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     Bryan Message Board Member Username: Bryan Post Number: 14 Registered: 06-2012 |
One clear thinking kid. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/23/phoenix-boy-14-shoots-armed-intruder-while-watching-three-younger-siblings/?test=latestnews | ||
| Redhawk4 Message Board Member Username: Redhawk4 Post Number: 3175 Registered: 02-2009  |
I thought this was a great example of a responsible kid being able to succesfully protect his siblings against what sounded like a very dangerous armed intruder. How well do you think this would have gone if not for the 2nd Amendment? What would the gun bannners happy ending have been to this scenario, the one surviving child managing to make a good life for themselves after years of therapy? | ||
| Coopercdrkey Message Board Member Username: Coopercdrkey Post Number: 150 Registered: 11-2011  |
I am delighted that this incident ended as it did. The young man absolutely proved to be the protector of his home and his siblings. A couple of other interesting questions arrise, however. Since he knew the exact location of a loaded firearm, I only hope that his parents taught him the and his younger siblings the dangers and responsibilities of handling the weapon. It would certainly appear so. This is a much happier (?) ending than the stories of a child injuring or killing another kid by playing with a loaded pistol. What a potential Catch 22! You leave four kids alone in a house with a loaded firearm that they know where to find.... Scenario 1- Intruder with a gun is stopped from whatever mayhem he had in mind. Scenario 2- one kid or another is playing with the gun and hurts or kills his sibling. Tough one, for me, anyhow..... | ||
| Louiethelump Message Board Member Username: Louiethelump Post Number: 3733 Registered: 12-2010  |
My kids grew up with guns in the house. Their dad carried one all the time and came home for dinner most nights. By about 6 or 7 each had been to the range and fired one, and been taught they were not toys and the destruction they could cause. They were no mystery to them and not an item of curiosity. At 16, both of my younger ones (the oldest one had no interest) had their own guns and were competing on the Explorer pistol team. In one incident my son took a gun from a neighbor kid who had been ridiculed by another neighbor kid and had gotten his grandfather's gun to go shoot the kid. He unloaded and cleared the weapon and kept it from the other kid until adults came home. Teenage kids are capable of being responsible with guns if taught. The most dangerous kid/gun combination is the kid whose only contact with guns is on TV or video games. | ||
| Coopercdrkey Message Board Member Username: Coopercdrkey Post Number: 151 Registered: 11-2011 |
+1, and Amen.... | ||
| Redhawk4 Message Board Member Username: Redhawk4 Post Number: 3180 Registered: 02-2009 |
Absolutely, teaching your children about guns, letting them handle them and fire them takes away the mystery and the need to go play with them when the opportunity arises. Allowing guns to be available for protection of your children when in the home is an individual decision, but about 9 years ago where I lived a girl of about this age was able to fend of an intruder who tricked her way in to the house looking for prescription drugs in the bathrooms. Her Dad was a policeman and had taught them from a young age to be able to shoot and where a firearm would be located in the home if ever needed. No shooting occurred, but the intruder left very quickly when the gun came out. |
