Is this how you raise your kids?

[Buddy_Christ]

Gf ran out to the store the other night. She's driving down the road and there's a car next to her. She keeps hearing this "bang bang bang" and finally looks over. There's a little black girl, no older than 8 or 9, sitting in the passenger's seat with a cap gun "shooting" at her. The father was smiling and laughing the entire time.

That just doesn't seem like the right thing to be letting your kids do. Maybe it's just me and my respect for firearms that says "don't let your kids think of guns as toys," or maybe it's the whole image of a kid growing up thinking this is ok and taking it one step further eventually because of how much violence we see on TV and in the movies and how a lot of people believe this leads kids to grow up willing to express more violence and thinking it's ok to do so.

I know if I did something like that as a kid, my dad would've yelled at me the first time and if I did it a second time, I would've got my ass whippped.

Discuss.

 

[Dunk]

hand guns, prince alberts. what is this world coming to?

 

[milo hobgoblin]

My dad was a cop for 20 years.. he would have whipped my ass so hard Id still be crying.

The ONLY time we would do shit liek that is when me and my kid friends were playing Army..

But to point a toy gun at someone like that.. oh the beatings would have been severe.

 

[tuc biscuit]

my kneecaps would have been in my dad's (peter's) iron grip

 

[habitualhealth]

I know if I did something like that as a kid, my dad would've yelled at me the first time and if I did it a second time, I would've got my ass whippped.

Discuss.

I would've had the crap beat out of me too. No strike two's for me.

 

[KillahBee]

agreed, it seems like the father missed an opp to teach his daughter something.

my father would have just punched me in the grill - which A LOT of kids need today

 

[Deterass]

With the way shit is today its definitely not safe to ride around pointing toy guns at people.

 

[SoKlueles]

omggggg my parents would have kicked my butt
I always even hated BB guns

 

[Buddy_Christ]

My dad was a cop for 20 years.. he would have whipped my ass so hard Id still be crying.

The ONLY time we would do shit liek that is when me and my kid friends were playing Army..

But to point a toy gun at someone like that.. oh the beatings would have been severe.

No shit. I was in our barracks once and a guy in our unit was sitting in a HWWMV fucking around with his (issued) 9mm. He was joking around and pointing it up towards me (the guy did like fucking around a lot). I was standing up on the 2nd floor and yelled out to him that it wasn't a fucking joke and to knock the shit off. He says, "it isn't loaded." I told him I didn't give a flying fuck. Him and his SSgt had stopped by the barracks for something and his SSgt heard me, then saw what he was doing. I swear his SSgt was ready to drag him out of the HWWMV and kick the shit out of him and I was too.

Ran into the guy a few days later and he apologized. He said when they got back out into the feild, they made him stay up for 2 nights in a row doing firewatch and gave him tons of pointless BS to do all day long. He was exhausted and said he deserved it for being stupid.

 

[PBR]

i cant tell you how many unloaded guns have been fired around me...when i see a gun its always loaded i dont care WTF you tell me....

if that kid had of been in cali- the CHP would have been called via cell phone, an air-unit dispatched, and a felony stop would have ensued upon the highway....eyewitness news would have captured the entire incident.....

 

[needtogetaas]

agreed, it seems like the father missed an opp to teach his daughter something.

my father would have just punched me in the grill - which A LOT of kids need today

same her

 

[Buddy_Christ]

i cant tell you how many unloaded guns have been fired around me...when i see a gun its always loaded i dont care WTF you tell me....

if that kid had of been in cali- the CHP would have been called via cell phone, an air-unit dispatched, and a felony stop would have ensued upon the highway....eyewitness news would have captured the entire incident.....

Respect of firearms is lacking in a lot of people. I'm itching to hit the range but my son is home with me every day for the next 2 weeks. He's 4 1/2 and I'm kind of hesitant to take him with me. I'm sure I could pound the rules into him, but I don't know how he'd react to the noise and I do not want to scare him off the range. I'd like to get him into shooting eventually and teach him respect for firearms, plus give him something we can do together and both enjoy. You know, one of those father-son things.

 

[needtogetaas]

Respect of firearms is lacking in a lot of people. I'm itching to hit the range but my son is home with me every day for the next 2 weeks. He's 4 1/2 and I'm kind of hesitant to take him with me. I'm sure I could pound the rules into him, but I don't know how he'd react to the noise and I do not want to scare him off the range. I'd like to get him into shooting eventually and teach him respect for firearms, plus give him something we can do together and both enjoy. You know, one of those father-son things.

how old is your son

 

[Buddy_Christ]

how old is your son

Line 2 - 4 1/2.

I'd be taking the Makarov (9x18) and the AK-47 out to the range. I'm sure he could pull the trigger on both, it's not a heavy pull on either unless the hammer isn't cocked back on the Makarov. I sure as hell would NOT hand it to him and say "go ahead." I'd have 2 hands on IF he asked to shoot. I did this with my gf's daughter when she was the same age. She insisted she wanted to try.

I'd have to take a milk jug filled with water and hit it with the AK to show him why we don't shoot people. Watched a guy on the range do that with a .308 to show his son how dangerous guns are. The kid sat there with his jaw on the ground, but he was 7 or 8.

 

[Smurfy]

crak thats interesting. i dont allow my son to point his toy guns at me or anyone else even though he is playing. i also dont allow him to take the guns into the car because I know he will want to wave it around and i told him thats not something you joke about - rollin in a car waving a gun, even if its a plastic one.

 

[Buddy_Christ]

crak thats interesting. i dont allow my son to point his toy guns at me or anyone else even though he is playing. i also dont allow him to take the guns into the car because I know he will want to wave it around and i told him thats not something you joke about - rollin in a car waving a gun, even if its a plastic one.

Yeah, it's not always a great idea to do something like that. My gf pulled my handgun out of the glovebox once to look at it while we were driving and got yelled at right away for holding it up above the edge of the door. I told her if she wanted to look at it to put it in her lap or put it the hell away and wait til we got home. After a minute or so I told her to put it away, she was making me uncomfortable even though it wasn't loaded, slide was locked to the rear, and I had taken the magizine out.

First day I had it she was holding it and pointed it across the room in my direction. I was ready to pistol whip her. Her ignorance was not bliss.

I have yet to get her out to the range with me. I'd love to take her and teach her how to shoot but she's not a big fan of firearms and has never shot before.

 

[Griz1]

http://www.canadianparents.ca/CPO/InTheNews/2005/05/02/1022436.html

interesting

 

[jrlex]

Gf ran out to the store the other night. She's driving down the road and there's a car next to her. She keeps hearing this "bang bang bang" and finally looks over. There's a little black girl, no older than 8 or 9, sitting in the passenger's seat with a cap gun "shooting" at her. The father was smiling and laughing the entire time.

That just doesn't seem like the right thing to be letting your kids do. Maybe it's just me and my respect for firearms that says "don't let your kids think of guns as toys," or maybe it's the whole image of a kid growing up thinking this is ok and taking it one step further eventually because of how much violence we see on TV and in the movies and how a lot of people believe this leads kids to grow up willing to express more violence and thinking it's ok to do so.

I know if I did something like that as a kid, my dad would've yelled at me the first time and if I did it a second time, I would've got my ass whippped.

Discuss.

I'm so in love with Masuimi...Damm you for turning me on to her..Damm you I say!!! DaMM YOU!!!!!

 

[Steve The Bluesman]

Was the little girl holding the cap gun sideways - gangsta-style?

 

[Buddy_Christ]

Was the little girl holding the cap gun sideways - gangsta-style?

I didn't ask.

She should've called 911 and reported them as driving around with a kid flashing a handgun out the window of the car. Would've fucked his day up bigtime and he wouldn't of thought it was so funny anymore.

Imagine the fun I'd have if I was driving and pulled my handgun out from under the seat. I think good ol dad would've shit a brick at that point.

 

[Razorguns]

Which is why everytime i see a criminal thug -- i see a pair of parents somewhere that didn't do their job and now society has to suffer.

Which is also why, cold as it may seem, i could care less when i see some mother of some bastard thug youth get gunned down. Well tough shit mom of the year. That's what happens when you spend more time smoking crack then paying attention to your kids.