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Guardian Author: My Child Did Not Know Guns are Real
The Social Memo ^ | 10/5/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 10/05/2015 12:23:22 PM PDT by rightistight

The daughter of Guardian author Jessica Valenti did not know that guns existed "in real life." Valenti laments that she even has to tell her daughter "anything about guns," including confirming their existence.

According to Valenti, her daughter five-years-old daughter Layla looked at a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr that hangs in her room and asked, "How did he die?"

Valenti told her that he was killed by a man with a gun. "And that’s when she asked, shocked, if guns existed “in real life,”" and then asked why guns were "allowed."

"The truth is that I resent that I have to tell my daughter anything about guns," Valenti laments. She further asks how she can explain that "we live in a nation where people’s right to own a weapon that kills trumps her right to safety and a life free from fear?"

She continues, "This is not the world I want for her - not the world I want for any child."

In the end, "My husband and I did the best we could that night explaining that guns were, in fact, real, and that despite the fact that they are dangerous some people still own them."

According to Valenti, this all happened the night before the shooting at Umpqua Community College.


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KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; liberals; stupidpeople
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To: rightistight

I am thinking about (correct me if I am wrong to do so) the “Barney Miller” episode in which a prostitute is taken into the station and being booked and questioned, etc by Yemana or one of the other detectives. During this time, she tells the officers that when she was growing up, her mother never really discussed or explained sex or related issues with her. Imagine if you were to switch the word gun to sex in this instance. This is what I fail to understand about these people and their minds concerning something like this.

When I was nine years old, I would visit my great-uncle’s farm where he kept his and his father’s (my great-grandfather’s) firearms in full view in the living room of the old family farmstead (this would have been back in the late 1970s) in Grey County, ON. Given all of this, I find Ms. Valenti’s worldview all the more troubling.


41 posted on 10/05/2015 1:02:48 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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To: rightistight

What a sad, sad, little leftist world they live in.


42 posted on 10/05/2015 1:06:32 PM PDT by vpintheak (A Free Man!)
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To: Fast Moving Angel
Can't recall who it was but I know there was a leftie, and he was telling a story about his child, who had no knowledge of the workings of a firearm. He was a youngster (under 8) and when he eventually came into contact with a toy one, he put the muzzle into his mouth.

His father stated at that moment that he was going to introduce his child to firearms and their proper usage and safety.

43 posted on 10/05/2015 1:14:27 PM PDT by mware
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To: rightistight
Posts like this make me sad. After all, it's all about feeeeeeeelings, right?

A gun is a tool. Period. Wonder if she's teaching her kid to be afraid of the boxcutter in her toolbox? Plenty of people killed with those. Or a kitchen knife. Or ... etc.

FWIW, this weekend WBill Jr. and I had an in-depth discussion on how to arm a WW II character that he's writing about. HE decided on an M-1, because of its hitting power vs the carbine and Thompson. I said "So long as it's appropriate (not too many Captains carrying around flamethrowers, for instance) you're all set."

No imaginary guns here, beyond imagining what it would be like to touch off a bazooka. :-)

44 posted on 10/05/2015 1:15:00 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Bryanw92

Something that escapes liberals.

Good post.


45 posted on 10/05/2015 1:23:33 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: BigEdLB
How does nitwit twit think Hitler was defeated in World War II?

Strongly-worded petitions?

46 posted on 10/05/2015 1:24:10 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: vpintheak

I can’t wait until they explain wars to her.


47 posted on 10/05/2015 1:24:12 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: rightistight

These people are not survivors. They might be useful as slaves once we’re back in the dark ages.


48 posted on 10/05/2015 1:25:47 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: rightistight
the stooopid cow and it's beliefs are more dangerous than any gun... and it owns a child!!!
49 posted on 10/05/2015 1:26:30 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Lol! That’s the line that stuck out to me as well. She needs to find and board that special choo choo that only goes to that libtard utopia, not found on any maps, but rumored to be somewhere out in the South Pacific, where ganja grows in every yard, doggie poop magically disappears, and nobody ever has to take the training wheels off their bicycles.


50 posted on 10/05/2015 1:31:05 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: rightistight

Well, there isn’t a little Billy Drill IV or a little Murderetta (that I know of), but if there were I’d hate like hell to have to tell them that liberals are real. It would be such a beautiful fantasy world if they had to suffer the consequences of their own idiocy before they try to drag the rest of us down with them.


51 posted on 10/05/2015 1:32:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Carthego delenda est

52 posted on 10/05/2015 1:34:47 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: rightistight

“”that guns were, in fact, real, and that despite the fact that they are dangerous some people still own them.””

This idiot is from New York - ‘nuff said. I wonder if she’s told her daughter that “despite the fact that alcohol can be dangerous, people still do it.” Bet the child sees her parents drink alcoholic beverages.

I wonder what kind of a kook has a picture of MLK, Jr. in a child’s bedroom. It said “her room” so I’m assuming it didn’t mean the living room - not even JFK or the Pope but MLK, Jr. ODD!


53 posted on 10/05/2015 1:44:36 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: rightistight

‘...then asked why guns were “allowed.”’

Easy question.

You remember in Star Wars, little girl, there was an evil Emperor who told everyone what they could and couldn’t do, and killed the people who didn’t obey him?

Well, we don’t want one of those bossing us around. That’s why guns are allowed!


54 posted on 10/05/2015 1:46:19 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dead

“Who the f___ hangs a picture of Martin Luther King in a five year old’s bedroom in the first place?”

A political activist who wants to make sure the indoctrination starts as early as possible.


55 posted on 10/05/2015 2:04:52 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Amen!


56 posted on 10/05/2015 2:17:08 PM PDT by Guardian Sebastian (Life is a bitch, why elect one?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yes! That’s the place! ;)


57 posted on 10/05/2015 2:22:54 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: rightistight

Reeks of contrivance from A to Z. Also getting a whiff of desperation...


58 posted on 10/05/2015 2:32:20 PM PDT by W. (I piss on the militant muslims & their horrid koran! GTFO of my America!)
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To: rightistight

Let’s clear off Australia and dump all the liberal idiots on that “island” to fend for themselves. Any attempted breakouts will be dealt with via drones. (sorry, down under)


59 posted on 10/05/2015 2:43:47 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Billthedrill; All
This is a link to the original. Their comments are already closed. Mostly Brits responded.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/05/oregon-umpqua-college-shooting-guns-children-violence

60 posted on 10/05/2015 2:58:09 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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