Posted on 12/25/2014 2:47:55 PM PST by WilliamIII
Last week a small and seemingly innocuous piece in The Times caught my eye. The short panel referred to the fact that Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's right hand man and the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, had just spent $100 on camouflage hunting clothes for his daughter, Liza, 10, to go with the rifle he bought her last Christmas.
Aghast with what I had just read I blogged about it, commenting that buying a 10 year old a rifle for Christmas was insane, and anywhere in the world that it wasn't considered to be must be a crazy place.
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And when all might be starving around her, at least this child will never grow hungry. Not much Conservative around him or in him, he is, to some degree showing here that occasionally he is showing some sense. If well versed on the handling of guns, and trained to fire properly, she might be our next Big Game Hunter. All because her father thought enough of her to allow her to grow. This should be the business of no one else. All the faint hearted, time to reorder your smelling salts.
I’m eagerly waiting to watch the “Consuming of the poop” stage when they are all starving in the dark after their collapse hits. They can’t farm, build anything as simple as a cooking fire or hunt. So it should be entertaining to see.
Then when they run to the feral enclaves after they are barred from ours, we can enjoy the final Festivus celebration...”The bleeding on the ground” ritual.
And we can take pride in our tolerance for accepting the customs of other faiths.
“I nailed a duck when water skiing. Boy I had a lot of explaining to do with the DNR.”
Fellow freepers, I think we have a mental image here worthy of great praise.
Of course what sense the term ‘nailed’ is being used here. One way is funny. The other is hysterical and could get one GOP support in a southern state.
So, you're saying they'd have to burn down a building in order to cook their "dirt" sammiches.
I HAVE bought four ten year old daughters rifles for Christmas, and it will be five as soon as my youngest is old enough.
What’s the big deal?
Been a Freeper for a long time and that is possibly the most asinine, baseless post I've ever read.....PATHETIC
Got my son a scoped 10-22 for Christmas one year.
He never shoots it - prefers the Mosin-Nagant and M1.
See, there’s a problem. TODAY, with access to the tools of making fire, yes, they would be so stupid. But post collapse, when matches or lighters are all but gone, they wouldn’t know how to burn a building down since they are clueless as to what makes fire.
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Don’t have a daughter, but if I did, there’d be no question.
Especially with the likes of WJClinton on earth.
Good. Let some thug try and molest her in 5 to 7 years. He’ll either assume room temperature or lose his testicles.
And she’ll be safe.
Right, but 2012.
Personal opinion, commenting on the practical rather than the political: I don’t recommend buying a ten year old a rifle for his or her first firearm. I think that a shotgun is more practical at that age. The lethal range is shorter and it is easier to hit the target with a pattern of birdshot than with a bullet. I owned a .410 shotgun by the time that I was ten, although I think that a 20 gauge would be a better starting point. (My personal favorite was a 20 gauge pump action Ithaca Featherlight.) Dove or squirrel hunting is a good way to start. Deer hunting is another good way to start (using slugs instead of birdshot). The world would be a better place if we had more fathers teaching their children to hunt.
I got my first rifle, a Remington model 514 at age nine. Since then I have gone through more than I could ever remember. I still enjoy shooting all types of firearms.
I have also had a large number of air guns. In maybe the last ten years it has mostly been airguns. Just so easy to take out and shoot a few times without much fuss. Also quieter than powder burners.
Exactly...what’s the problem here. At one time,many young kids had shotguns & rifles & hunted with them after school. No big deal. The only real problems I see with firearms is when criminal acts are committed with them & the guilty are not promptly & properly prosecuted.
Summer of 1990 I was in Europe with my family and part of the trip involved driving from Bavaria through the Swiss Alps to get to St. Moritz (to board the Glacier Express to Zermatt. I recommend that trip). Anyways, on the way to St. Moritz, we stopped at a small Swiss town nestled in the Alps for dinner at a small restaurant. As we were waiting for the meal to be served, 3 young men in Swiss Army uniform came in, stacked their rifles together leaning them up against the edge of a booth, sat down and ordered dinner.
It was oddly alien to see such a thing... and comforting at the same time. It was basically like "Why is this not normal in the United States?"
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