Denver police have arrested a 13-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting a man whose leg was blocking the aisle on a public bus.
I bet the rest of the people on the bus learned some fucking etiquette that day.
gross.
While I do think this situation is tragic all around, I feel the need to post the definition of “Joke” from Wikipedia:
“A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally. It usually takes the form of a story, often with dialogue, and ends in a punch line, whereby the humorous element of the story is revealed; this can be done using a pun or other type of word play, irony or sarcasm, logical incompatibility, hyperbole, or other means.”
And so I think his comment was an absolutely valid joke. You can joke about horrible things and still remain respectful. Actually it’s a very therapeutic and didactic thing to do, if done right.
One is allowed to call a joke gross regardless of the definition of a joke.
That’s disrespectful of their freedom of speech.
Lmao, I see you troll account, trying to fit in with a parody of American culture…nice lol
Nothing like that, I just think we should ban people who don’t respect t other people’s free speech.
It’s a joke. Let go of your pearls.
“Hopes and prayers, constitution ties our hands, we’ve done all we can do, it’s the parent’s fault, he played too much red dead redemption, if all the bus passengers had guns this wouldn’t have happened….”
Start taxing the SHIT out of ammo, Chris Rock had a great idea, we just need to make it law.
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I quoted a comedian, my suggestion was sarcastic, along with the rest of my comment
Why does a 13-year-old have access to guns?
It is legal to hunt at 12 years old in some states.
Edit: I bought enough trigger locks for all my long guns and pistols for under $100. There is no excuse not to have them installed and I live alone. My guns are also in a locker as well as trigger locked. My ammo is in a different room in a safe box screwed to the closet floor from inside the locked box. All this was well under $200 including the gun locker.
I need to get some sleep. I read that as
It is legal to hunt 12 year olds in some states
And thought this 13-year old had a gun after the age he needed it for protection…lmao
To be fair to you, 12 year olds are the worst. Source: was 12 year old
at 13 you should be able to be trosted with a gun. tthis is a parenting issue.
Why do you need to trust a 13 year old with a gun?
I’m not saying that you need to, I’m saying you should be able to.
Ok that solves everything then. He shouldn’t have done that. Problem solved. /s
The question wasn’t about trust. It was: “Why does he have access to a gun?”
i think we all agree he shouldn’t have done that.
I had my own gun and access to guns as a 13 year old. Hunting, target practice, etc. It’s not an insane age to have firearms.
That said, I was raised to respect the fuck out of the danger inherent in a gun, and I used mine to kill deer for food, not kill people I had a mild disagreement with.
Edit: Well fuck me for being born into a different environment ig. Mass downvoting someone for offering a different perspective is healthy for an online community /s
absolutely insane age to have access to a gun unsupervised lmfao
I hunted, shot targets, and protected the farm from predators and varmints safely for years because I was taught religiously and throughly since I was a small child what the responsibilty of wielding a firearm is. Firearms are tools designed to end lives, and they are very, very good at it. There are no take-backs, no do-overs. Each time you touch a firearm, a life could end, and you NEED to be absolutely 100% certain it’s the life you mean to take.
It’s a great crushing weight that many adults, much less 13 year olds, should not be trusted with, but some 13 year olds can bear that responsibility well, as I did. There were never any accidents, because there could not be accidents.
Hear you however not, most, aren’t like that rural or not. There are stories of kids harming and getting harmed by guns.
Best friend grew up in Arizona and got accidentally shot by his friend as kids roughly the same age. Ended up with a bad leg his whole life from it.
Children should not have guns period. Just my opinion
Well fuck me for being born into a different environment ig. Mass downvoting
Are you sure that is the reason? Maybe it could be that posting that 13 is a good age for gun ownership in a thread about a 13 year old who used it wildly inappropriately? You are entitled to think what you want, I just personally find it a little distasteful everytime there is a gun death to make justifications about the system that allowed it to happen. I imagine others agree.
He didn’t say it was good age. He simply stated what his life experience was.
He didn’t simply state what his life experience was. He said the age is “not insane”.
Which, tbf, is not the same as saying it’s a “good” age.
Eh, I feel like most people wouldn’t disagree with the statement “it’s insane to allow 13 year olds to own guns”, and the argument of “well I owned guns at 13 and I turned out fine” isn’t a strong one.
