Father of the year award? Baby playing with gun. [Archive] - Colorado AR-15 Shooters Club Discussion Forums

brutal

01-13-2015, 02:01

Sorry if repost. This should probably be in the WTF were they thinking thread.

http://youtu.be/E9JG18jqY_A

Great-Kazoo

01-13-2015, 02:19

Next it's kids on their first hunting trip. Was it bad judgment, sure.

Guylee

01-13-2015, 04:18

Looks fine to me.

Bailey Guns

01-13-2015, 06:55

That's horrible. That gun is obviously WAY too big for that kid to grip properly. Parents obviously know nothing about guns or kids.

def90

01-13-2015, 08:56

loaded or not? if not it's no different than a building block.. if loaded then we can speculate on the wisdom of the parents.

Skip

01-13-2015, 08:59

loaded or not? if not it's no different than a building block.. if loaded then we can speculate on the wisdom of the parents.

Every gun is always loaded.

Should we list each of the other four rules that were broken? I think that's enough to speculate on the wisdom of the parents, IMHO.

ETA: I feel compelled to point out... I'm not advocating the guy's door be kicked in and he be relieved of his firearm(s). Just pointing out that this is really stupid.

In my house we "never touch a gun" and "get an adult." (Too young now to safely handle a weapon)

JohnnyEgo

01-13-2015, 11:01

In my house, things work a little differently. Any time my child wants to see a gun, I let him. I get it, make sure it is unloaded, and allow him to see/feel/touch it in any way he wants under my careful supervision. The result is that guns are not a mystery to him, and thus less of a temptation. I would not leave a gun unsecured, loaded or not, because I do not trust the judgement of preschoolers. However, I do not see anything wrong with allowing for controlled exposure to firearms as early as the parents deem is appropriate.

http://johnnyego.com/firearms/friends/events/cfdcc_08_21_11/cfdcc003.JPG
http://johnnyego.com/firearms/friends/events/rangeday6/shotguns09.JPG

Colorado_Outback

01-13-2015, 11:13

Give this man and his son a cookie!^^

Well said.

Aloha_Shooter

01-13-2015, 13:44

In my house, things work a little differently. Any time my child wants to see a gun, I let him. I get it, make sure it is unloaded, and allow him to see/feel/touch it in any way he wants under my careful supervision. The result is that guns are not a mystery to him, and thus less of a temptation. I would not leave a gun unsecured, loaded or not, because I do not trust the judgement of preschoolers. However, I do not see anything wrong with allowing for controlled exposure to firearms as early as the parents deem is appropriate.

That's more or less how my parents handled alcohol when I was growing up. Want some beer or wine with dinner because Mommy and Daddy are having some? Sure, you can have a taste, maybe even more than a little taste, as long as it's what they gave us and we drank whiel they were supervising.

End result? My brother drinks the most, up to a whole bottle of wine by himself dinner, and my sister drinks beer or wine now and then while I drink only on special occasions. None of us viewed it as any big shakes and therefore weren't inclined to get plastered.

brutal

01-13-2015, 14:23

In my house, things work a little differently. Any time my child wants to see a gun, I let him. I get it, make sure it is unloaded, and allow him to see/feel/touch it in any way he wants under my careful supervision. The result is that guns are not a mystery to him, and thus less of a temptation. I would not leave a gun unsecured, loaded or not, because I do not trust the judgement of preschoolers. However, I do not see anything wrong with allowing for controlled exposure to firearms as early as the parents deem is appropriate.

http://johnnyego.com/firearms/friends/events/cfdcc_08_21_11/cfdcc003.JPG
http://johnnyego.com/firearms/friends/events/rangeday6/shotguns09.JPG

No rub there. Do you think it's appropriate to let a child put a gun in their mouth and say bang and pow?

JohnnyEgo

01-13-2015, 15:35

Can't see the video on my phone, so I don't know how far it goes.
Do I think it is appropriate for a small child to put a gun in their mouth? No. I don't think it is appropriate for anyone to do that.
Do I think it is the nature of small children to put everything in their mouth, yes.
Hence, close supervision.

Perhaps the people in this video are crappy parents. I don't know. But I do not prima facie object to exposing a child to an unloaded firearm in a controlled manner.