RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
October 18, 2014 at 9:29 am
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2014 at 9:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Like I said, teenager of some stripe, he tears ass down our lane in a pickup, I assume he's old enough to drive it (but that might be an unjustified assumption here....lol). It's a "sporting rifle", so yeah, I'd call it a toy. It's definitely not a tool (as I would describe some of my rifles). Some of my rifles are "toys" as well. Nothing wrong with that, so long as he can "play" with his "toy" without sending rounds over my head. That's all I take issue with.
For reference, my daughter is 6 and already displays more competence and forethought with her bb gun than his teenage son does with a semi auto .22 - so I don't think I'm being unreasonable in requesting that he think about where his bullets go when they leave the barrel - that he, and by extension his father, follow the laws on the books regarding what one may and may not do with a rifle - even on their own property. It's not an issue of rights, in this instance, to my mind, it's an issue of responsibility. The fact that the father went off the chain about rights and his kids future while being seemingly oblivious to(or unwilling to address) the fact that his son was firing into someone else's property - which is pretty much chock full of small children (my neighbors kids are here all the time too, they live on a little postage stamp wedged between me and my neighbor so my yard is their yard)..... explains all I need to know in trying to figure out why his kid's a negligent dick. Like father like son.
To bring this round to the crux of the thread. Is it okay to take this kids gun away, or take his fathers gun away as being responsible for what his minor child does with his guns - by force if necessary? I'd say so - and I'd say that the law allows for this and that it is -not- an infringement of any right. I haven't had any trouble since the second time I had a talk with my neighbor, but if I do I'm just going to call the cops again, and I fully expect to see action taken - I won't drop it until I do, if I have to go through the trouble of involving a sheriff just to keep someone else's bullets off my lawn, lol. I'm not going to take it into my own hands because it isn't my job to do so, nor am I vested with the authority to do so (nor would I want to....imagine shooting someone for a moment, even someone that was trying to hurt you..I think that alot of people who imagine even a "home invader" scenario fail to fully comprehend how awful the experience of shooting someone could be), nor are "good guys with guns". That's just not how it works here. I've been to places where it does work like that, I doubt that many would want our country to emulate those places - because I didn't see a whole hell of alot of my countrymen there, people weren't exactly tripping over themselves to get in-country. Why some people want to turn this place into a shithole they would and already do avoid is beyond me. My grandfather had this to say about "gun nuts" of Mins description. "They're going to ruin it for you and me boy". That's pretty much what I see in the whole gun debate currently.
For reference, my daughter is 6 and already displays more competence and forethought with her bb gun than his teenage son does with a semi auto .22 - so I don't think I'm being unreasonable in requesting that he think about where his bullets go when they leave the barrel - that he, and by extension his father, follow the laws on the books regarding what one may and may not do with a rifle - even on their own property. It's not an issue of rights, in this instance, to my mind, it's an issue of responsibility. The fact that the father went off the chain about rights and his kids future while being seemingly oblivious to(or unwilling to address) the fact that his son was firing into someone else's property - which is pretty much chock full of small children (my neighbors kids are here all the time too, they live on a little postage stamp wedged between me and my neighbor so my yard is their yard)..... explains all I need to know in trying to figure out why his kid's a negligent dick. Like father like son.
To bring this round to the crux of the thread. Is it okay to take this kids gun away, or take his fathers gun away as being responsible for what his minor child does with his guns - by force if necessary? I'd say so - and I'd say that the law allows for this and that it is -not- an infringement of any right. I haven't had any trouble since the second time I had a talk with my neighbor, but if I do I'm just going to call the cops again, and I fully expect to see action taken - I won't drop it until I do, if I have to go through the trouble of involving a sheriff just to keep someone else's bullets off my lawn, lol. I'm not going to take it into my own hands because it isn't my job to do so, nor am I vested with the authority to do so (nor would I want to....imagine shooting someone for a moment, even someone that was trying to hurt you..I think that alot of people who imagine even a "home invader" scenario fail to fully comprehend how awful the experience of shooting someone could be), nor are "good guys with guns". That's just not how it works here. I've been to places where it does work like that, I doubt that many would want our country to emulate those places - because I didn't see a whole hell of alot of my countrymen there, people weren't exactly tripping over themselves to get in-country. Why some people want to turn this place into a shithole they would and already do avoid is beyond me. My grandfather had this to say about "gun nuts" of Mins description. "They're going to ruin it for you and me boy". That's pretty much what I see in the whole gun debate currently.
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