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nadinbrzezinski

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23. If you have guns at home and children, old enough, like

Reply to malaise (Reply #18)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:28 PM

Dec 2012

Eight or above, it's a good idea to take them to the range and teach them gun safety and what to do around them...Adam was a broken young man, but I will not fault mom for familiarizing them with guns.

That in fact, is a recommendation from even my local PD, to have gun locks, but teach gun familiarization and safety to mature children. It takes, most of the time, the aura of mystery away and prevents accidents. Tom was a cop, if we had kids, of eight to ten, we'd be going to the range regularly and they would become very familiar with those guns.

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Mom had a 50 caliber Henry? (per CNN) [View all] Whovian Dec 2012 OP

They have been saying sandyshoes17 Dec 2012 #1

That's an antique collector gun. JohnnyRingo Dec 2012 #2

Yeah, the caliber stops meaning quite as much once you're out of the twentieth century Posteritatis Dec 2012 #9

That's a very expensive rifle that would be bought by a serious collector or target shooter slackmaster Dec 2012 #3

Wondering if it was a reproduction ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #11

She was receiving $250,000 a year in alimony alcibiades_mystery Dec 2012 #15

A Henry is an Old West era lever-action rifle. Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #4

I have a Martini-Henry slackmaster Dec 2012 #5

Meh, looks just like an AK-47 to me! Posteritatis Dec 2012 #6

Here's a handy chart for ID'ing guns: Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #8

The car always cracks me up. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2012 #10

Ha! First laugh I've had in a couple of days! Thanks! nt. OldDem2012 Dec 2012 #16

Hahahaha JohnnyRingo Dec 2012 #24

Or a collector nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #7

She needed it to compensate for the size of her penis. Being a teacher, she knew that. Edweird Dec 2012 #12

She wasn't a teacher. Squinch Dec 2012 #27

Henry rifles were made in New Haven, CT. FarCenter Dec 2012 #13

You just can't handle the fact that a female teacher owned and enjoyed shooting guns Edweird Dec 2012 #14

Yikes!!!!!!!!!! former-republican Dec 2012 #17

Not that likely with a mid-nineteenth-century rifle. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2012 #19

Stop using logic former-republican Dec 2012 #20

D'oh. Sorry. Posteritatis Dec 2012 #22

There were no helicopters in the civil war nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #21

a riffle is a rocky shoal or sandbar lying just below the surface of a waterway. are you talking dionysus Dec 2012 #30

oh my DevonRex Dec 2012 #31

the rebels used to lure the union soldiers down to the killing riffles. while their horses dionysus Dec 2012 #32

I control the universe DevonRex Dec 2012 #34

Apparently the mom also took her kids to the range malaise Dec 2012 #18

If you have guns at home and children, old enough, like nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #23

Collected guns and taught her sons how to kill... you really do reap what you sow. nt Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #25

Sad but true.n/t godai Dec 2012 #26

I'm pretty sure the original Henry rifles were not produced in .50 caliber tularetom Dec 2012 #28

What if he killed her to get to her weapons? malaise Dec 2012 #29

it would seem that way, since he first tried to purchase one. bettyellen Dec 2012 #33