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"I don't understand. But I don't care, so it works out."
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Originally Posted by Mad_Jasper
It would only matter if someone is brandishing the firearm, real or imitation.
Rather than passing unnecessary laws the better course of action is for parents to teach the children a healthy respect for firearms, authority, and fellow humans. It is not the role of the government to pseudo-parent in the actual parent's absence.
I'm not sure how parents teaching children a "healthy respect for firearms" comes into the picture, when the kids are out playing paintball with commercially available paintball guns that look like real firearms, and can be mistaken for real firearms by passersby.
It would only matter if someone is brandishing the firearm, real or imitation.
Rather than passing unnecessary laws the better course of action is for parents to teach the children a healthy respect for firearms, authority, and fellow humans. It is not the role of the government to pseudo-parent in the actual parent's absence.
Ive taught all my children that in this country the 2nd Amendment is so they can defend themselves from the govt, (if ever need be).
I'm not sure how parents teaching children a "healthy respect for firearms" comes into the picture, when the kids are out playing paintball with commercially available paintball guns that look like real firearms, and can be mistaken for real firearms by passersby.
That's the problem.
Well that statement explains a lot.
When kids are taught a "heathy respect" they are taught how and when to use them. Such as lessons like when you are using your paintball gun don't go into the local convenience store "pretending" to rob it. Don't go walking down the street with your gun so people passing by don't even have the opportunity to mistake it for a real gun...
The problem isn't the kids with a "healthy respect", it is the criminals who can use these guns to commit crimes with no or very minimal consequences.
Please link to police reports, especially those where kids have been shot. You can imagine why I don't believe your post.
It's wonderful that this is the target of a bill... no one is at all interested in ACTUAL gun battles in Chicago? No? Where small kids get killed every weekend?
Shocker.
She should not be your secretary - do your own research or are you just too good?
Location: Unlike most on CD, I'm not afraid to give my location: Milwaukee, WI.
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Another freedom, another little thing, taken from the law-abiding majority because a certain demographic can't behave. In Milwaukee we have an upscale mall that has had many criminal incidents, a game arcade had to be shut down, one annual city festival cancelled, a big church festival had to change venues, the midway (rides) at Summerfest is no more, State Fair has a larger police presence now due to numerous whites being assaulted several years ago, and the basketball court in the park near me was dismantled. All due to violence and/or continuing misbehavior by the usual suspects. If this truth is uncomfortable for some, so be it.
I'm not sure how parents teaching children a "healthy respect for firearms" comes into the picture, when the kids are out playing paintball with commercially available paintball guns that look like real firearms, and can be mistaken for real firearms by passersby.
That's the problem.
Where's the evidence it's a problem?
You know what a real problem is? Kids getting killed in Chicago by gangbangers with real guns.
Let us know when Illinois decides to tackle that one.
ADD: Just figured it out. this is to protect gangbangers. They'll paint their real guns fun colors and if they get shot by a cop, the family will say "it looked like a water pistol, why'd the cop shoot him?" and then sue for millions for wrongful death and win.
NOW it's starting to make sense.
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