Nearly all of the challenges I face as an instructor are due to poor parenting. Parents do indeed really suck and they are getting worse. Even the number of sucky parents are on the rise as our culture becomes more and more cemented in the misplaced and harmful values of the Michael Jordan Generation. It's very clear that parents are just not doing their job.
Never was this statement more true than with the parents of the shooter in the recent Sparks, Nevada Middle School shooting. While it hasn't been fully confirmed yet, the student who killed teacher and vet Michael Landsberry and wounded two other students likely got the semi-auto 9mm from his parents. What the hell were they thinking? And what kind of a fucking country do we live in where a guy who does tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan lives through that but gets shot in his hometown? It's stuff like this that completely disgusts me.
This would be a clear example of people who should not be allowed to own guns and why our laws regarding arms need to be changed. Their license to own a gun should be taken away and they should face criminal charges. I'm wondering if they were "live free or die" types like Nancy Lanza who also thought it would be nifty to let her mentally ill sun have access to her guns.
The facts of this case have been very slow in coming but my takeaways are that it's clear there was some sort of bullying involved (more on that later), the shooter was mentally ill, and his parents are directly responsible. Further, this latest incident has led me to reflect about Newton and come to the conclusion the ideology that bloviates from the gun community is also responsible. This is particularly true in the case of Nancy Lanza who bought their lies to such a degree that she felt she needed a fucking arsenal to protect herself.
It begins and ends with the parents, folks. If they don't do their job, we end up with situations like this. And more and more of them these days are failing miserably.
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Further, this latest incident has led me to reflect about Newton and come to the conclusion the ideology that bloviates from the gun community is also responsible. This is particularly true in the case of Nancy Lanza who bought their lies to such a degree that she felt she needed a fucking arsenal to protect herself.
Well, par for the course. Your assertions and takeaways are nothing but ignorance wrapped in faux knowledge.
Ignorance wrapped in faux knowledge is spot on.
Let's examine some of Mark's screed....
...likely got the semi-auto 9mm from his parents. What the hell were they thinking?
Mark dishonestly makes it sound like the parents packed the fucking gun in his lunch with a sandwich. Slimy and dishonest.
Mark has absolutely no idea in what state the gun was stored in the home. Was it locked? Did the shooter steal the key? Hell, Mark doesn't even give a little conjecture on this point.
a clear example of people who should not be allowed to own guns
A-ha. There's the truth in Mark's point. He can't show any actual thing done wrong. He in fact is dishonest in his characterizations. And his solution is to take away guns. Kinda puts to lie his oft repeated assertions that no one wants to take your guns when he is so easily given to wanting to take your guns isn't it?
Their license to own a gun should be taken away
Ignorance. Mark wants to show that he's intelligent and knowledgeable and therefore his points are valid. Knowledge that over and over and over he has willfully refused to gain. IS NEVADA, NO LICENSE TO OWN GUN. Would you seriously take societal advise from a guy who is so ill-informed (and on purpose to boot) to not know such a simple fact?
they should face criminal charges
They may, or they may not. But you just don't yet know enough about the case to even point to what law they may or may not have even violated. Yet despite not knowing ANYTHING of substance you still want to criminally punish people. That says more about you than I could, and none of it is good.
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