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.
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.
Why does a 13-year-old have access to guns?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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