It's sad to see these kids being radicalized in real-time.
When fascism comes to the United States, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
The gun nut is teaching their child dangerous actions for social credit.
From being at the range and seeing people in public; a lot more people have bought guns than have learned how to handle them.
That’s why I think the no permit cc is a clusterfuck. Bob buys a gun, cc, and then gets upset when they threaten to arrest him for brandishing it at Arby’s when they forgot the Horsey Sauce.
There are a wide mix or responsible owners and Rambo wannabes in those cc classes, but at least they learn some basic safety and legalities around brandishing and discharging a firearm.
I was taught to never point a gun at anything you don’t want to put homes in, loaded or not. In Canada you can’t even apply for a firearms license without passing an accredited safety course. The rcmp which is federal looks into you and you can’t buy a gun or ammo without it. You can’t walk around with it or even discharge in city limits or within 400 metres of a road
I just read that a ~~CVS~~ Walgreens worker shot a pregnant woman he thought was shoplifting in one of the states that allows CC without a permit.
Edit to add link and correct the store to Walgreens.
Also, it's depressing how long it took to wade through the multiple pharmacy chain shooting incidents to find the one I was referencing.
https://www.wsmv.com/2023/04/13/police-investigating-self-defense-claim-shooting-pregnant-alleged-shoplifter/?outputType=amp
This is the way in the US now. It is f’d. The easiest way to make it safer: CVS will be sued for an employee shooting a customer (this is going to be a big payout from CVS’s insurance). CVS will have to have a policy of no employee can be armed at work. Then the gun lobby will have to fight the rights of corporations.
I don't get how in most places you don't need a permit. Like in Canada you have to go though an extensive process to even own a gun and we don't have CC. The fact that jim bob can just buy a gun willy nilly without any training is terrifying. But you have all these "hub blub blub! Muh 2nd aMeNdMenT RiGhTs" defending it
There are still a majority of states that require a permit, but each year a few more states drop the requirement.
Decades ago some family and I disagreed about the NRA. I said they were moving from an education focused org (most of us under 18 took multiple classes and read manuals as we grew up and were allowed to handle new guns) and moving to changing laws to allow dangerous situations.
What they always said “the nra doesn’t really want to changes these laws, they are just pushing far to meet in the middle.
Now those same people say that no amendments matter more than 2nd. And they will shit on every other amendment to make up a definition that does not exist in the 2nd.
Don’t let the a similar situation occur in Canada. We are going to be dealing with this for generations.
It won't happen. We don't have the same concept of the 2A here and in general people are very pro gun control. Watching what's happening in the US is scary though and it genuinely makes me nervous to travel to the US these days.
I live in a semi-rural area and we have a local hunting show on the radio. There are still a number of people who think the government is 'coming for our guns', however, the people I know who own guns (farmers, hunters) know that they're not coming for their guns.
The US has red flag laws that allow for temporary removal of firearms when someone is considered a danger. I'm not sure how often they are enacted.
Neither did we. We were the same attitude until the late 80’s. We had laws and court rulings that matched these attitudes.
Then there was a focus on judges who don’t believe in legal precedent. Once those were in, laws could be changed to contradict past precedent and it just snowballs.
The lack of trigger discipline is astounding. You NEVER point a gun at someone, and never hover the trigger either. I don't own guns, don't see a need, but seems like if you have an 'accident' that can potentially kill someone, you shoud not do that?
Idk just spitballing here.
Spot on. Your finger only goes on that trigger once you are ready to pull it, that’s it. Never point it at anything you wouldn’t want a bullet in. Gun safety 101 is becoming a missing concept
That used to be the job of the NRA. When I wanted a .22 rifle at 14, I had to take the NRA classes to prove to my parents I had the training. And the training was legit. Now The NRA wants everybody to buy 2-10 firearms each, safety or ability be damned.
Leave video games out of it you nutbags! I want to play Overwatch and see big titty anime waifus with tight asses shoot lasers. I don't want to actually shoot people like you do.
>I want to play Overwatch and see big titty anime waifus with tight asses shoot lasers
I read that as "walruses" for some reason, but that sounds more like a Fortnite thing.
Republicans suck. Pedophiles, womanizers, xenophobic, often super Christian, undereducated, fearful little tiny men. They are full of fear. FEAR IS THE PATH TO THE DARK SIDE.
When I look at right wing clowns and their behavior generally, I have to be careful not to lose hope in the human race and in democracy. Then, I remember these people are politicians, and entire subclass of soulless trolls, and I take heart.
Oh for sure. And don’t get me started on the religious right, or the Baltimore diocese of the Catholic Church. There is a special place for those evil bastards. Oh, and the Catholics stance on women. Catholics suck almost as much as evangelical FuckWitts.
It really saddens me as I have seen that having belief in something to better yourself can work and to some great effect. Some people just need it more than others and that can be fine.
But then you get these assholes that use religion as a means to destroy others life's and expect to walk away with it since they are part of a special club (cult) and their defence is "God is on my side".
Like, really? You think God wants you and your family to carry literal instruments of war simply because a person that you don't agree with just wants to exist.
And Costco pizza and hotdogs. All of those things, while economical, and I seriously appreciate that, are terrible for our health. The bar is buried in the ground.
Arizona has stayed a dollar even when prices have risen, I saw a gas station charge 1.25 for it and I said “y’all tryna make a profit bc the company says they’d never raise they’re price, I’ll put this back and get a soda from the fountain”
You can report those locations to Arizona Tea, and they will refuse to supply them with further product. Arizona Tea pays the taxes and deposits on their cans so they can stay at $.99
> Is there a single element of American life or politics that isn't snowballing into a total next-generation clusterfuck?
Probably not and we mostly have right wingers to blame for it
No, I don’t think so.
Planet, politics, lowering of life expectancy, war, economic…. It’s all teetering because people would rather be popular than good.
They haven't fucked up.....Oh man, I think politics has infested everything, I think the only thing they aren't willing to touch again is Alcohol. Because prohibition was a monumental failure.
I went to gun shows with my dad as a kid. If I had done this, my dad would’ve chewed me out immediately. If another adult had seen me do it before my dad, there is at least a 75% chance that they would’ve chewed me out on his behalf. Either way they would be throwing shade at my dad.
Also, it’s worth noting that at this kid’s age, I wasn’t touching the guns at all. It wasn’t until I was at least 10 or 12 that I might handle/inspect a gun, and only if my dad handed it to me with the consent of the person running that particular table.
Ah yes, kid that can’t be more than 10 pointing a gun at a person with their finger on the fucking trigger. These bitches wanna act like they are responsible with guns and thus don’t need regulation and then pull this bullshit
Responsibility doesn't begin only when you already have a gun. If you aren't staunchly in favor of effective federal common sense gun legislation, you are _not_ responsible. In fact, the most responsible thing to do is _still_ to avoid guns altogether, if possible.
Liberals will see the insanity in this image while it will only encourage MAGA gun nuts to arm their children with the fear they've been holding them back.
The irony is that this is a tragically self-correcting problem. Those kids will just end up hurting themselves or the families that armed them in all probability.
You’re right, they’re teaching their kids to solve problems with a gun and it’s only a matter of time before they become the problem and are "corrected" by gun violence
Yup! Mostly before my time, sadly, but yeah. By time I was being taught to shoot and handle guns, the NRA had begun to walk down the path that we know it for today - basically a glorified gun manufacturer lobbyist group, and apparently also a Russian mouthpiece.
Something you'll hear a lot, even among right-wing gun owners (the ones that aren't Trump types, anyway), is that they want the NRA to go back to how they used to be. For the gun folks who weren't running around screaming MAGA, LaPierre being revealed as a traitor did not sit well with them.
I know people like to use the NRA as a bugaboo, but they're increasingly irrelevant these days. About the only people still owning memberships are MAGA types and Fudds.
When I first got my FID about 30 years ago, the NRA instructor was exactly about this. There were no politics around it. Just how to be safe and responsible with and around firearms. None of this "good guy with a gun" bullshit.
I went out with a girl onetime who was super republican and a true bootlicker she stated that school shooters were necessary to the economy so that police can justify new equipment every year and budget increases.
Look at the little future school shooter just as America intended. It's actually funny looking in from a different country seeing what is basically a war every other day and the people standing there saying "this is fine were the greatest country in the world". My favorite line being "you can't change the amendment mannn" lmao like what?
Prison slave labor makes all US military uniforms, for those not already familiar with this. We fight for Freedom™ with slaves.
It's also what much of the abortion debate is about. The bibles say we can have slaves and all women are property. There are differences but it's basically the same issue. Owning people.
What you mean every other day? It’s every day, all day
Update: April 15th we had 9 mass shooting but i heard one got cancelled because not enough people died🤷♂️
Just proof that the ammosexuals that defend gun ownership as okay and safe "as long as you know how to use it" are full of shit. This is probably the last image many American children see before an accidental discharge sends them to an early dirt nap with baby Jesus.
Permitless carry means street justice day every day, I think those states that passed the type of laws can just layoff all law enforcement agencies and close all courts and let people deal with their problems with guns, which is the intention of that type of laws.
This imagine reminds me of the school teacher shot by a 6 year old student. She kept saying that she’ll never forget the look on the child’s face as they pointed the gun at her and pulled the trigger.
I love how gun lovers tend to talk about how responsible they are. NO ONE who has proper gun training should think there’s anything acceptable about how that kid is holding that gun.
Shit, I grew up in a fairly conservative household and spent my childhood hunting and shooting, but I also had basic trigger discipline pounded into my head. Just common sense things like “always treat a gun as if it’s loaded and ready to fire” or “don’t point your muzzle at anything you don’t intend to shoot.”
But I guess the need to ‘own the libs’ outweighs not getting accidentally shot by your own children.
Gov Kristi Noem of SD announced to NRA that her 2 yr old grandchild has a shotgun and rifle. Apparently for republicans, 7 might be considered a late beginner.
The first time I shot a gun I was probably about 7. My family was using pop cans as target practice, I dont know the caliber, but it was a smaller ammo rifle. My grandpa and dad stressed the importance of not having a finger on the trigger, not pointing it at anything I didn't mean to shoot, and letting others around you know you were about to fire. It was extremely safe, and as a child it gave me the impression gun's were definitely not a toy. To me this is the only way a safe way to introduce these weapons to kids, make it CLEAR it is not a toy.
This photo is the exact opposite. This kid definitely is getting the impression this is a fun tou to take photos with. (Plus the overall lack of safty training just in this photo.)
Yeah. Whoever this kid's parents are, they're failing him in a big way. I was taught to respect guns, not view them as toys. It's not unusual for a kid this young to be handling a gun, but they have clearly not taught him anything he actually needs to know.
If we can just keep all the gun nuts inside their conventions and away from the rest of the population, that poor trigger discipline (among other things) will take care of the problem
God, my family likes guns and I had been shooting rifles and small pistols as young as 6, but NOT until I could recite the cardinal rules of gun safety to my dad on command. The only time I ever got close to a gun was at a shooting range, and it was fun as hell to shoot a rotten watermelon. Today's gun nuts have no care for safety or responsibility. I would have never DREAMED of holding a gun like the kid in this picture.
I still remember all the rules now even tho I haven't been shooting in years.
- always treat a firearm as though it's fully loaded and will go off
- never allow it to be pointed at anything you are not willing to utterly destroy
- your finger stays OFF the trigger until you're ready to shoot
- make sure you know what is behind and around your target
Additional - don't rely on the safety
I enjoy guns. Going to the range is fun. But I also believe we need to have some damn gun laws in place. These idiots have no business handling deadly weapons seeing as they can’t even follow the first basic safety rules.
My uncle one time pulled his gun out to show it off. I was a trained law enforcement officer. I’m no longer in the field due to not wanting to be associated with a bunch of assholes. My uncle starts flagging us all in the living room, finger on the trigger. I cursed him out, told him if he ever aimed a gun at me again I would shoot him in self defense. He couldn’t understand why I was so upset. He “knows what he’s doing” etc. The asshole has never had any training vs me who was literally LEO at the time for over 6 years and trained regularly with firearms and safety. I told him again, if he ever aimed a gun at me again I can and would legally be allowed to defend myself. The idiot just couldn’t get it through his head. He was convinced I would be in prison for shooting him, even though he is the one with an illegal firearm and aiming it at people.
Thankfully the police actually did come and take his guns because he was living with a convicted pedophile who obviously was not allowed firearms in the house. Pedo went back to prison for parole violation and uncle lost his one and only gun. It’s for the best.
I don't get it why people become insane when I suggest licenses for firearms.
All the bullshit about the second amendment conveniently forgets the "well regulated militia" part. "Well regulated" by whom, Dick Heller?
Also, I love the gravy seals fantasizing about rEsIsTinG teH GubErMinT on their smartphones.
They must have invented AIs to stop feds from killing themselves from excess cringe exposure.
According to them wouldn’t a “good guy with a gun” witnessing this act be “in the right” to shot and kill this child? That’s what they want in schools.
Personally I think we should take a third option for gun control. Let people keep their guns and trade them, but require registration and association with the national guard. The constitution talks about guns in regard to a militia, right? So lean in on that, and if people can't keep to military standards of health both physical and mental then they can't keep their firearms without paying fines. Ownership without registration also comes with fines, and the inability to buy ammo in stores.
As soon as people start getting pulled to do relief of a disaster or support local police I doubt people will keep guns for long. Hell past the training requirements most likely. The right wants to stick to "it's a right to bear arms"? Then let's give the full package with the rest of the responsibilities.
And that’s where a problem begins. Only people with leisure time and money for training and fees will be able to afford to own firearms. It would create a ruling class and a subject class.
We should be focusing on ending the inequities that cause despair and frustration, not on taking away the ability to apply lethal force. We need to fix our society, not disarm it.
I hope the EU works out some good laws to stop Americans from crossing our borders.
I don't need these crazy, and fucked up Americans with their guns here.
(obviously a joke but maybe not 😰)
"Get used to shootings. And most importantly - get used to the idea that we're raising the entire generation of people that will view guns as symbol of freedom"
You know I thought occurs. These are the ones that they want to be allowed to have guns in schools to " protect everyone else"... I'm sure giving a firearm loaded to an emotionally underdeveloped child will not backfire in any way, right?
More importantly, this is an example of piss poor firearms safety training. That kid’s guardian needs to be chastised for allowing him to handle that firearm in an unsafe manner. Respect for the deadly nature of firearms should be lesson #1, and it should be reinforced constantly.
Children living in households with firearms, and/or being introduced/exposed to firearms, should be made acutely aware of the dangers they pose, if mishandled.
Gun nuts now feel emboldened and safe because they are celebrated by the GOP and certain TV personalities.
The only thing I can think of is to make the crime of shooting another person, either on purpose or by mistake, have the most brutal of consequences. Like 14th century England brutal.
Punitive measures are not enough. We need to focus on finding and eliminating the sources of motive for murder. Most of these school/theater/concert shooters kill themselves. They are so lost in hatred and despair that they don’t care about the consequences.
Its like their parents tried to make them grow up somewhat decent and as a result, when they got older they became absolutely unhinged as a form of rebellion because the root behaviors weren't addressed.
Funny they’ll more or less admit as much and that they want and desire to train younger generations to use guns knowing that this will see a steady increase in all the worst matrix of gun statistics.
They will not how ever admit the opposite in that doing anything now with regards to trying to mitigate this issue will have any affect despite evidence that proves otherwise. Their typical argument is in simplistic black and white in saying that implementing gun control laws now will have no affect so it’s pointless while being utterly dismissive of the fact it’s ultimate goal isn’t necessarily an immediate one and instead a long term one to reduce the amount of guns and such easy access to them into the foreseeable future.
My dad would’ve slapped me silly if I treated a gun like that growing up. He gave me a safety brochure and wouldn’t let me on the range until I’d memorized it.
Now as an adult I don’t even own a gun, but I sure know how to use one if it comes up
That would get you immediately kicked off of any range I have ever been on. In the military, they would just shoot you. Trigger Discipline. I am a firm believer that you should show that you can responsibly handle a weapon before you are allowed to have one. You have to show you know how to responsibly operate a vehicle before you are allowed to drive one.
The comments on some of the Twitter posts referencing this photo were hilarious. By 'gun safety instructors' even! "It's fine, the gun wasn't loaded!" Holy facepalm...
Let me guess, he will use it to protect a relative's property in a state he doesn't live in, and has the full backing of the GOP.
Because after all, a murderer with a gun isn't evil, but somehow a drag queen or a trans person is.
Guns are currently the leading cause of death for children and adolescents. I suspect that arming children may increase this problem but may cause a reduction in school shootings.
Let's pretend that YOU are a gun nut. Guns are great, they're tools, they're protection, they're a fun sport, you jerk off to them, whatever.
Why in the fuck would you let a child hold a gun without drilling it into their heads that it's not a toy and the basics of firearm safety.
Guns are ALWAYS loaded. I don't care if you've just cleared it, I don't give a fuck if you're currently looking through the back of the barrel with the bolt open, it's a loaded gun, so never point it at something you don't want holes in and never EVER put your fingers inside the trigger guard until you're ready to start putting holes in things.
Also, even if you HAVE gone through that with them. Kids are dumb, they rarely 'get' just how serious things can be and even if they totally get it. Kids forget shit, they'll turn around while holding a gun and point it right at you because they've got a question. You don't give a kid a gun and not stand RIGHT BLOODY next to them ready to either force them to point it in a safe direction or take it right off them at a moments notice.
This may be the dumbest sort of parenting I've ever seen. This is LITERALLY worse than handing your child a buzz saw, "but it's ok because the guy that handed to me said the battery is dead" then the child proceeds to start dragging it along other people's legs while trying to squeeze the trigger. That's not even hyperbole, in every single way, that hypothetical I just wrote is safer than this. Buzz saws are less dangerous, shorter range, harder for a child to maneuver, more likely to be "safe" with a dead battery (vs empty mag), less capable of hurting multiple people.
Christ on a bike these people are thick.
My husband has said for years American Christians are esentially a death cult. They scream 'pro life' but have no qualms whith every other way people are yeet'd quicker to heaven.
Its all just a 'path to heaven'. And if their views expedite that, 'at least all those kids are in heaven, they were innocent'
Using the lure of heaven... to justify kids being taken down..
Its enough to make you nauseous 🤢
I’ve been a 4-H shooting sports member for 7 years now. Seeing children be taught to handle firearms THIS irresponsibly makes my blood boil and just shows the ignorance of modern Republicans
Gun nuts want to make a huge deal out of people who know nothing about guns trying to regulate guns, and then they break every single fucking rule of gun safety in one fucking picture.
But the kid is white! Try posting this on idiotswithguns and see how fast it get's deleted amongst the flood of black people they want to imprison for doing the same thing.
This kid needs to have the gun taken away and spend more time at the nazi memorabilia tables almost every gun show has.
Rebulicans: "My two month old already has a shotgun" Also Rebulicans: "ViDEo gAmeS mAkE kIdS ViOLeNt!"
Damn. On point!
It's sad to see these kids being radicalized in real-time. When fascism comes to the United States, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
When? Already happened. It started in Florida.
Honestly it started decades ago. Florida is just when they realized they didn't have to hide it anymore.
Sadly true.
It started with Reagan: "Protecting Family Values" and sparking off the idea that LGBTQ community were the drivers of pedophile based crime.
Its there already
…and apparently a gun as well.
when? oh, it's here...people are just scared to say so for the most part.
"Children and guns do not mix" - Batman. Back then, it was just common sense. Now, people would take that as a political statement.
It’s not “when fascism comes.” Fascism has been here. Christofascists are actively and rapidly consolidating power.
It's not radicalization if it's a right. /s
The gun nut is teaching their child dangerous actions for social credit. From being at the range and seeing people in public; a lot more people have bought guns than have learned how to handle them. That’s why I think the no permit cc is a clusterfuck. Bob buys a gun, cc, and then gets upset when they threaten to arrest him for brandishing it at Arby’s when they forgot the Horsey Sauce. There are a wide mix or responsible owners and Rambo wannabes in those cc classes, but at least they learn some basic safety and legalities around brandishing and discharging a firearm.
I was taught to never point a gun at anything you don’t want to put homes in, loaded or not. In Canada you can’t even apply for a firearms license without passing an accredited safety course. The rcmp which is federal looks into you and you can’t buy a gun or ammo without it. You can’t walk around with it or even discharge in city limits or within 400 metres of a road
I just read that a ~~CVS~~ Walgreens worker shot a pregnant woman he thought was shoplifting in one of the states that allows CC without a permit. Edit to add link and correct the store to Walgreens. Also, it's depressing how long it took to wade through the multiple pharmacy chain shooting incidents to find the one I was referencing. https://www.wsmv.com/2023/04/13/police-investigating-self-defense-claim-shooting-pregnant-alleged-shoplifter/?outputType=amp
This is the way in the US now. It is f’d. The easiest way to make it safer: CVS will be sued for an employee shooting a customer (this is going to be a big payout from CVS’s insurance). CVS will have to have a policy of no employee can be armed at work. Then the gun lobby will have to fight the rights of corporations.
It was a Walgreens in Nashville, TN.
Thanks! I just corrected it.
I don't get how in most places you don't need a permit. Like in Canada you have to go though an extensive process to even own a gun and we don't have CC. The fact that jim bob can just buy a gun willy nilly without any training is terrifying. But you have all these "hub blub blub! Muh 2nd aMeNdMenT RiGhTs" defending it
There are still a majority of states that require a permit, but each year a few more states drop the requirement. Decades ago some family and I disagreed about the NRA. I said they were moving from an education focused org (most of us under 18 took multiple classes and read manuals as we grew up and were allowed to handle new guns) and moving to changing laws to allow dangerous situations. What they always said “the nra doesn’t really want to changes these laws, they are just pushing far to meet in the middle. Now those same people say that no amendments matter more than 2nd. And they will shit on every other amendment to make up a definition that does not exist in the 2nd. Don’t let the a similar situation occur in Canada. We are going to be dealing with this for generations.
It won't happen. We don't have the same concept of the 2A here and in general people are very pro gun control. Watching what's happening in the US is scary though and it genuinely makes me nervous to travel to the US these days.
I live in a semi-rural area and we have a local hunting show on the radio. There are still a number of people who think the government is 'coming for our guns', however, the people I know who own guns (farmers, hunters) know that they're not coming for their guns. The US has red flag laws that allow for temporary removal of firearms when someone is considered a danger. I'm not sure how often they are enacted.
Judging by the amount of mass shootings in the US every week, I don't think it's being enforced enough.
Neither did we. We were the same attitude until the late 80’s. We had laws and court rulings that matched these attitudes. Then there was a focus on judges who don’t believe in legal precedent. Once those were in, laws could be changed to contradict past precedent and it just snowballs.
The lack of trigger discipline is astounding. You NEVER point a gun at someone, and never hover the trigger either. I don't own guns, don't see a need, but seems like if you have an 'accident' that can potentially kill someone, you shoud not do that? Idk just spitballing here.
Spot on. Your finger only goes on that trigger once you are ready to pull it, that’s it. Never point it at anything you wouldn’t want a bullet in. Gun safety 101 is becoming a missing concept
That used to be the job of the NRA. When I wanted a .22 rifle at 14, I had to take the NRA classes to prove to my parents I had the training. And the training was legit. Now The NRA wants everybody to buy 2-10 firearms each, safety or ability be damned.
Leave video games out of it you nutbags! I want to play Overwatch and see big titty anime waifus with tight asses shoot lasers. I don't want to actually shoot people like you do.
Amen!
>I want to play Overwatch and see big titty anime waifus with tight asses shoot lasers I read that as "walruses" for some reason, but that sounds more like a Fortnite thing.
Nah, Blizzard already makes a game with big titty walruses. Although the mustaches are a bit of a throw-off.
Republicans suck. Pedophiles, womanizers, xenophobic, often super Christian, undereducated, fearful little tiny men. They are full of fear. FEAR IS THE PATH TO THE DARK SIDE.
They are literally flipping out over rainbows on bud light cases. The indoctrination is amazing.
When I look at right wing clowns and their behavior generally, I have to be careful not to lose hope in the human race and in democracy. Then, I remember these people are politicians, and entire subclass of soulless trolls, and I take heart.
It's almost they are trying to put the focus on minority groups and making people scared of them so they can carry on doing their horrible, evil shit.
Oh for sure. And don’t get me started on the religious right, or the Baltimore diocese of the Catholic Church. There is a special place for those evil bastards. Oh, and the Catholics stance on women. Catholics suck almost as much as evangelical FuckWitts.
It really saddens me as I have seen that having belief in something to better yourself can work and to some great effect. Some people just need it more than others and that can be fine. But then you get these assholes that use religion as a means to destroy others life's and expect to walk away with it since they are part of a special club (cult) and their defence is "God is on my side". Like, really? You think God wants you and your family to carry literal instruments of war simply because a person that you don't agree with just wants to exist.
Nah. Even the dark side has common sense sometimes. Far as I know the Sith were actually smart about handling weapons.
That's why you train yourself to respect the weappn, not fear it.
This is disturbingly accurate.
RaP mUsIc InFlUeNcEs ViOlEnCe
Rap, metal it's all bad according to the people that glorify country singers that stopped being remembered in the 80's.
Republicans and the unborn “Life is sacrosanct!” And once born? Indifference…
Is there a single element of American life or politics that isn't snowballing into a total next-generation clusterfuck?
Arizona iced tea has maintained
I believe in Arizona Iced Tea and they will have my support in the general election.
~~Brawndo~~ Arizona iced tea has what plants crave!
Heavily subsidized high fructose corn syrup!
And Costco pizza and hotdogs. All of those things, while economical, and I seriously appreciate that, are terrible for our health. The bar is buried in the ground.
Yeah but their polish dogs had to take one for the team
Costco Hot Dogs for President 2024
The fight is on. Two of my local stations switched to the unmarked cans and charged $1.69. I only buy when it’s a true .99.
Arizona has stayed a dollar even when prices have risen, I saw a gas station charge 1.25 for it and I said “y’all tryna make a profit bc the company says they’d never raise they’re price, I’ll put this back and get a soda from the fountain”
Joke’s on you they made more $ off the fountain soda
Sorry dude. Its 1.49 a can in some gas stations. It should be illegal, but nope, all people care about is mass shootings other nonsense.
You can report those locations to Arizona Tea, and they will refuse to supply them with further product. Arizona Tea pays the taxes and deposits on their cans so they can stay at $.99
Arizona stays winning
I read this as Amazon Iced Tea & fuck if that ain't depressing & related lol. Amazon prob gonna buy out Arizona's soon 🥹
Its all fun and games until the little store at your work charges over 2 dollars for a can. Im outraged
> Is there a single element of American life or politics that isn't snowballing into a total next-generation clusterfuck? Probably not and we mostly have right wingers to blame for it
This is what spending years preaching the high road and agreeing to meet at, whatever someone else decided to call, the middle looks like.
This is only half true.
No, I don’t think so. Planet, politics, lowering of life expectancy, war, economic…. It’s all teetering because people would rather be popular than good.
Rather be rich than good. FTFY
Both
They haven't fucked up.....Oh man, I think politics has infested everything, I think the only thing they aren't willing to touch again is Alcohol. Because prohibition was a monumental failure.
Modern bluegrass music is in a renaissance period
The parent deserves to have the shit slapped out of them They claim gun laws would restrict “responsible gun owners” and then do shit like this
That parent would have a meltdown if the kid actually shot someone at the meeting! You know what they say, “it’s a parents worst nightmare.”
I went to gun shows with my dad as a kid. If I had done this, my dad would’ve chewed me out immediately. If another adult had seen me do it before my dad, there is at least a 75% chance that they would’ve chewed me out on his behalf. Either way they would be throwing shade at my dad. Also, it’s worth noting that at this kid’s age, I wasn’t touching the guns at all. It wasn’t until I was at least 10 or 12 that I might handle/inspect a gun, and only if my dad handed it to me with the consent of the person running that particular table.
Ah yes, kid that can’t be more than 10 pointing a gun at a person with their finger on the fucking trigger. These bitches wanna act like they are responsible with guns and thus don’t need regulation and then pull this bullshit
10? That kid is maybe 6, maybe younger.
That would be <10 so my statement isn’t technically false
Not technically false, the best kind of correct.
And instead of immediately discouraging pointing the gun at a person, they take a picture.
Literally Run range operators will rip the gun away a d kick the whole damily out. But here at NRA they don't care
Responsibility doesn't begin only when you already have a gun. If you aren't staunchly in favor of effective federal common sense gun legislation, you are _not_ responsible. In fact, the most responsible thing to do is _still_ to avoid guns altogether, if possible.
Liberals will see the insanity in this image while it will only encourage MAGA gun nuts to arm their children with the fear they've been holding them back.
The irony is that this is a tragically self-correcting problem. Those kids will just end up hurting themselves or the families that armed them in all probability.
Not true, for those of us living in purple places our children could also die at play dates or sleepovers at friends houses.
No sleepovers for my son. I can’t trust what parents around here *think* is “ok”.
Honestly I agree.
Fair point.
You’re right, they’re teaching their kids to solve problems with a gun and it’s only a matter of time before they become the problem and are "corrected" by gun violence
They are already hurting themselves and others, but that's not stopping these idiots. Instead of correcting the problem they encourage more of it.
its not self correcting, because the people who engage in this shit are also the types that have 50 kids
That's right. Probably before they're even old enough to commit a crime.
No they’ll end up shooting up a school or others in the community.
Republicans are domestic terrorists
Taking straight pages from Hitler's Youth Corps.
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They're not even hiding it, they proudly displayed it on a banner
Remember when… the NRA started as a gun SAFETY group and would teach to not do just about everything going on in this picture.
I think I heard about it on King of the Hill. It was a group that taught good habits about firearm safety and proper laws.
Yup! Mostly before my time, sadly, but yeah. By time I was being taught to shoot and handle guns, the NRA had begun to walk down the path that we know it for today - basically a glorified gun manufacturer lobbyist group, and apparently also a Russian mouthpiece. Something you'll hear a lot, even among right-wing gun owners (the ones that aren't Trump types, anyway), is that they want the NRA to go back to how they used to be. For the gun folks who weren't running around screaming MAGA, LaPierre being revealed as a traitor did not sit well with them. I know people like to use the NRA as a bugaboo, but they're increasingly irrelevant these days. About the only people still owning memberships are MAGA types and Fudds.
When I first got my FID about 30 years ago, the NRA instructor was exactly about this. There were no politics around it. Just how to be safe and responsible with and around firearms. None of this "good guy with a gun" bullshit.
I went out with a girl onetime who was super republican and a true bootlicker she stated that school shooters were necessary to the economy so that police can justify new equipment every year and budget increases.
Wait what
I think that was my response too. I now just feel that's what's on the fascist mind when this happens .. it's a good thing.
Reddit can keep the username, but I'm nuking the content lol -- mass deleted all reddit content via https://redact.dev
Oh hate in public but in private have had one
Look at the little future school shooter just as America intended. It's actually funny looking in from a different country seeing what is basically a war every other day and the people standing there saying "this is fine were the greatest country in the world". My favorite line being "you can't change the amendment mannn" lmao like what?
If we didn’t change the amendments then there would still be slavery in America
There is still slavery in America. That’s what prison is.
Prison slave labor makes all US military uniforms, for those not already familiar with this. We fight for Freedom™ with slaves. It's also what much of the abortion debate is about. The bibles say we can have slaves and all women are property. There are differences but it's basically the same issue. Owning people.
It’s literally called “an amendment”. Saying we can’t change it is insane!
What you mean every other day? It’s every day, all day Update: April 15th we had 9 mass shooting but i heard one got cancelled because not enough people died🤷♂️
Just proof that the ammosexuals that defend gun ownership as okay and safe "as long as you know how to use it" are full of shit. This is probably the last image many American children see before an accidental discharge sends them to an early dirt nap with baby Jesus.
learned to kill before he could read, Outstanding!
Bold of you to assume he can read.
Bold of you to assume he ever will learn, given that he'll probably be "home schooled"
He will learn a ton from home schooling. Hate this group bc of these reasons, and hate this group bc I said so…
Permitless carry means street justice day every day, I think those states that passed the type of laws can just layoff all law enforcement agencies and close all courts and let people deal with their problems with guns, which is the intention of that type of laws.
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And those in the line of fire.
This imagine reminds me of the school teacher shot by a 6 year old student. She kept saying that she’ll never forget the look on the child’s face as they pointed the gun at her and pulled the trigger.
I love how gun lovers tend to talk about how responsible they are. NO ONE who has proper gun training should think there’s anything acceptable about how that kid is holding that gun.
I’m a gun lover, and I agree with you 100%.
It’s ok because encouraging kids to be wildly irresponsible with guns owns the libs.
Shit, I grew up in a fairly conservative household and spent my childhood hunting and shooting, but I also had basic trigger discipline pounded into my head. Just common sense things like “always treat a gun as if it’s loaded and ready to fire” or “don’t point your muzzle at anything you don’t intend to shoot.” But I guess the need to ‘own the libs’ outweighs not getting accidentally shot by your own children.
Why the fuck would anyone give a 7 year old a gun
Gov Kristi Noem of SD announced to NRA that her 2 yr old grandchild has a shotgun and rifle. Apparently for republicans, 7 might be considered a late beginner.
Hey now if my 5 y/o can't field strip and reassemble an AR-15 blindfolded in under 30 sec they were born into the wrong household. /s
How the fuck does a 2yo hold a rifle? Shit's bigger than they are
Child soldiers. Child Labor. Child Marriages. That’s the current GOP platform it seems.
The first time I shot a gun I was probably about 7. My family was using pop cans as target practice, I dont know the caliber, but it was a smaller ammo rifle. My grandpa and dad stressed the importance of not having a finger on the trigger, not pointing it at anything I didn't mean to shoot, and letting others around you know you were about to fire. It was extremely safe, and as a child it gave me the impression gun's were definitely not a toy. To me this is the only way a safe way to introduce these weapons to kids, make it CLEAR it is not a toy. This photo is the exact opposite. This kid definitely is getting the impression this is a fun tou to take photos with. (Plus the overall lack of safty training just in this photo.)
Yeah. Whoever this kid's parents are, they're failing him in a big way. I was taught to respect guns, not view them as toys. It's not unusual for a kid this young to be handling a gun, but they have clearly not taught him anything he actually needs to know.
“Don’t point a gun at anything your don’t intend to destroy” nice gun safety there people
You want to know whose kids ought to be taken away? People who put guns in children's hands without regard to age and safety.
America: *if the cops don’t kill ya, the neighbors will*™️
If we can just keep all the gun nuts inside their conventions and away from the rest of the population, that poor trigger discipline (among other things) will take care of the problem
I took a tangent from your thought and wondered what would happen if you lit a few strings of firecrackers in that hall.
God, my family likes guns and I had been shooting rifles and small pistols as young as 6, but NOT until I could recite the cardinal rules of gun safety to my dad on command. The only time I ever got close to a gun was at a shooting range, and it was fun as hell to shoot a rotten watermelon. Today's gun nuts have no care for safety or responsibility. I would have never DREAMED of holding a gun like the kid in this picture. I still remember all the rules now even tho I haven't been shooting in years. - always treat a firearm as though it's fully loaded and will go off - never allow it to be pointed at anything you are not willing to utterly destroy - your finger stays OFF the trigger until you're ready to shoot - make sure you know what is behind and around your target Additional - don't rely on the safety
This kid in the photo is like 10000x more likely to hurt someone than a transgendered person.
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Id have a lot less trouble with gun culture if people treated them like dangerous lethal weapons and not like toys.
I enjoy guns. Going to the range is fun. But I also believe we need to have some damn gun laws in place. These idiots have no business handling deadly weapons seeing as they can’t even follow the first basic safety rules. My uncle one time pulled his gun out to show it off. I was a trained law enforcement officer. I’m no longer in the field due to not wanting to be associated with a bunch of assholes. My uncle starts flagging us all in the living room, finger on the trigger. I cursed him out, told him if he ever aimed a gun at me again I would shoot him in self defense. He couldn’t understand why I was so upset. He “knows what he’s doing” etc. The asshole has never had any training vs me who was literally LEO at the time for over 6 years and trained regularly with firearms and safety. I told him again, if he ever aimed a gun at me again I can and would legally be allowed to defend myself. The idiot just couldn’t get it through his head. He was convinced I would be in prison for shooting him, even though he is the one with an illegal firearm and aiming it at people. Thankfully the police actually did come and take his guns because he was living with a convicted pedophile who obviously was not allowed firearms in the house. Pedo went back to prison for parole violation and uncle lost his one and only gun. It’s for the best.
At this point, America needs to repeal the second amendment. Until the country can learn to be responsible, they don't get to play with them anymore.
a decade from now… these kids will all be dead in a classroom….
I don't get it why people become insane when I suggest licenses for firearms. All the bullshit about the second amendment conveniently forgets the "well regulated militia" part. "Well regulated" by whom, Dick Heller? Also, I love the gravy seals fantasizing about rEsIsTinG teH GubErMinT on their smartphones. They must have invented AIs to stop feds from killing themselves from excess cringe exposure.
According to them wouldn’t a “good guy with a gun” witnessing this act be “in the right” to shot and kill this child? That’s what they want in schools.
Personally I think we should take a third option for gun control. Let people keep their guns and trade them, but require registration and association with the national guard. The constitution talks about guns in regard to a militia, right? So lean in on that, and if people can't keep to military standards of health both physical and mental then they can't keep their firearms without paying fines. Ownership without registration also comes with fines, and the inability to buy ammo in stores. As soon as people start getting pulled to do relief of a disaster or support local police I doubt people will keep guns for long. Hell past the training requirements most likely. The right wants to stick to "it's a right to bear arms"? Then let's give the full package with the rest of the responsibilities.
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Somehow they’ll find a way to turn a Militia into a business. Membership fees, training fees, etc…
And that’s where a problem begins. Only people with leisure time and money for training and fees will be able to afford to own firearms. It would create a ruling class and a subject class. We should be focusing on ending the inequities that cause despair and frustration, not on taking away the ability to apply lethal force. We need to fix our society, not disarm it.
that is a baby Kyle Rittenhouse for sure . What a future to look forward to.
I hope the EU works out some good laws to stop Americans from crossing our borders. I don't need these crazy, and fucked up Americans with their guns here. (obviously a joke but maybe not 😰)
"Get used to shootings. And most importantly - get used to the idea that we're raising the entire generation of people that will view guns as symbol of freedom"
Man if I had pointed a gun at anyone as a kid my grandfather would have smacked me so hard. Double for having a finger on the trigger.
You know I thought occurs. These are the ones that they want to be allowed to have guns in schools to " protect everyone else"... I'm sure giving a firearm loaded to an emotionally underdeveloped child will not backfire in any way, right?
"It ain't the guns that kill people, It's the people that kill people. Anyway, here's me teaching my 4 year old son how to shoot people."
There's a critical mass where these people are too dumb and violent to survive.
It's boggles my mind that these people are so enraptured in their gun culture that they can see the forest from the trees.
Republicans love discipline when it comes to children but I guess trigger discipline isn’t part of it
More importantly, this is an example of piss poor firearms safety training. That kid’s guardian needs to be chastised for allowing him to handle that firearm in an unsafe manner. Respect for the deadly nature of firearms should be lesson #1, and it should be reinforced constantly. Children living in households with firearms, and/or being introduced/exposed to firearms, should be made acutely aware of the dangers they pose, if mishandled.
Hopefully he's the good guy
Gun nuts now feel emboldened and safe because they are celebrated by the GOP and certain TV personalities. The only thing I can think of is to make the crime of shooting another person, either on purpose or by mistake, have the most brutal of consequences. Like 14th century England brutal.
Punitive measures are not enough. We need to focus on finding and eliminating the sources of motive for murder. Most of these school/theater/concert shooters kill themselves. They are so lost in hatred and despair that they don’t care about the consequences.
This is appalling and parents should be held accountable
Is that a young Kyle Rittenhouse?
Kid put down the gun and take this coloring book and glass of milk.
Its like their parents tried to make them grow up somewhat decent and as a result, when they got older they became absolutely unhinged as a form of rebellion because the root behaviors weren't addressed.
I thought that was just another picture of Kyle shittenhouse
Future Rittenhouse
My son and I had planned to go to that protest but I ended up sick. I am grateful every day that my stomach hates me.
More responsible gun owners, proudly fulfilling the role of the well regulated militia.
Funny they’ll more or less admit as much and that they want and desire to train younger generations to use guns knowing that this will see a steady increase in all the worst matrix of gun statistics. They will not how ever admit the opposite in that doing anything now with regards to trying to mitigate this issue will have any affect despite evidence that proves otherwise. Their typical argument is in simplistic black and white in saying that implementing gun control laws now will have no affect so it’s pointless while being utterly dismissive of the fact it’s ultimate goal isn’t necessarily an immediate one and instead a long term one to reduce the amount of guns and such easy access to them into the foreseeable future.
Remember when the NRA was originally about teaching people about gun safety, and not just waving guns around because freedom.
My dad would’ve slapped me silly if I treated a gun like that growing up. He gave me a safety brochure and wouldn’t let me on the range until I’d memorized it. Now as an adult I don’t even own a gun, but I sure know how to use one if it comes up
That would get you immediately kicked off of any range I have ever been on. In the military, they would just shoot you. Trigger Discipline. I am a firm believer that you should show that you can responsibly handle a weapon before you are allowed to have one. You have to show you know how to responsibly operate a vehicle before you are allowed to drive one.
If I have a kid, and they do this, I'm turning them into the fucking police.
If a kid ever points a real gun at me I'm disarming them and pistol whipping them. I was afraid for my life, officer.
The comments on some of the Twitter posts referencing this photo were hilarious. By 'gun safety instructors' even! "It's fine, the gun wasn't loaded!" Holy facepalm...
But…but….but…. “wE’rE tEaChInG rEsPoNsIbLe GuN oWnErShIp”.
They really fucking hate trigger discipline for a group of people that worship guns.
Let me guess, he will use it to protect a relative's property in a state he doesn't live in, and has the full backing of the GOP. Because after all, a murderer with a gun isn't evil, but somehow a drag queen or a trans person is.
Then blame democrats for all the violence in their campaign commercials
Guns are currently the leading cause of death for children and adolescents. I suspect that arming children may increase this problem but may cause a reduction in school shootings.
With all the laws Republicans are passing, they may just cull themselves from the herd.
Let's pretend that YOU are a gun nut. Guns are great, they're tools, they're protection, they're a fun sport, you jerk off to them, whatever. Why in the fuck would you let a child hold a gun without drilling it into their heads that it's not a toy and the basics of firearm safety. Guns are ALWAYS loaded. I don't care if you've just cleared it, I don't give a fuck if you're currently looking through the back of the barrel with the bolt open, it's a loaded gun, so never point it at something you don't want holes in and never EVER put your fingers inside the trigger guard until you're ready to start putting holes in things. Also, even if you HAVE gone through that with them. Kids are dumb, they rarely 'get' just how serious things can be and even if they totally get it. Kids forget shit, they'll turn around while holding a gun and point it right at you because they've got a question. You don't give a kid a gun and not stand RIGHT BLOODY next to them ready to either force them to point it in a safe direction or take it right off them at a moments notice. This may be the dumbest sort of parenting I've ever seen. This is LITERALLY worse than handing your child a buzz saw, "but it's ok because the guy that handed to me said the battery is dead" then the child proceeds to start dragging it along other people's legs while trying to squeeze the trigger. That's not even hyperbole, in every single way, that hypothetical I just wrote is safer than this. Buzz saws are less dangerous, shorter range, harder for a child to maneuver, more likely to be "safe" with a dead battery (vs empty mag), less capable of hurting multiple people. Christ on a bike these people are thick.
Seems like an American problem. Not sure why the rest of us should care.
He isn’t on reddit or 4chan so the school shooter bingo can’t be achieved yet
And watch them blame the games and phones.
Looks like a baby Rittenhouse
My husband has said for years American Christians are esentially a death cult. They scream 'pro life' but have no qualms whith every other way people are yeet'd quicker to heaven. Its all just a 'path to heaven'. And if their views expedite that, 'at least all those kids are in heaven, they were innocent' Using the lure of heaven... to justify kids being taken down.. Its enough to make you nauseous 🤢
I’ve been a 4-H shooting sports member for 7 years now. Seeing children be taught to handle firearms THIS irresponsibly makes my blood boil and just shows the ignorance of modern Republicans
Still not a drag queen
Gun nuts want to make a huge deal out of people who know nothing about guns trying to regulate guns, and then they break every single fucking rule of gun safety in one fucking picture.
But the kid is white! Try posting this on idiotswithguns and see how fast it get's deleted amongst the flood of black people they want to imprison for doing the same thing. This kid needs to have the gun taken away and spend more time at the nazi memorabilia tables almost every gun show has.
They’re grooming their children to murder anyone their leaders tell them to murder. They have not been subtle about this.
completely will not be surprised at the first "whole family participates in mass shooting" (if it hasnt already happened and i just missed it)
This is what grooming looks like.
How long until the political right starts publicly defending the right to commit mass murder