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08-27-2014, 10:39 PM #51
I bet Sara Palin thinks 9 yr olds handling Uzis is a great idea. After all she ca see Russia.
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08-27-2014, 10:40 PM #52
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08-27-2014, 10:43 PM #53
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08-27-2014, 10:45 PM #54
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08-27-2014, 11:05 PM #55
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08-28-2014, 12:24 AM #56
I have been witness to a range accident; friendly fire incidences also have the same feel to them. Surprise followed by shock, followed by where to place the blame. Coincidently my eye-witness experience was a direct result of full auto run-amuck. Range Master took two 5.56 rounds in the torso and one in a shoulder. He lived but, he gets to shit like a squirrel for the rest of his life.
Some ignorance can feel uniquely American. Can you fault the parents? Of course, but are they a product of their environment too? Were they influenced by in-breeding, white supremacy prejudices or maybe it was Charlton Heston?
The damage to the 9yr old is irreversible. A moment that has changed every breath she will take until the end of her days. Every sunrise and sunset she will ever see and every relationship she will ever have. The range hand could have leaned his shoulder in and saved his life. I am anxious to know if he had any live fire experience in his past. His demeanor was to cavalier. He paid the ultimate price.
If killing a living thing makes your testosterone rise (or your estrogen drop),you are broadcasting how weak of a person you were before you pulled the trigger. If you find it necessary to have the potential to execute that kind of violence in your hands, then everyone knows you couldn’t cut it at something more challenging. Watching that UZI gracefully walk to the left is intoxicating, but make no mistake about it; it is an intoxicant. YOMV
My 12yr old will fire his first powder actuated projectile this year. Where we live, bagging your first deer is a 12yr olds’ rite of passage. One of my son's personal friends, a 12yr old girl, has already taken a deer with her crossbow. I let my son make his own decision and he doesn't feel motivated enough to want that experience yet. I will be there for him if he ever feels the need. I doubt he ever will.
Respecting the potential of a firearm is important and knowing that how you manage and control the weapon determines how dangerous it really is.
Having the right to bear arms as a private citizen is a security we should not have to give up. A single round can accurately kill from 1.5miles away. Why do we need a gaggle of SWAT members with 20 rounds each, oppressing Americans in their homes and on our streets? Di-militarize all law enforcement and ban fully automatic weapons completely. If you have one, you are a felon. Not a popular view, but a means to an end just the same. America will be a safer place.
“Choice” It is a pillar of democracy and not uniquely American but, we do tend to revere the bad choice, don’t we?
Like professional skiers without helmets on; you are a special bunch. You are a role model or aspiring to be one in our sport. If you don’t feel like being a role model, well tough luck because it’s part of the job description. Don’t advertise your low IQ by skipping the brain bucket.
We have to have catastrophic failure before its hip for everyone to use them of course. We have to have a marquee name to give the potential for massive head trauma an order of magnitude before it’s cool for everyone. We have to have a McConkey or Burke take a big hit first.
Alas, a semi-automatic hand gun will still be good to have (duct taped to your body so it can’t fall out of your level 3 holster) when coming across a pack of gray wolves that block your fall line and mistake you for lunch.
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08-28-2014, 12:45 AM #57
They forgot the quotes around "shooting instructor". None of that looked anything like professional range safety. He wasn't teaching her to shoot, just giving her, or more likely her parents, a thrill.
Around here the kids like to jump off the Donner Creek Bridge at the west end of Donner Lake. Illegal but local kids have been doing it forever. Nowadays, though, it's the parents pushing a lot of the kids, some of them too young to be doing it, camera phones in action of course.
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08-28-2014, 04:38 AM #58Funky But Chic
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08-28-2014, 05:51 AM #59
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08-28-2014, 05:53 AM #60
common sense goes a long way - burgers and bullets - oh man - it's embarrassing to be an American sometimes
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08-28-2014, 06:07 AM #61
9 y.o. busts a cap
"One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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08-28-2014, 06:42 AM #62
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08-28-2014, 07:39 AM #63
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08-28-2014, 08:02 AM #64
So you can't legally drink until 21, but a 9 y o can handle an uzi? lol @ america
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08-28-2014, 08:43 AM #65"One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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08-28-2014, 09:00 AM #66
Res ipsa loquitur.
Res ipsa loquitur (Latin for "the thing itself speaks") is a doctrine that states that the elements of duty of care and breach can sometimes be inferred from the very nature of an accident or other outcome.
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08-28-2014, 09:19 AM #67
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08-28-2014, 09:36 AM #68
we are a nation of gun totin' rednecks.
remember this one - http://www.nbcnews.com/id/33220258/n.../#.U_9MA_ldVmU
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08-28-2014, 09:52 AM #69
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08-28-2014, 10:04 AM #70
So there is no mistake, fully automatic weapons are already difficult to obtain as they are already highly restricted. I think the distinction needs to be made between ownership and access, since access is the issue germane to this tragedy. And at least one other similar tragedy in fairly recent memory. It seems logical to me that the same rules should be applied to access and use as already apply to ownership of fully automatic firearms. I will go on record as saying that I am against the highly restrictive limitations on full auto, however since they are in place I believe they should apply to access and use as well. And I will also further establish my crazy credentials by stating that if law enforcement and the military were banned from owning and using full auto domestically then I would be perfectly fine with a complete civilian ban on full-auto as well.
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08-28-2014, 10:08 AM #71
Bets on how long before the parents sue the range for intentional infliction of emotional distress on themselves and their child?
In order to properly convert this thread to a polyasshat thread to more fully enrage the liberal left frequenting here...... (insert latest democratic blunder of your choice).
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08-28-2014, 10:12 AM #72
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08-28-2014, 10:13 AM #73
I find it sad that the massacre of a first grade classroom has faded into clouded memory just a short time afterwards.
Edit: how nice, I have an ad off to the right for some sort of service to inform me of my rights to carry a concealed gun. Thanks, Google, for that little slice of evil.
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08-28-2014, 10:17 AM #74
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08-28-2014, 10:19 AM #75
At least the fat fuck won't breed anymore.
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