Posted on 04/12/2013 5:24:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The other day, the father of a classmate of my son’s called to ask if he could join a group of fourth-grade boys practicing a comedy sketch for their school’s talent show. Like any parent coordinating a child’s schedule, I asked the basics: What time? Where do you live? When should I pick him up? Then I stammered out a final question, apologizing in advance for its personal nature: Do you keep guns in your home?
Long pause. “No,” he replied, “but it’s a valid question.”
The events of the past few days only reinforce the need to ask these questions. Last week, a 4-year-old picked up a loaded gun at a cook-out and accidentally killed the wife of a sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee. And on Monday, another 4-year-old shot and killed a 6-year-old friend as they played outside in a New Jersey neighborhood. “I’m sad for the children involved and their families, but I’m angry with whoever owns that gun and allowed a little child to get hold of it,” neighbor Debbie Coto told the Associated Press.
I’m angry too. But I’m also proactive, which is why I never fail to ask the question of any parent who invites one of my kids over. I got the idea from a gun-safety rally I covered years ago, long before I even had kids. The advice sounded sage, if a bit discomfiting. It never fails to elicit a moment of stunned silence, but I’ve long since made peace with the awkwardness of asking....
(Excerpt) Read more at ideas.time.com ...
If a parent asks in that manner, I don’t want their kid in my home or my kid in their home. I don’t deal with those who are evil or those who are losers, and no one else is worried about whether I am armed.
yup, i’d bet $100 on “straw parent”.
not to be confused with straw man purchase.
Well, it IS Time magazine. Or website. Or whatever. Probably not a magazine any more, right? Last Time magazine I even saw looked thinner than a flier for a local hardware store.
My first question is; Do you have a pool?
Creating the social template for ratting out your neighbors to the 0bamaStazi.
Good point.
And here’s a link to a not-surprising photo of the authoress: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1vxYQCr_0NnYriVKccPC5KA95X3XSqbzqHwnYN4II-cESQz8e
Then the info will be fed through the school to a government database and the family with guns will be flagged as potential patriots, ie, terrorists. Getting kids to rat out on their parents or parents of school chums is older than dirt.
If you are a Progressive you may lie because the end justifies the means. I think the Muslim goat worshipers have a similar allowance for lying.
/johnny
If a fool asked me that question I would have said” You F’in A I do tweety?” If that’s a problem for you you can KMA.
baseball bats?,
rat poison?,
Sledge hammers?,
Axes?,
Matches?,
Pitchforks?,
Fertilizer?,
Diesel?,
Gasoline?,
Buckets capable of holding water?,
The Internet?,
Copies of the Constitution?,
etc.
The idiocy of it is that if you take the gun question seriously there’s no end to what you’d be compelled to go on asking. For instance, is there liquor in the house? Is it locked up? How steep are your stairs? Is there a traction in your bathtubs/showers? Are any of the residents in your house felons? Do you have a solid foundation? Is the roof structurally sound? What is the legal and socio-economic status of your neighbors? Are potentially dangerous implements like knives, tools, gardening implements, lawnmowers, etc. left unguarded? Is your landscape graded evenly, with no holes or divots a child could trip over? Are your pets well tempered? Are their shots up to date? Has anyone had a cold or flu-like symptoms in the previous week? Is there any profane literature on your shelves or elsewhere? And so on.
That anyone would insist on asking about guns and leaving everything else to chance, including many things statistically more dangerous, demonstrates that their fear and/or hatred of guns is a fetish.
How many people does it take to keep a secret?
One. Any more than that, it isn't a secret any more.
If I were to ask such a question, the conversation might go more like this:
Me: Do you have guns in your home?
Them: No, of course not.
Me: Then little Johnny won’t be coming over. If you won’t be able to protect him from any threats, I can’t trust his safety at your house.
Time used to be a high capacity magazine.
From what I've seen lately, it has serious shrinkage problems.
Incandescent light bulbs?
The Bible?
Very nicely done...;)
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