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To: SkyPilot

I know this is not the main point of the article, but why do people allow 12 year olds unfettered access to guns? This makes no sense even with a perfectly sane child, much less a child the grandparents already knew had problems.

The sanity of the grandparents (and parents and relatives in other similar stories) is called into question.


20 posted on 08/14/2007 7:35:02 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne
This makes no sense even with a perfectly sane child,

It does if ones approach to guns are that they are a tool, which they are, and not some evil creation, which they aren't. I don't lock my hammers up, aside to keep them from being stolen, why should I have to do the same with a gun?

In this case, I am not saying that more precautions didn't need to be taken; they probably should have in retrospect. What I am saying, is that once the decision to kill was made, the 12 year old could have just as easily taken a baseball bat to them in their sleep, or carved them up with a butcher knife.

91 posted on 08/14/2007 8:58:00 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: Lorianne

Don’t know anything about this kid, but my dad never locked up his guns. He was hardly insane.


140 posted on 08/14/2007 5:33:50 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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