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.
Yep. and people haven’t a clue where their food and fuel comes from. That is why they vote the way they do.
The author wants us to go back to the ooga-booga days and kill each other with spears and arrows.
Lovely.
They cry themselves to sleep each night, quaking in fear. Liberals.
Hoplophobia is a mental illness.
That degree of stoopid will get you killed.
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?”
Bravo Sierra
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”-—George Orwell
Wonder what fantasy land story she'll tell her kid as Islam begins its assimilation of Europe?
If she thinks her society is dangerous now, she ain't seen nothing yet.
Those who don’t carry swords can still die on them.
How does nitwit twit think Hitler was defeated in World War II?
These twits don’t think. They emote. Incessantly, obsessively, about everything. Arguing with them is pointless; argument is an appeal to reason, and they did not get to where they are by way of reason.
Cashing in on the latest anti-gun binge, this writer’s story is not believable.
We grew up with several guns in racks in our home in ruralTexas and a loaded shotgun in the corner next to the front door. They were not mysterious objects, but we knew what they could do, and we left them alone because our father told us to. Why are children today so shielded from reality?
Problem’s with the parents. If the kid didn’t know that guns are real, then the parents should have told her. /captain obvious
Wow. Wait till she learns about nukes.
Can’t coddle people. Guns are not going away. If mine were taken, I could make a viable single shot and even manufacture black powder for it in a few days..
Can’t put the genie back in the bottle there Libs.
>>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.”
To the author of this article:
In the absence of guns, a criminal can walk into your safe little home and kill your entire family with a knife and there is very little that you can do because you spend your day typing instead of lifting weights and honing your crime skills.
You can lock your doors and he can enter through a window.
You can bar your windows and he can knock a hole in your T-111 siding and drywall in just a few seconds.
A person who is set on doing you harm cannot be deterred except by the threat that you can kill him first. He chooses the time, the place, the victim, the mode of attack, and how far he is willing to go. You cannot be locked in a saferoom all day, so something that is lethal, easy to use, and easy to carry is the only thing in the world that will save your innocent little girl from getting raped and her throat cut.
That thing is not a golf club like the idiots in movies like to use (trying swinging your club in a hallway to see what I mean). It is a gun—like it or not.
These people are crummy parents. For Goodness sake...give your child some responsible adult guidance. Idiots.
Considering the source, that author probably considers anything above the grade of a wedge to be “unreal” since it would beyond his small mind’s ability to comprehend.
Touché. Or in this case to the author, “have a nice trip”.
Great Jessi, you’re raising an idiot.
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