BamaD
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When I was a kid, my father took me out to a shooting range with a .22 rifle. I must have been 8 or 9 at the time. Before bullets were even put into the gun, my Dad explained gun safety to me. He showed me what to do and what not to do. He had me go over the rules with him and he had me repeat everything back to him. He never left my side and he guided me every step of the way. I am all for gun safety and responsible gun ownership.
This article simply points to stupidity and how ridiculous and arrogant some parents are to think that their child is able to handle something like this. These were not responsible parents, nor was the instructor a responsible adult. The thing that makes me sick is that this kid is going to have to live with this the rest of her life. I am all for child services to come in and take the kid and have the parents charged with reckless endangerment.
That a gun was involved can be spun however way you want it to depending on your political bent, however what cannot be spun is the underlying cause for this tragic accident to have happened in the first place. Of course kids die in this country every day, so, it doesn't make this article better because it has a gun in it, it makes it worse simply because this is how far we have sunk in this country. We have a generation of undisciplined children raising a generation of undisciplined children and what we see every day is the result. I am not even sure we can reverse this trend, and I certainly do not know how to stop it. I wish I did.
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Right, my kid had the rules down, not as rules, but simply as the way things are. The problem here is bad parenting. The parents don't seem to have, as the saying goes, "enough sense to pound sand in a rat hole" (personally I would prefer a ferret, but I digress,), and don't know when to say no. Clearly they didn't know how to choose someone to teach her gun safety because he didn't know what he was doing.
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