Kids 'n guns

A break-in at an Ashtabula home forced a teen to open fire, and a man accused of breaking in is recovering after being shot.

The suspect was shot by a teen who was home alone with his brother and police said the young man did the right thing.

Now hold the phone a dang minute here. What happened to all that "expert" advice we're being fed? What happened to keeping the gun separated from the ammunition and separately locked away? For that matter, if we're to believe these same experts, why did the homeowners even have a gun in the house in the first place?

What happened to kids taking a pledge never to touch a gun as part of their "education"?

And what would the outcome have been had Ohio done as the "experts" insist and passed "child access prevention" laws, to hold gun owners "accountable for leaving guns accessible to kids?"

Well, we know what happened in California, where they had such a law and where it was obeyed:

[T]wo innocent children died needlessly, victims of California’s "safe storage" gun laws.

Can you imagine the horror of being murdered by a pitchfork-wielding madman? And to reconcile that with what finally did stop him: being shot, albeit by the "only ones." All because a teenager trained in the use of firearms had no access to one--by law?

What do you think might have happened in Ashtabula had a brave boy not defended himself with available means?

And since when do blanket ignorance and avoidance produce superior results over age-appropriate training and discipline?

Well, I guess it's technically not robbery if you get a gift card and some basketball tickets for a $1,000 gun--but it sure ain't a fair trade.

Ohio blogger "Hairy Hobbit" presents a conversation between cops about the Cleveland gun "buyback."

What happened to kids taking a pledge never to touch a gun as part of their "education"?

This is news to me. Who is teaching children such rubbish? Guns ARE an education - primarily in safety. Secondarily, in your chosen application: self-defense, hunting, sporting, what have you. The engineering designed to channel the kinetic energies, and the amounts required - the kind of stuff PhD dissertations are made of.

I can envision an imaginary situation where the principal, an alpha male, red-blooded patriot girded with an extra helping of common sense, goes on an extended missionary pursuit over the course of a year. During his absence, various occurances lead to the sad state of affairs at the end, wherein even wearing a shirt with the weapon depicted is frowned upon and punished.

Well, our principal finally returns. Throughout his walkthroughs, he encounters a young man with an AK-47 screenprint on his shirt sitting in the office. "Why are you here, son?" "My shirt is against the rules, sir." Principal, looking perplexed, probes, "Whose rules?" "The board's I guess." "No No NO! Go back to class, and take this hall pass with you." "Thank you. We missed you, sir!"

Later he visits the gym. The kids are doing push-ups - but from the knee! "What's going on here?" Mrs. Tate comes over and says, "Hi! Welcome back! Oh, we modified the training program in accordance with the new sensitivity doctrine enacted during your absence. Some kids just don't have it in the pecks to handle full push-ups, so, ya know..." "As you were before. All: as of this moment, the sensitivy doctrine is dead. We're Americans, not pussies. We're here to learn to be the best educated, best prepared American Citizens we can be, and these changes in my absence have only hindered that. Now, as to restitution to these poor children who have suffered a full schoolyear of this poppycop, we'll have to think of some way to make it up to them... Now, how much money did we have in the exansion fund? $1,300,000. Boys and girls, we're going to build a SHOOTING RANGE right here at this school, and will be establishing a some new new sports: marksmanship and skeet shooting. Boisterous applause! Chants: "Principal! Principal! glad you're back!"

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