Kids are drawn to guns

[The Rabbi]

One of my comrades in arms lost a child due to the fact he left a loaded shotgun in the house, without any child safeties on it.

His young son found it and began playing with it and ended up blowing his daughter to pieces.

Saddest. Funeral. Ever.

There is nothing wrong with someone pointing out that you need to fucking lock up your guns if you have kids, dipshit. It doesn't mean one is against guns.

What kind of idiot is opposed to gun safety education for parents?

Your friend was a dumbass.
First, unless the gun is for HD, don't leave it loaded.
Second, what was the child doing playing with a gun? When kids are little you keep the gun out of their reach. As they get older with more understanding you explain what it is, how it works, and if they ever touch it without you around they will get beaten within an inch of their lives.
Finally you take them out and depending, let them shoot the gun with close supervision. This usually cures any desire to play with them. Especially teh shotguns.

I've had customers who were ignorant rednecks that could barely read and yet they all learned gun safety from their parents and taught it to their kids. The problems come from parents who try to "protect" kids from guns.

 

[The T]

66 kids a day go to hospital because of shopping carts. We better outlaw shopping carts and require licensing before using.

Dumb post is dumb...nobody says outlaw, but educating about guns is one of the best safety practices you can do. Put your partisan pants away for a minute

However YOU forget the INTENT of Government to RID the Second, and it's original intent. NOTHING wrong with education as you stated and KUDOS for that...

 

[Plasmaball]

66 kids a day go to hospital because of shopping carts. We better outlaw shopping carts and require licensing before using.

Dumb post is dumb...nobody says outlaw, but educating about guns is one of the best safety practices you can do. Put your partisan pants away for a minute

However YOU forget the INTENT of Government to RID the Second, and it's original intent. NOTHING wrong with education as you stated and KUDOS for that...

Yeah sure...anyways I'm solely talking about educating here.

 

[The T]

...That is according to ABC News. On January 27, Diane Sawyer aired a video featuring David Muir, touting "groundbreaking evidence" based on a study by Yale University titled "American Children and Guns" which itself claims that every hour a child is hospitalized for gunshot wounds. The problem? This experiment was rigged.

In this hidden camera experiment conducted in a 1st Grade classroom, the kids were made to watch gun education videos by the NRA mascot Eddie Eagle, and listen to a presentation by a local police officer on how to "avoid guns." Then, they placed two unloaded handguns on the table in the classroom. They explained to the children that "they were there for a memory test" and that "there was candy there on the table." Along with the candy were numerous toys and crayons as well. Then the teacher was asked to step outside. Ten minutes later two children can be seen migrating to the table with the candy on it, picking up one of the unloaded guns and inspecting it from various positions.

The camera then panned back to Sawyer and Muir in the studio. Muir suggested parents ask their neighbors if they have "a gun in the home" and "whether it's locked, loaded, or put away."

Now why would ABC be compelled to do something so lowdown and dirty? To push a gun control agenda. This is how you unveil the lie of statistics, by understanding the methods of their determinations, my friends. The left will stop at nothing to make guns out to be evil, all the meanwhile during this experiment sitting there, unloaded, harmless on a table, nary a one sprang to life and began materializing bullets and killing children.


Hidden Camera Experiment: Young Kids Drawn to Guns - YouTube

Reminds me of NBS when they rigged car crashes...Network standard now to control the dumbmasses...

NBC-Go BOOM!

 

[Spoonman]

here is what the left needs to realize. interest in guns is growing. growing at an alarming rate. well an alarming rate to gun grabbers. the gun industry is now a $35,000,000,000 industry and growing. Even with an explosion of mail order outlets, brick and mortar locations are on the rise as well. gun shows are enjoying record attendance. and every aspect of the industry is exploding. customization and accessories. once dying arts like reloading and molding bullets are now rebound industries. over 20,000,000 new applications for gun permits, per year, in the last two years. not current owners buying more guns. new gun owners. and these new owners are mostly women and youth reaching the legal age to own a gun. and gun owners are starting to stand up for their rights. gun owners are not only going to fight ridiculous gun grabbing legislation attempting to be passed. gun owners are going to fight to have existing infringing legislation removed. NRA membership has mushroomed. NRA funding is at record levels. and the NRA is only one of many groups lobbying for gun rights.

gun grabbers have deluded themselves to the reality of the situation. they falsely believe their enemy is a bunch of uneducated, red neck, gun nuts and a handful of neo-Nazis. but they are up against mainstream America. well educated, well funded and well connected. supporters are more than gun owners, it includes constitutionalists, set on protecting rights. democrats are gun owners too. and a gun owner is not going to support a party who would take his rights away.

so confident were they in their ability to win, they let their arrogant blindness lead them straight to failure. combine sandy hook with their misinterpretation of reality and you have one of the greatest political misjudgments in history. Gun nuts are in decline, gun sales are all existing gun nuts buying more guns, the number of households owning guns are declining. 85% of Americans want stricter gun laws. Enter Sandy Hook. Dead children. Wow, what an opportunity to exploit. We can't lose they told themselves. but lose they did. they introduced the most restrictive, infringing recommendations a twisted piece of shit like diane feinsten could dream up. out of the block they hit a wall. seems they grossly misjudged what they were up against. little by little the restrictive bill was whittled away. whittle down to basically background checks. Which 85% of americans wanted, right. well members of congress quickly began to find out how wrong that little fact was. goose stepping democrats , up for reelection, realized they would not get reelected if they supported this 85% slam dunk. So nothing happened. the bill failed. and the whole thing was dropped and forgotten about with as little fanfare as possible. blowhard obamas grand statement that he would not let the deaths of school children pass in vain, crawled away with his tail between his legs. he learned a lesson, democrats learned a lesson. the 2nd amendment is not something al but a few deranged nut jobs are willing to give up. but conversely it has galvanized and revitalized the gun community. and now the fight is going to be taken up

 

[The2ndAmendment]

The study wasn't rigged. Kids should be more drawn to the candy than to the shiny weapon on another table. The fact that they ignored the candy and went straight to the gun, even after being told of its dangers, shows that parents need to be more vigilant and hide the guns away from the prying eyes of their kids.

No, it probably means that the kids are exercising their natural survival instincts that have evolved over the past few million years.

They know it's a tool to survive, by making sure another does not survive.

Do you think parents hid their spears and arrows during the past two million years of human history?

Some boys could shoot an arrow into a wild boar at the age of 5 --- on horseback.

THE PUSSIFICATION OF AMERICA --- GETTING WHINIER EVERY DAY

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Don't you think those parents were capable of educating their children about guns? Seriously, "entranced?" What on earth do you mean by "entranced?" Children have an innate curiosity. They are not fixated on one thing or the other. You act as if the gun itself cast some sort of magic spell on them.

The Progressive Elite are the High Priests of Egypt (metaphor).

Serve them, obey them, or the earth shall perish (hey, didn't those ice caps grow this year?)

 

[CaféAuLait]

The study wasn't rigged. Kids should be more drawn to the candy than to the shiny weapon on another table. The fact that they ignored the candy and went straight to the gun, even after being told of its dangers, shows that parents need to be more vigilant and hide the guns away from the prying eyes of their kids.

I believe guns should be locked up around children and I'm only addressing your comment of "Kids should be more drawn to the candy than to the shiny weapon on another table". There are other factors at work here and it has to do with the three speeches they heard before hand about not touching guns and psychology.

Experiments show that children become more interested in a toy after they’re put under severe rather than mild pressure not to play with it...

When a behavior is forbidden or discouraged, it’s hard not to become intrigued. As Chip and Dan Heath write in Made to Stick, “it’s like having an itch we need to scratch.” Experiments reveal, for example, that people are more likely to watch violent TV shows and play violent video games when labels warn against them.

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[Noomi]

The study wasn't rigged. Kids should be more drawn to the candy than to the shiny weapon on another table. The fact that they ignored the candy and went straight to the gun, even after being told of its dangers, shows that parents need to be more vigilant and hide the guns away from the prying eyes of their kids.

No parents should be teaching their kids about guns from day one just like the do other dangers like poisons in the cabinet, the electrical outlet and crossing the street. Of course teaching them respect for authority, the property and lives of others has to go hand in hand with everything else. The schools have a responsibility to reinforce those teaching in a social setting, do you disagree?

The study proved that if kids are left alone with a gun, they are going to go and pick it up. Obviously their lessons on gun safety are having no effect, wouldn't you say?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

The study wasn't rigged. Kids should be more drawn to the candy than to the shiny weapon on another table. The fact that they ignored the candy and went straight to the gun, even after being told of its dangers, shows that parents need to be more vigilant and hide the guns away from the prying eyes of their kids.

No parents should be teaching their kids about guns from day one just like the do other dangers like poisons in the cabinet, the electrical outlet and crossing the street. Of course teaching them respect for authority, the property and lives of others has to go hand in hand with everything else. The schools have a responsibility to reinforce those teaching in a social setting, do you disagree?

The study proved that if kids are left alone with a gun, they are going to go and pick it up. Obviously their lessons on gun safety are having no effect, wouldn't you say?

No. The "experiment" proves no such thing. My grandparents had a lot of rifles and ammo. I never once played with them.

 

[Noomi]

No parents should be teaching their kids about guns from day one just like the do other dangers like poisons in the cabinet, the electrical outlet and crossing the street. Of course teaching them respect for authority, the property and lives of others has to go hand in hand with everything else. The schools have a responsibility to reinforce those teaching in a social setting, do you disagree?

The study proved that if kids are left alone with a gun, they are going to go and pick it up. Obviously their lessons on gun safety are having no effect, wouldn't you say?

No. The "experiment" proves no such thing. My grandparents had a lot of rifles and ammo. I never once played with them.

Just because you listened to instructions doesn't mean every other kid will.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

The study wasn't rigged. Kids should be more drawn to the candy than to the shiny weapon on another table. The fact that they ignored the candy and went straight to the gun, even after being told of its dangers, shows that parents need to be more vigilant and hide the guns away from the prying eyes of their kids.

Kids are always drawn to anything you tell them to stay away from.

 

[The T]

The study wasn't rigged. Kids should be more drawn to the candy than to the shiny weapon on another table. The fact that they ignored the candy and went straight to the gun, even after being told of its dangers, shows that parents need to be more vigilant and hide the guns away from the prying eyes of their kids.

Kids are always drawn to anything you tell them to stay away from.

Human nature is strong...with children? Even more so.

 

[The T]

The study proved that if kids are left alone with a gun, they are going to go and pick it up. Obviously their lessons on gun safety are having no effect, wouldn't you say?

No. The "experiment" proves no such thing. My grandparents had a lot of rifles and ammo. I never once played with them.

Just because you listened to instructions doesn't mean every other kid will.

Then they deserve what they get for not paying HEED, don't they? Consequences...Learn it, Live It, KNOW IT.

 

[Dr Grump]

Then they deserve what they get for not paying HEED, don't they? Consequences...Learn it, Live It, KNOW IT.

Great! So a kid deserves to die because they didn't follow instructions? Brilliant! Fantastic! Excellent!

 

[Shaarona]

I had my Annie Oakley guns and cowboy boots as a child.. My brothers had their coonskin caps and muskets.

How is it that childhood has become so scary and forbidding?

 

[TemplarKormac]

The study proved that if kids are left alone with a gun, they are going to go and pick it up. Obviously their lessons on gun safety are having no effect, wouldn't you say?

No. The "experiment" proves no such thing. My grandparents had a lot of rifles and ammo. I never once played with them.

Just because you listened to instructions doesn't mean every other kid will.

When you say "LOOK THERE'S CANDY OVER THERE!" of course they won't follow instructions.

 

[The Rabbi]

The study wasn't rigged. Kids should be more drawn to the candy than to the shiny weapon on another table. The fact that they ignored the candy and went straight to the gun, even after being told of its dangers, shows that parents need to be more vigilant and hide the guns away from the prying eyes of their kids.

No parents should be teaching their kids about guns from day one just like the do other dangers like poisons in the cabinet, the electrical outlet and crossing the street. Of course teaching them respect for authority, the property and lives of others has to go hand in hand with everything else. The schools have a responsibility to reinforce those teaching in a social setting, do you disagree?

The study proved that if kids are left alone with a gun, they are going to go and pick it up. Obviously their lessons on gun safety are having no effect, wouldn't you say?

You put a shiny taboo unfamiliar object on a table with candy and then are surprised that kids want to go figure out what it is? Really?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Then they deserve what they get for not paying HEED, don't they? Consequences...Learn it, Live It, KNOW IT.

Great! So a kid deserves to die because they didn't follow instructions? Brilliant! Fantastic! Excellent!

Well then, if you are a pro choice liberal, when you revise your stances on abortion, you can lecture him about killing kids. Got it?

 

[M14 Shooter]

It is your responsibility to teach your kids an effective, age appropriate manner in which to safely handle a gun, and drill them until it is second nature. If you fail to do this and your child is involved in a gun accident, at least part of the blame for any injury or death rests on your shoulders.