Because nothing keeps your family safer than having a gun in the house:
The father of a 4-year-old Cottage Grove boy says his child loaded a bullet into a borrowed gun and accidentally shot himself… Doctors removed the bullet, which had slightly penetrated his skull.
[…] The gun was unloaded, but the boy found a smaller bullet that was the wrong size, and it still fired when loaded in the gun.
You mean the toddler found a “smaller bullet,” just lying around? Jesus… doesn’t the boy’s father know that small objects like that can be a choking hazard?
When my daughter was that age, I never let her play with any cartridge smaller than a .308 Winchester. This father should get a clue.
Goldy–
Certainly this guy was irresponsible and should suffer some consequence.
Beyond that, what is your point?
I know that you are scared of guns Goldy.
Why not go out to the shooting range with Puddy?
He can show you that guns handled responsibly are much safer than bikes!
You might enjoy having the skill to protect your sorry behind….or be able to harvest some game for a great meal.
Your lack of exposure to and handling weapons is obvious. You can do something about it.
Join the NRA. Take a gun safety class like our kids did.
The only thing you have to fear Goldy, is fear itself!
Someone with identity issues is posting with my handle. I’m afraid if we all start doing that, it will create a bigger mess on this Blog.
Goldy, it’s your Blog.
I know you don’t like a lot of rules…which I admire. But this might be where you want to draw the line.
I can tell that the trolls are back on safe ground sniggering about gun-fearin’ liberals who want to take their firearms away from them.
Remember: “Guns don’t kill people! People with guns kill people!”
I’m not a fan of the fetishization of guns, but this is not proof that guns should be banned. Heck, if you’re using this logic, we should be banning swimming pools well before guns.
People fear what they don’t understand. While the article above clearly shows the parent should be held responsible in this particular case, it also shows Goldy’s ignorance and fear of the big bad guns. Maybe if he hadn’t had such a sheltered upbringing, then he wouldn’t be the sniveling little naive worm that he is today. Go ahead Goldy, rely on the police to save you, I’m sure they’ll come a-running for your dumbass. The summation of this is called self-reliance. Check it.
@8: Go ahead Goldy, rely on the police to save you, I’m sure they’ll come a-running for your dumbass. The summation of this is called self-reliance. Check it.
Of course, then there are the right-wing assholes that get their rocks off of with some Charles Bronson / Dirty Harry fantasy.
Let me tell you something from personal experience, asswipe. There are plenty of situations where guns will not help you. In fact, there are others where guns may in fact make things worse. This single-minded devotion to guns as the personal security option of choice is not only stupid, it is downright dangerous. Correct for your immensely small penis in some other way.
I am all for gun rights, just like I’m for the right for people to drive a car if they won’t kill someone with it. I’m just not really for many of the people behind those guns.
Hey, righties?
My understanding (please correct me if I’m wrong here, Goldy) is that Goldy is a supporter of personal gun ownership. He’s opposed to morons with guns.
Leaving a gun out where a four-year-old child can get it should be prima-facie evidence of felony child endangerment.
Darwin awards only go to people that remove their defective genes from the gene pool prior to having children. Once the kids are born, we’ll just hope that education will counter genetics.
I believe in the right to own firearms (I own two). I also believe that the ownership of deadly weapons includes a responsibility to keep and use them safely and in accordance with the law.
There should be no restriction on non-felon adults owning and using firearms, but huge penalties for abuse.
And that includes leaving them out for four-year-olds.
Just because somebody is afraid of something in the hands of somebody else is no reason to ban it. I am more worried about some idiot behind the wheel than my guns doing me harm.
Uh, drool?
Does this mean you’re in favor of giving guns to four-year-olds?
Tell you what. I’ll support laws preventing small children from driving (with penalties for parents that don’t keep their children from driving) if you’ll support keeping deadly weapons away from them.
You ok with that?
Uh, John,
No, I am not. I just do not favor banning guns because some idiot is too stupid to keep one from his kid.
This is a perfect example of how the right hears what it wants to hear.
@ 1, 4, and 10
Did the post advocating “banning guns” get deleted? I don’t see that anyone said that. Goldy, you need to get a smarter variety of wingnuts in here.
Cynical @1,
I was taught how to use a rifle when I was 12, and was a proud member of my overnight camp’s riflery team. In that capacity, over the next couple years, I had the opportunity to handle and shoot a variety of handguns. It was loads of fun. In fact, I absolutely loved shooting.
Of course, I shot exclusively at paper targets, and occasionally other inanimate objects, not animals, not people, and certainly not myself in the head. And while I have no problem with guns being used for sporting purposes, I think the wild west, personal firearm mentality your side promotes is absolutely nuts. Statistics clearly show that the number one factor that puts you and your family at risk of a firearm related injury or death is to have one in the house. That’s a fact.
Folks want to keep their kids safe…? Get ’em a dog. They’re much less likely to lodge in their skull, and nearly impossible to choke on.
Cynical @2,
And I just deleted a bunch of comments from the sock puppet. We keep banning his IP and he keeps logging on with a new one. Nothing much we can do about that other than clean up afterwards.
pOOR gOLDY. yOU MUST HAVE PYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS. hAVE YOU READ mR cYNICAL’S DIAGNOSIS OF YOUR ISSYES RESULTING FROM SELF HATE AS A jEW AND BEING AN ATHIEST?
13-Statistics clearly show that the number one factor that puts you and your family at risk of a firearm related injury or death is to have one in the house. That’s a fact.
This only applies to homes where gang bangers or drug dealers live, or where there is a high level of domestic violence. You need to do some more research before presenting your “facts”.
John Barelli spews:
“Hey, righties?
My understanding (please correct me if I’m wrong here, Goldy) is that Goldy is a supporter of personal gun ownership. He’s opposed to morons with guns.”
I guess in Goldy’s world John, you would be “Gunless in Seattle”!
Goldy–
I’m glad to hear you have actually shot a gun. Hunting is very spiritual. I only kill what I plan to eat….and varmints!
I love target shooting with my neighbors too.
And I love the feeling of protection knowing my 9 mm. Glock is under my bed in a lockbox.
Hmm, this post pretty much proves that the Republican propoganda about “liberals want to outlaw your guns” is just that – propoganda. Seems that Goldie, Barrelli, and yours truely are in favor of responsible gun ownership.
As for myself, I took my first gun safety course at age eight and started target shooting with BB guns at that age (went to a national BB-gun competition later that year). Went on to target shooting in competition with a .22, later in JROTC with a M-14 (qualified Marksman).
I’m not opposed to responsible gun ownership. I just don’t see any legitimate need for keeping an assault gun for hunting purposes, as the NRA insists is an inviolate right. If you need an assault gun for hunting, you need to go back to the range and don’t go hunting again until you know how to hit your target with one shot.
(By the way, somewhere I have some pictures of some ammo that was chewed up by a friend’s dog. He kept the ammo in his basement and locked the dog up there when he went out one day. He came home and found the dog had gotten to the ammo and chewed it up pretty well – lots of bullets bent nearly in half. Amazingly, he never hit the cap, so none of them went off.)
I’m in favor of shooting pit-bulls who get out of their yard.
I’m not sure what the point is here other than the usual liberal whine: “see, see, we need to ban guns”. And the sarcastic, “because nothing keeps your family safer than having a gun in the house”.
I am in favor of banning those damn pit bulls that seem to be everywhere and all too often are owned by morons who appear to be the products of generations of in-breeding.
If one of those rotten creatures comes in my yard and chases my cat, or menaces my elderly neighbors little dog I can guarantee it will taste a few hollow points.