Boy lived within arsenal of 98 guns: 11-year-old, dad and grandmom charged in shooting of playmate

Star Ledger ^ | 07.13.06 | TOM HAYDON

[Quark606]

Tragic accident? That kid probably had his choice of everything from a .38 revolver to a water cooled .30 machine gun.

People who are of good moral character have the right to own a weapon, but once you buy 98 of them, then you know that something is very wrong.

[misterrob]

One gun is too many in the hands of irresponsible people. An 11 year old kid has the capacity to understand that guns are not toys and yet this kid stuck a gun in his friend's face and pulled the trigger.

Sounds to me that the father and grandmother didn't teach him to respect the weapon and nor did they provide him with ample supervision.

[Shooter 2.5]

I guess if you want a coin collection, you should only be allowed one coin.

[Graybeard58]

but once you buy 98 of them, then you know that something is very wrong.

The number of guns anyone owns has no relevance.

I don't own 98 guns but I am a gun owner and I always taught my kids gun safety.

[T Wayne]

What Shooter 2.5 said!!!

[Nachoman]

98 guns? Thats not an arsenal, thats a Texas starter set.

[freedomlover]

What if I have 98 knives? What do you think of that?

[Lurker]

98 is my personal goal.

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[mountn man]

but once you buy 98 of them, then you know that something is very wrong.

How about 97? If you own 97, are you still OK?

[freedomlover]

OK I note you are a Student 9th Grade. Welcome to FR

[KarinG1]

We always had plenty of guns around the house when I was growing up but I never shot anybody. My dad would have tanned my hide.

[paul51]

I have no problem at all with 98 guns. I have a major problem with any loaded weapons unsecured around children.

[paul51]

98 is my personal goal

That's not a bad start

[Rameumptom]

The story is tragic.

Unfortunately the MSM will try to outlaw guns now.

I grew up around weapons. My dad had 30 or so, mostly rifles and shotguns. Of course they were stashed away and the ammunition was kept seperate. He drilled into my brothers and sister (all hunters) the technique of checking to see if a weapon was loaded any time you first had it in your hands.

When he was a kid in Minnesota. He and his friend would go duck hunting before school. They would bring their shotguns to school and keep them in their lockers. One time they were late because they got stuck in the mud. They trailed into the principals office. they only thing he asked them was "did you get any?" then sent them to class without consequence.

Times have changed.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Deju-vu...

Grandmother Faces Charges For Failing To Secure Gun

A 12-year-old boy is in custody and his grandmother could go to jail after police say her grandson shot a neighborhood boy in the head with her gun.

9News spoke with the grandmother who's facing charges for leaving her gun where children could reach it.

[Lurker]

I remember getting on my school bus with grand dads old bolt action 16 gauge. I put the gun in my locker, and the shells in the Principals office.

After school we collected our shells and off we went.

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[MadLibDisease]

"I guess if you want a coin collection, you should only be allowed one coin."

Touche'

I have a friend in K.C., emailed me a pic of his cache of weapons, around 70. There is NOTHING wrong with that, unless you're a bed wetting liberal

[D1X1E]

An 11-year-old East Brunswick boy who fatally shot his friend last month was surrounded by guns

Im surrounded by trees but it doesnt make me act like a monkey. One gun or one hundred, either this kid has a problem and meant to do this or it was an accident and the parents share responsibility for not teaching him about the weapons.

[LibWhacker]

An 11-year-old East Brunswick boy who fatally shot his friend last month was surrounded by guns.

So what? I grew up surrounded by guns. They were tucked away in several rooms of the house, in the cars, in my neighbors' houses, in my relatives' houses, in my friends' houses. Locks... What locks? Not even on the front door. And never did I nor any of the other kids I grew up with EVER shoot anybody except in war. Being surrounded by lots of guns has nothing to do with it. The kind of people who own the guns has everything to do with it.