ABC's propaganda placing guns in kids' hands

[Irving]

Shouldn't they be arrested for neglect, reckless endangerment, child abuse, being an idiot, etc?

Absolutely not! If those guns were empty, then none of the children were in danger. If they are punished, then ALL gun owners can be punished, which is probably exactly what they want.

[theGinsue]

Shouldn't they be arrested for neglect, reckless endangerment, child abuse, being an idiot, etc?

+1

Absolutely not! If those guns were empty, then none of the children were in danger. If they are punished, then ALL gun owners can be punished, which is probably exactly what they want.

The fact of the matter is that parents and others are ALREADY being charged/convicted of those "crimes" for these types of acts. They need to be charged for bringing the guns on school property which, I'm quite sure, is illegal for anyone else to have done at that school, even for legitimate personal safety reasons.

I love this comment from one of those posting feedback in that Twitchy thread:

@StephenGutowski @Melvin_Udall_
Obviously, the lesson is that keeping your guns away from ABC keeps kids safe. Shameless

[wctriumph]

I stopped watching ABC probably almost 40 years ago when one of their executives said that we needed to do away with that troublesome second amendment, or some such statement. Like I said, it has been some 40 years ago. I just don't watch anything on ABC if I can help it.

[Skip]

Shouldn't they be arrested for neglect, reckless endangerment, child abuse, being an idiot, etc?

Let me think about that...

[Bailey Guns]

Absolutely not! If those guns were empty, then none of the children were in danger. If they are punished, then ALL gun owners can be punished, which is probably exactly what they want.

Disagree. There's a difference between negligently, knowingly and willfully placing guns in locations where they'll be found by children. If you place a gun in your child's backpack, you SHOULD be charged with child abuse.

If you take reasonable and appropriate steps to keep the gun out of the child's hands, different story.

[Irving]

You can bring guns onto school property for a demonstration, but otherwise, I'd say yes.

[Irving]

Disagree. There's a difference between negligently, knowingly and willfully placing guns in locations where they'll be found by children. If you place a gun in your child's backpack, you SHOULD be charged with child abuse.

If you take reasonable and appropriate steps to keep the gun out of the child's hands, different story.

I understand what you mean, but the fact of the matter is that an empty gun is not that dangerous. Those kids were in serious danger of pinched fingers and bruised toes. About the same as having bedroom doors and canned foods in the house.

[Sawin]

Absolutely not! If those guns were empty, then none of the children were in danger. If they are punished, then ALL gun owners can be punished, which is probably exactly what they want.

+1. The liberal strategy knows no bounds... do not punish them on the grounds that it put the children in danger, because it did not... punish them through any other available precedent that has already been set in place...

[Bailey Guns]

Then why do we preach, ad nauseum, that "all guns are always loaded", "don't point the muzzle at anything you're not willing to destroy" and "keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and ready to fire"?

So now, all of a sudden, it's OK to point the muzzle of a gun at your face because it's "unloaded"? It's OK to violate the safety rules because it's "unloaded"? That flies in the face of everything all of us are constantly taught about gun safety. If it's OK to violate the safety rules because the gun is "unloaded", then we need a rule 5.

Rule 5: Disregard all the other rules if the gun is "unloaded". Go ahead and throw one in your kids backpack and let him take it to school if it's unloaded.

I guarantee that if one of those kids had shown up at school, with one of the same unloaded guns used in that video, even if the child didn't know about it some "Zero Tolerance" policy would've kicked in and the child would've been suspended or expelled and the parents would've sure as hell been charged.

That entire video was a goat fuck in the first degree. Those assholes should be criminally liable.

[Irving]

No, none of that is okay. But making it so having a kid and a gun in the same room gets you into trouble is not okay. That's clearly what they are going for.