Choosing a Gun

[IQS.RLOW]

You should help Gillard and the rest of the fed caucus pick out their preferred cranial air conditioning unit

[mellie]

There is a whole generation who have spent the last 12 years at war. When (if?) they come home, there will be social consequences in a scale greater than Vietnam.

The difference between the Vietnam generation and the Iraq/Afhganistan generation is that the Vietnam vets were not treated as returning heroes like the current generation of soldiers. Instead they were vilified. I think that will make a difference. That being said, one reads of military suicides every day.

I think also this pretty well defines much of our youth these days, with their being told how wonderful they are as soon as they can walk, (positive reinforcement apparently) ... so now, we have a generation of conceited and often lazy young people who really think they are the greatest, and many of them thinking so without having done much at all.

I make a point of not telling my kids they are fantastic, unless of course they do something extraordinary and deserve a well earned congratulations, and even then, I don't go over board.

The trouble is, too many of them think themselves heroes before they have left school, much less joined the defense force.

Then, they get a rude shock when they realise they aren't as wonderful as mummy and daddy said they were afterall.

I am proud of my kids, and brag about them often, but not too much to their faces. They know they have to work for their positive reinforcement, this and also know when I tell them they have done a good job, I actually mean it.

[AiA in Atlanta]

[Mattus]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/08 ... fs-deputy/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

4-year-old grabs loaded gun at family BBQ and accidentally kills wife of Tennessee sheriff’s deputy

NASHVILLE — Authorities say a 4-year-old boy grabbed a loaded gun at a family cookout and accidentally shot and killed the wife of a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy.

Investigators say Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning on Saturday was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of his Lebanon home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed. Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning.

She was pronounced dead at the scene. The child is not related to her or her husband.

Bryan says the shooting was a terrible accident and that within seconds of Fanning placing the gun on the bed, the toddler picked it up.“It’s a sad, sad set of circumstances,” Bryan told local television.

The gun was not Fanning’s service weapon and the sheriff says the deputy’s weapons are normally stored in a safe.

CBS News reported the Fannings were only married last year.

[IQS.RLOW]

You can't legislate against stupid

[AiA in Atlanta]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/08 ... fs-deputy/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

4-year-old grabs loaded gun at family BBQ and accidentally kills wife of Tennessee sheriff’s deputy

NASHVILLE — Authorities say a 4-year-old boy grabbed a loaded gun at a family cookout and accidentally shot and killed the wife of a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy.

Investigators say Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning on Saturday was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of his Lebanon home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed. Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning.

She was pronounced dead at the scene. The child is not related to her or her husband.

Bryan says the shooting was a terrible accident and that within seconds of Fanning placing the gun on the bed, the toddler picked it up.“It’s a sad, sad set of circumstances,” Bryan told local television.

The gun was not Fanning’s service weapon and the sheriff says the deputy’s weapons are normally stored in a safe.

CBS News reported the Fannings were only married last year.

That kind of thing happens all the time here in the States. People don't even blink. The Newtown Massacre is already being forgotten ...

[AiA in Atlanta]

and just yesterday a 4 year old shot a 6 year old in the head. just another week in america ....

[Rorschach]

Stoopid Americans...

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Shame America shame...

[Neferti]

Even should another President be assassinated, the NRA would still say guns are normal and every kid of 6 should have one. It's the American Way!

[Black Orchid]

I'm not condoning it in any sense. It's a disgrace. But at least they can trace gun ownership in the USA. Here in Sydney, as people get shot every other day, they know who pulls the trigger but cannot do a thing unless they have a witness. As if that will ever happen.