The Great ILX Gun Control Debate

it's almost like it's unsettling whenever you see someone openly carrying a gun

weird

possibly racist vaguely inscrutable macro that just popped up on facebook
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yeah good old "you're not helping" politics from the left (also that's been floating around for weeks)

I've been watching a lot of Deadwood lately. Maybe if we build some open carry saloons, the people who want open carry will just shoot each other.

Only possibly racist?

at least in the context i saw it in, that macro was placed as "pro gun rights people, your double standards are exposed by dipset" so the racism is maybe a little less overtly intended

i have a 'if u outlaw guns then only boss hogg outlawz will have guns' joke but fuck that macro

if you take the guns from the citizenry, only rappers will carry guns

One argument recently favored by the pro-gun media and lobbyists is that gun control is inherently racist, because poor blacks need free access to guns to protect themselves and their families from inner city violence. The USA is kinda fucked up.

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which one is supposed to be the child? also why is bob the builder open carrying, he has lots of heavy tools and machinery he can use to kill people.

no one knows what it's like behind blue eyes

fuck man, everyone here seems to have mistaken guns for their goddamn lungs or something, it is completely impossible to float the idea that they are hurting people. everyone is apparently in chains unless they own a gun, such is the pathology of us culture. they are all in chains but a stick isnt going to help w that.

choice to use police e-fit style illustration actually incredibly poignant

uzis don't kill people, nine-year-old girls do

Glad she didn't get killed herself like that kid at the gun show in Massachusetts did a few years back.

^^^

it's just bonkers even by dumb paper target shootin standards to allow a 9 yr old girl to fire an uzi.

scratch "girl" and you are completely OTM

I don't know if I'd trust myself to fire an Uzi and I'm an old-ass adult

ha i didn't mean that to sound sexist, i'd probably have said "boy" there too. anyway anytime i've had an opportunity to fire a gun i've politely declined (since i hit adulthood i mean, i fired a few in my teenage years.) those things terrify me.

Ronald Scott, a firearms safety expert, said ........ "You can't give a 9-year-old an Uzi and expect her to control it,"

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why is the limit even 10 years old? Do you really gain Uzi touting ability in that one year?

Congrats to those parents, though, for scarring the child with the experience of killing a man when she's this young.

The video is horrifying

america is horrifying!

she was no angel.

Congrats to those parents, though, for scarring the child with the experience of killing a man when she's this young.

my first thought when i heard the story this morning.

so stupid

How on earth are you allowed to set up shop as a family attraction based around firing military grade automatic weaponry

there's a sign for a place in Green Bay called "Family Shooting Academy" that I always laugh at. cute logo:

http://img2.findthebest.com/sites/default/files/280/media/images/Family_Shooting_Academy__329725.png

Danas questioned why the instructor in Arizona was standing immediately to the left of the Uzi, which would have recoiled in that direction.

"It's an awful shame," he said. "He shouldn't have been to the left side of the gun... But that child should not have been shooting anything other than a single-shot firearm."

Danas, whose daughters are 11 and 13, said his girls learned to shoot when they were 4 years old, with a single-shot, .22-caliber pistol.

at least use a pellet gun, sheesh

I mean, right? Or one that fires blanks or something?

or just do something else entirely

http://www.myparentsopencarry.com/

http://i.imgur.com/KXNCu61.jpg

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/08/26/bitter-irony/

Plus, in other gun culture news . . .

The star of the Discovery Channel’s reality show Sons of Guns was arrested Tuesday on charges of aggravated rape of his daughter.

According to FoxNews.com, the East Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sheriff’s Department confirmed that Hayden is accused of raping his 14-year-old daughter in a series of assaults that began with him taking her virginity at the age of 11.

TMZ reported that Hayden’s daughter is backing up the allegations, claiming that her father forced her to participate in oral and vaginal sex “almost daily” for the past three years.

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The range owner said the instructor who died was a very close friend, like a brother to him. And then defended keeping the range open and continuing to hold CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY PARTIES involving firearms.

Basically if I were his actual brother I might be worried.

By god men didn't fight and die so children could be stripped of the right to be made to shoot Uzis by their crappy parents

seriously. even if your kid genuinely wants to shoot a gun, she can probably be satisfied with playing baseball for awhile.

The Amazon reviews of My Parents Open Carry are predictably entertaining:

http://www.amazon.com/Parents-carry-Brian-Nathan-Nephew/dp/098317511X

I think what you need to ask yourself is, "Will I be a cooler parent/person after my 9-yo daughter has fired an Uzi?" and if the answer is yes, kill yourself.

Or just let her fire that Uzi. Odds are ...

oh americapaws

Family of instructor killed at Arizona gun range does not blame girl

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/29/us-usa-arizona-shooting-idUSKBN0GT2AA20140829

They... probably could've phrased the headline better.

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