Mother defends family...makes mainstream news

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  • My neighbor's mother was telling me how the 2 year old knows that there is a gun located in their hallway coat closet. And that it's loaded. She then mentioned to my neighbor how they need to move the gun immediately and not to let the kids know where. It's so uncomforting to know that the 2 year old knows how to get to a gun...
  • jmuscatellojmuscatello Colorado Posts: 332
    I'll probably be up at 2 am worrying about that 2 year old... it's what I do
    when my kids first started going to their friends' houses I felt like I couldn't stop giving them the "gun talk" over and over and over (as in, if little Johnny says there's one in the house he wants to show you, run out of that house as fast as you can and call me) ....
    kids are curious and guns are pretty fascinating to most of them
  • I'll probably be up at 2 am worrying about that 2 year old... it's what I do
    when my kids first started going to their friends' houses I felt like I couldn't stop giving them the "gun talk" over and over and over (as in, if little Johnny says there's one in the house he wants to show you, run out of that house as fast as you can and call me) ....
    kids are curious and guns are pretty fascinating to most of them

    Good luck raising your child with such variables that ultimately are out of your control.

    You can't keep your kid in a bubble... and you can't keep your kid from falling into contact with morons. It's a freaking crapshoot.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • jmuscatellojmuscatello Colorado Posts: 332

    I'll probably be up at 2 am worrying about that 2 year old... it's what I do
    when my kids first started going to their friends' houses I felt like I couldn't stop giving them the "gun talk" over and over and over (as in, if little Johnny says there's one in the house he wants to show you, run out of that house as fast as you can and call me) ....
    kids are curious and guns are pretty fascinating to most of them

    Good luck raising your child with such variables that ultimately are out of your control.

    You can't keep your kid in a bubble... and you can't keep your kid from falling into contact with morons. It's a freaking crapshoot.
    Agreed, it's all out of our control.... had to give up that illusion early on or I would've been over the edge by now. That Columbine & 911 one-two punch made it sink in pretty quickly.
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157

    they need to teach self defense in PE class in schools. that is all there is to it. i had a few mma fights in 2008 and 2009. before 2007 i had always run from a fight. there has to be a better way of protecting ourselves.

    every parent should put their kid in a boxing club

    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157

    they need to teach self defense in PE class in schools. that is all there is to it. i had a few mma fights in 2008 and 2009. before 2007 i had always run from a fight. there has to be a better way of protecting ourselves.

    every parent should put their kid in a boxing club

    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited February 2014
    Cosmo said:

    Here's the thing... stories like this can easily go either way... hero or villian.
    This is a story of a hero... where the gun owner is there to protect children. But, there are stories where the gun owner is the villian... such as this one:
    http://news.yahoo.com/39-feel-accountable-39-regret-dad-whose-gun-181719089--abc-news-topstories.html;_ylt=AwrSyCNCRAZTcVMAtZ3QtDMD
    "His daughter, Cierra, 9, and her 10-year-old friend Eric Klyaz had been handling his gun - a 9 mm pistol - when it went off. Eric was killed.
    Francis said he kept the unloaded gun stored in a box in the garage with the ammunition kept separate. The prosecutor argued that the gun had been loaded."
    ...
    I guess my point is, we can credit some people and blame others regarding the presence of guns in households with children. No matter how well we plan to train our kids of the dangers of guns and teach gun safety (reference Adam Landza), the fact remains, as long as humans remain in the equation, errors are a great probability.
    This original story would have never been posted is the story went the other way and one of the children brought the gun to school. In that case, the mother would not be held as a hero, right?
    ...
    And I suppose another point is this... these types of stories support neither side of the gun debate. They are alll anecdotal, at best. For every story that is brought about that supports one side... there is another story to counter it... regardless of which side you support. Gun supporters will only present those stories that support their side of the arguement and gun control advocates willl only provide stories that support their view. The rest of us need to take them all for what they are worth.

    those kids were not taught a single thing about guns


    in this story i don't consider the mom really a hero at all. she did her thing by running some young punks out of her home.
    Post edited by chadwick on
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
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