Lifted off my Facebook. Nothing bad with taking the kids “shootin’ 'an all”, but a six year old girl! :roflmao:
btw, The lady OP in question is from Austin, Texas. In case y’all were wonderin’ 'an stuff… 
Edit: PS Mods, if this doesn’t feel right here, feel free to boot it to Fun and Games.
Before I read that, I was thinking, “wow, this person has to be from either Texas or West Virginia. Or maybe South Carolina. Or Georgia. Or Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri…fuck it, they’re just American.”
WTF is the problem?
Teaching children safe ‘gun’ handling and respect for ‘guns’ at an early age is a good thing.
Parental involvement with this is just icing on the cake.
Oh…and waegookin…Fuckin’ A they are AMERICANS. Whats is your problem with that?
What would Jesus do? “Blessed are the children who know how to double tap, for theirs is the kingdom of… what, exactly?”
[quote=“TainanCowboy”]WTF is the problem?
Teaching children safe ‘gun’ handling and respect for ‘guns’ at an early age is a good thing.
Parental involvement with this is just icing on the cake.
Oh…and waegookin…Fuckin’ A they are Americans. Whats is your problem with that?[/quote]
Sure, teaching children safe gun control. Sounds good. But a six year old!!!??
[quote=“TainanCowboy”]
Oh…and waegookin…Fuckin’ A they are Americans. Whats is your problem with that?[/quote]
Ain’t nuttin’ rong wit dat, ya’ll. I like me some Judge Judy while I drank my PBR and send dem kids off to church to learn howta aim a gun. What wud Jeezis do? Jeezis be shootin’ up all dem homosexurals!
(I’m an American. Let’s just say there’s a reason (or twenty) that I left and don’t plan to ever go back.)
I just want to say, I didn’t start this as an “American Bashing Thread”. I have nothing against Americans and I have many awesome friends who are Americans, some are even Southerners from States where folks like to whip out the guns and shoot stuff.
I’m just poking fun at the stereotype, especially seeing as the lady above’s kid is a mere six years old. I mean, we also went shooting as kids on the farm, but generally there was an age limit on these things and I don’t remember us handling firearms at six!
Next, bring that 6-year-old to the local bar to teach her about responsible drinking! Then put her behind the wheel of a car to teach her about responsible driving!
Some things are for adults, not kids. Shooting, drinking and driving. Preferably not at the same time.
yea, don’t mess with kids in the US these days. they might be packing.
PLEASE DON’T SHOOT
Devil’s advocate for a moment:
The FB update doesn’t specifically mention the child firing a weapon, only that she went to the range. It’s possible the kid’s mommy and daddy were shooting at the range while she, herself, was eating a hotdog and watching.
Just coincidently from google news today:
[quote]The father of a 4-year-old boy who accidentally shot his mom on Monday “is kicking himself” for giving the boy live ammunition, police said Tuesday.
The boy slipped a shell into a shotgun that was on a bed in his parents’ room Monday afternoon and then pulled the trigger, according to Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Scott Wilson. The 23-year-old woman suffered pellet wounds, but was treated and released from Tacoma General Hospital on Monday night, police said.[/quote]
Father ‘kicking himself’ after son, 4, shoots mother: seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l … ot27m.html
Guns and kids are a GREAT combination? Y’all have got to be high! These two parents are likely to be charged with neglect and reckless endangerment, as they should be, because it’s insane to leave live ammunition where kids can get to it, never mind leaving a semi-automatic shotgun laying on the bed with your 2- and 4-year old kids in the room.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/25508832/detail.html
[quote]A 4-year-old Washington state boy playing with a semiautomatic shotgun accidentally shot and wounded his mother on Monday.
Investigators believe the preschooler loaded a cartridge into a 12-gauge semiautomatic shotgun and fired while his mother’s back was turned, the Kitsap Sun reported. She was hit with birdshot in her left side.
The incident occurred in a bedroom while the woman was on the phone, according to the newspaper. The woman told investigators she didn’t hear the boy load the cartridge or that he had gained access to the gun.
The boy’s father, who is also the woman’s boyfriend, had given the boy the cartridge earlier in the day so he could handle it. The boy had expressed curiosity about firearms, according to an investigator’s report.
The boy’s father was not at home at the time of the shooting.[/quote]
I would add a reply but it would likely be interpreted as being Anti american or american bashing…
I love my country, but on many levels, the longer I’m away the less it makes sense to me…
Isn’t there a bit of a difference between the two stories? When we were kids (my sister would have been six or seven the first year), the cousins, sister, and I were allowed to shoot tin cans out on the farm we spent Christmases at. Our uncle was right by us all the time, and the guns were all locked away as they should be after we finished, ammunition separate. We were educated about guns and how they are weapons with a power to kill, to be respected. There was no way we would have been able to access any of the guns ourselves. We also went small-bore shooting, which I loved as a young kid and would probably still love now if I could find somewhere to do it. We were closely supervised and educated by the staff at the range. The mum in the first post is probably a little cheeky on facebook, the parents in the second story neglected to consider any safety issues at all.
We did the same thing on the farm, but we had to start out with pellet guns. You only graduated to a .22 if you had proven you could shoot a small bird in the head on a windy day from 50m or so. All completely supervised as you describe. Which is why when I got to the navy and we had out first day at the range I had a perfect score with my first magazine, and the Army Sargeant Major who supervised us got into a huge argument with my Chief because he wanted me transferred to the Pongoes. The Chief told him to go F*** himself. Something about Pongoes being smelly bastards with no brains. They nearly came to blows. Good times. 
There’s a big difference between shooting a .22 at some tin cans or using a semi-auto on some bunny rabbits and the stuff that goes on on US firing ranges. Remember this one?
[quote]An 8-Year-Old Unintentionally Killed Himself With A Fully Automatic Uzi At the Westfield Machine Gun Shoot — His Father, Present At the Shooting, Heads Emergency Medicine At Conn. Hospital[/quote] gunguys.com/?p=3230
The kid was well supervised. Eight year olds don’t have the physical or cognitive maturity to handle automatic weapons. Too fidgety and easily distracted. Not to mention, plain dumb.
At least the four year old only had bird shot.
Yeah responsible gun handling 
now if you’re on a farm and shoot rabbits for dinner, I’d understand, but a city dweller going to a gun range for target practice? it is recreational. I don’t know why a child has to be taught that a gun is a ‘fun’ thing!! But then I don’t like toy guns either :loco:
I know the kids of yore played with bows and arrows, but then they grew up to use them, wonder if we want our kids to grow up using guns.
[quote=“divea”]Yeah responsible gun handling now if you’re on a farm and shoot rabbits for dinner, I’d understand, but a city dweller going to a gun range for target practice? it is recreational. I don’t know why a child has to be taught that a gun is a ‘fun’ thing!! But then I don’t like toy guns either :loco:
I know the kids of yore played with bows and arrows, but then they grew up to use them, wonder if we want our kids to grow up using guns.[/quote]
What’s there to scoff at about responsible gun handling? The point of teaching your children to respect firearms is that they aren’t toys and are very dangerous when handled incorrectly. When you fail to do that you get a sad situation like the story DiaFun provided.
You’re competing against every shoot’em up movie, every violent video game, every toy out there. Your kids grow up seeing guns on TV and in movies, playing with toy guns (or mimicking one with something as simple as a paper towel roll) or shooting guns in a video game. It’s better to teach them the proper rules for gun handling, which includes never touching one unless supervised by an adult, than to have modern culture teach them.
That also requires that adults act in a responsible manner and take the necessary steps to prevent curious children from getting access to the guns by securing them with trigger locks, not leaving them where children can gain access and keeping the ammunition separate from the firearm.