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In reply to the discussion: Sebastian Swartz, 9-Year-Old Boy, Dead After Shooting Himself With Father's Gun In Ohio [View all]a la izquierda
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Kids can't even grasp basic English grammar.
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Sebastian Swartz, 9-Year-Old Boy, Dead After Shooting Himself With Father's Gun In Ohio [View all]
Judi Lynn
Feb 2013
OP
The dad may not have been adequately trained in gun safety. The basics should be taught in school.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#1
Bullshit. You should have to demonstrate proficiency BEFORE you can purchase a gun. Period.
JoePhilly
Feb 2013
#9
It does prevent reckless driving, it does not stop it but it does prevent it
Bjorn Against
Feb 2013
#23
You're not going to get your way on that. We don't have to prove proficiency before we can vote,
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#18
Generaly speaking, you usually do not get knocked in the head or shot through the heart
juajen
Feb 2013
#37
You're allowed to vote for National Socialist parties, join the KKK, publish racist propaganda, etc.
harmonicon
Feb 2013
#72
Yes, we are: owning a gun and casting a vote are in no way comparable, for one thing;
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#97
But if we require that they actually show some responsibility we are violating their
Squinch
Feb 2013
#59
There are a lot of wishful but impotent "should" statements in that short paragraph.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#25
The boy shot himself because his father failed to adequately secure his weapon.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#29
Teaching kids how to be safe is not teaching them any kind of negative culture.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#33
I'm with you on driver's ed. There are so many bad drivers on the road now.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#39
If I had kids I would teach them to be safe by teaching them to stay away from guns
Bjorn Against
Feb 2013
#40
No they would not be under my control, but they would be educated about guns
Bjorn Against
Feb 2013
#45
Guns have a multitude of applications, and can be used safely with proper training.
slackmaster
Mar 2013
#83
Would you allow your children to ride bicycles in the street, or drive cars?
slackmaster
Mar 2013
#93
My reference to transportation was in regard to your claim that you would try to prevent your child
slackmaster
Mar 2013
#101
I'm not trying to equate weapons with vehicles. I'm talking about probabilities.
slackmaster
Mar 2013
#103
More wishful thinking "should" statements. You don't have to get psych tested or take a course...
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#36
If you want to have a gun, do this on your own time and with your own dime. It's your hobby,
Squinch
Feb 2013
#53
I would joke that something like that happened in Fla, but it's too sad what happened to that guy.
Squinch
Mar 2013
#100
Gosh. We're shocked, shocked I tell you, that you feel the need to say this and thereby
Squinch
Feb 2013
#51
I never said it was the responsibility of anyone but the gun owner. I'm suggesting...
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#52
Like drugs, sex, and cars, improperly handled firearms pose an extraordinary hazard to people
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#69
Teaching is like giving a young person a tool. The tool gets put into the toolbox, and may never...
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#71
every person who buys or already owns a gun should be required to be licensed
magical thyme
Feb 2013
#78
The rights to drive, hunt, fish, clam, dig worms, and take lobstahs aren't enumerated in the Bill...
slackmaster
Mar 2013
#79
No, federal law prohibits sale of a long gun to anyone under 18. For handguns, 21.
slackmaster
Mar 2013
#82
Unfortunately, lots of so-called responsible gun owners are just a tragedy waiting to happen.
Hoyt
Mar 2013
#104
And clearly life in prison is no deterent either. Let's drop all laws about murder.
JoePhilly
Feb 2013
#10
Try following the discussion...the poster claimed that death penalties would prevent
JoeBlowToo
Feb 2013
#13
If you own a gun, and some one else is killed accidentaly because of your neglegence ...
JoePhilly
Feb 2013
#15
Maybe we should give people prizes when they commit murder. Because of that incarceration
Squinch
Feb 2013
#57
Not the death penalty, but yes, a jail penalty for the death that occurred as a result of his
Squinch
Feb 2013
#56
Lock up your guns people. My kids are 7 and 8. If I had a gun it would be totally locked away
Jennicut
Feb 2013
#68
I store my shotgun seperately from the shells for it, the former in a locked safe. I cannot imagine
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#91
Tragic. The cost of unregulated gun fetishism in this country claims another life. Some jerk can't
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#90