^^^ bang.
So, where does the argument about the video game graphics come in to play? I know it has been brought up just about every time there is a mass shooting somewhere, that kids are learning this stuff from video games. I have played those games, yet I've never shot anyone. While I can see how you can get the basics of pointing a gun, you cant learn the little intricacies of calculating drop and wind.
Do you guys think this is desensitizing the youth, and aiding poor education?
Just a thought, sorry if its a thread jack.
I'm a known blasphemer… irreverently questioning dogma, rolling my eyes at cliches and busting myths for well over a decade.
How does that answer either of my questions?
By telling you yet again that I wouldn't let kids do force on force. I don't think it is cool for kids to point real guns, cap guns, bb guns, airsoft guns, cheese bitten into gun shape at each other. I do not think it is appropriate for that age, but it should be up to the parents.
By telling you yet again that I wouldn't let kids do force on force. I don't think it is cool for kids to point real guns, cap guns, bb guns, airsoft guns, cheese bitten into gun shape at each other. I do not think it is appropriate for that age, but it should be up to the parents.
Nowhere in my questions did you see any mention of kids
C'mon Kirk, you can't go making exceptions to pointing without hurting your gun expert street cred
[A gun in a glass case can blow my jimmy off./QUOTE]
It can, if it is being handled.
We certainly have plenty of evidence of "unloaded" guns in gun stores or gun shows being discovered to be loaded. Heck, a member of INGO who runs a pharmacy and gun stores has a jar of rounds that have come from unloaded guns. We have plenty of news reports where people have been shot in the genitals by people who were too cool for the Four Rules and shot themselves or others.
The thread is about kids. If you want to make your own thread that is fine, but the OP is about teaching children.
If you think I am an expert, you are mistaken. If you are being sarcastic, then . . . love it!
I still wouldn't have children taught that it is ever OK to points guns or gun like objects or a graham cracker bitten into a gun shape at others. I don't think making shades of gray arguments for kids helps the kids or the larger gun culture. This is my opinion and like that other thing it may stink but I feel I have solid evidence for having said opinion.
We have compelling evidence about what happens when people confuse guns and gun like objects. I feel this supports my blanket prohibition for kids.
[A gun in a glass case can blow my jimmy off./QUOTE]
It can, if it is being handled.
We certainly have plenty of evidence of "unloaded" guns in gun stores or gun shows being discovered to be loaded. Heck, a member of INGO who runs a pharmacy and gun stores has a jar of rounds that have come from unloaded guns. We have plenty of news reports where people have been shot in the genitals by people who were too cool for the Four Rules and shot themselves or others.
You're entire anti pointing crusade has only been directed towards children? Lol. You don't remember the lengthy debate on proper gun orientation in gun shops? Whether rifles and shotguns in racks should be pointed up or down and how what floor the gun shop was on affected proper orientation?
This anti pointing crusade is an impossible task that cannot be achieved but the doesn't stop the hipocrits from posting it. They know full well they do it but they've got to maintain that Internet expert cred.
Think of all those LEOs driving around with ARs laying flat in their trunks. They're a pothole away from a drive by shooting.
It's no wonder non gun owners are deathly afraid when they see a gun. Their owners are.
You're entire anti pointing crusade has only been directed towards children?
You don't remember the lengthy debate on proper gun orientation in gun shops?
Gun shops? I have no idea what you are talking about, horn. Not tracking.
Handling guns in gun shops? You mean the coonfingering in parking lots outside gun shows and gun shops?
What does this have to do with kids and letting kids point guns, or gun-like objects, at people?
In all of your 4 rules rantings, you never allow caveats but in this thread, it's about the children.
People were actually arguing about how guns were displayed in wall racks and display cases.
Tell me how to properly inspect the rifling on an m1 garand at a gun show without pointing the muzzle at my eye.