Kids in the hood are not handed guns from their parents. If they have guns, they get them from their friends. The streets are loaded with hot weapons.
The real problem is that these kids that get the guns have no idea what they have in their hands. About five years ago, some 11 year old girl was shot to death by a 13 year old boy a few houses down from me. He got his hands on a gun and had no idea if the weapon was loaded or not. In fun, he pulled the trigger while aiming the gun at her.
Drive by shootings are common in cities like mine. Because the shooter has very limited (if any) experience with a gun, they don't realize that where you aim is not always where the bullet goes, and they end up killing innocent people on the sidewalk or even in their homes. They have no idea what downrange is or means.
Let's not hand children firearms period. Let's start there.