I'll be giving my kid my .22 when it turns 4 but I plan to actually raise it and do that thing that makes kids not shoot people.... parenting I think it's called?

Personally I am more disturbed by his attempted **** of his own mother. Seriously, who the hell does that?

Somewhere out there Jack Thompson is jizzing himself right now.


As for the firearm comment, I received my .22 when I was ten, but my parents taught me about discipline and safety. Never once did I have the urge to go grab it each time my parents grounded me, which was almost a daily occurrence mind you, and 24 years later I still have that rifle and both parents. I know it can be hard to comprehend, but kids can be responsible and not immediately turn into a little Kim Jong the second they're handed a firearm.
Personally I am more disturbed by his attempted **** of his own mother. Seriously, who the hell does that?

stories like this make me not ever want to have children. well that and the whole misery of being pregnant thing. seems to me people aren't even allowed to be parents anymore. you discipline a child...it's physical abuse. you threaten them with the possibility of discipline...it's psychological abuse. you verbally scold them...it's verbal abuse.

they aren't allowed to be wrong. they aren't allowed to lose.

and if you dare to attempt contradicting that standard by actually punishing or scolding a child, you'll have some nosy ******* neighbor calling the social workers on you. parents can't win these days.

this has been going on for a long time already and we see the results in the paper, in the grocery store, at the movie theater and walking down the street everyday.

I'll be giving my kid my .22 when it turns 4 but I plan to actually raise it and do that thing that makes kids not shoot people.... parenting I think it's called?

I am pretty sure that it is called "blanks" or "locking away the ammo".

Just stumbled over this Youtube video about a kid sexually assaulting his mother and then shooting her with a rifle because she took away his copy of Call of Duty.

Video in question

The article about it

This is seriously disturbing news, and I just can't help but wonder what the heck were their parents thinking when they gave their at the time 11 year old kid a lethal firearm. And I sure damn hope that no politician will instantly jump on the Violent-Video-Games-Are-Bad-And-Should-Be-Banned bandwagon.

Two things, parental upbringing and antipsychotic drugs (side-effects).
Either or both can turn anyone into a crazy/zombie.

You don't need a gun to kill in a rage. Baseball bats, kitchen knife etc. etc. can be just as efficient.
The type of weapon used is irrelevant.

Antipsychotic drugs were not mentioned in the article unless I missed it.
Although the older generation of neuroleptics have severe side effects (most notably movement disorders and sedation) spontaneous eruptions of violence are not amongst them and are usually rather a symptom of the disorder that led to this medication in the first place.

I think we can all agree that giving this nutjob access to a firearm was not a very smart thing to do.

I think we can all agree that giving this nutjob access to a firearm was not a very smart thing to do.

I'll be giving my kid my .22 when it turns 4 but I plan to actually raise it and do that thing that makes kids not shoot people.... parenting I think it's called?

5-year-old Kentucky boy fatally shoots 2-year-old sister
"A Kentucky mother stepped outside of her home just for a few minutes, but it was long enough for her 5-year-old son to accidentally shoot and kill his 2-year-old sister with the .22-caliber rifle he got for his birthday, state officials said."

If you're dumb enough to let your kids kill each other, that's fine. However, if your stupidity were to get *my* kid killed...

What's the effective killing range of a .22, neighbor?

And now we are going into the pro/anti gun debate which has been disallowed from the forums. Time to lock this one.

Words fail me except OMG, Poor woman. Awful.

If individual parents can't be trusted to keep their kids away from M rated violent shooters, or to keep their kids from shooting off a gun randomly, when is it permissible for society to step in?

At the risk of being very unpopular....

This holds true across the spectrum with people being fundamentally broken by their parents. Reading the childhood of the Norwegian mass shooter Anders Breivik.... Seems that that entire thing could have been avoided if his far more mentally stable and reliable father (a diplomat in the Norwegian civil service) been awarded custody over his mother. I'm fairly certain the details aren't for on these forums, but even a cursory glance its a wonder he didn't snap sooner.

I know of one postpartum mom who tried to drown her kid in a steam, went to a psych clinic, got out, sued for custody from the father and got it, even before she had slept around on the father while they were married. This is with the child protests to stay with the father whom is the only parent they knew.

Courts are fundamentally biased towards mothers even sometimes at the child's peril.

At the risk of being very unpopular....

This holds true across the spectrum with people being fundamentally broken by their parents. Reading the childhood of the Norwegian mass shooter Anders Breivik.... Seems that that entire thing could have been avoided if his far more mentally stable and reliable father (a diplomat in the Norwegian civil service) been awarded custody over his mother. I'm fairly certain the details aren't for on these forums, but even a cursory glance its a wonder he didn't snap sooner.