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Why these people giving weapons to their kids before they're even in high school?
I could see if you're really into guns and you want to teach your kid the importance of gun safety, etc. But that firearm should 110% be under lock and key so that the child has no way to access it outside of parental supervision. This sounds like gross negligence, and a disturbing trend of parents for whatever reason buying troubled youth firearms in what I think most would consider counter to good judgement.
Edit - Ugh... It's even worse after reading this part..
If your kid is really into guns, then buy them a bb gun for fucks sake. Teach them gun safety with something that won’t kill anyone. What kind of brain dead parents are out there thinking that buying a child a gun is a good idea? THE KID’S NOT EVEN OLD ENOUGH TO DRIVE FFS
You know... This whole gun thing. You're on to something. Some people are absolutely brain dead and have no critical thinking skills. That's what scares me about guns. Even with the argument that guns are just tools. Have you looked around America and seen the types of people that exist? Now imagine them all owning guns.
Fucking scary.
Should be illegal to buy a child a gun until they are 18. You can 2A all you want about defending the country but you fuckers ain't gonna tell me you will have a child in your militia. Can't drive until 16, can't smoke until 18, can't drink until 21 but you can go out and fire deadly weapons whenever your parents say it's cool.
"We absolutely will." -Conservatives
If they can work in meat processors, they can join the militia.
/s
21 now to smoke.
And hopefully they keep charging the parents. Got kids? Got firearms? They better be locked in a safe and only the parent should know the code...some people are dumb as fuck.
I didn’t know childproof door locks were so serious now adays.
Why these people giving weapons to their kids after the sheriff first contacted you to investigate school shooting threats your kid made online,
I think part of the reason for this is that you have a lot of these dipshit parents who see headlines like this and think "the LiBeRaLs are going to use this week's school shooting as justification for taking our guns; I'll show them, I'll give my children guns and be the proof that guns aren't the problem". At least, with how often I see the sentiment of "well my kids have guns and haven't killed anybody" across social media, that's my assumption.
They all think they're responsible gun owners. And maybe some of them are. Hell, maybe most of them are. But a non-zero amount aren't, and we need to have safeguards in place instead of "nothing we can do but pray for stronger doors on the schools".
Except responsible gun owners wouldn't buy their child a gun and give them access to it whenever they please. Any firearms I may or may not possess would be locked in a safe which no one but any spouse I may hypothetically have had access to. Unfortunately I lost all my firearms in a tragic boating accident a few years back.
What I'm trying to say is that, while the government shouldn't be allowed to come check that people have their guns locked up when not in use, there should absolutely be repercussions for anyone found to not be doing so.
Why giving waepons to a child at all?
People like this put the "toxic" in toxic masculinity. "Oh, my son is having a hard time maturing and posted school shooting threats online? He just needs to grow up, firearms will help with that!"
Can we please get gun reform yet!? This doesn't happen in other countries...