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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]Squinch
(50,773 posts)59. But if we require that they actually show some responsibility we are violating their
rights! Rights that come from the Magna Carta! Or something!
Anyhow, they will feel WRONGED because they have TOLD us that they are responsible gun owners, and we aren't taking their word for it!
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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