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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 199 points 9 months ago (110 children)

Parents who buy their children guns at all need to all be evaluated. There is seriously something wrong with giving children something whos intended purpose is delivering lethal force.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 108 points 9 months ago (81 children)

I don’t find it weird for hunting, but giving a child unrestricted access to firearms is insane to me given children are not able to assess risk the same way adults do.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (14 children)

Oh, I don't mean temporary custody under controlled and hopefully educated circumstances, but those who hand it over completely. A kid simply does not need that power nor have the responsibility for full time custody.

Hell, the government wants people 18+ before they'll hand someone a gun and let them go die for something...

[–] einat2346 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hell, the government wants people 18+

No, I'm pretty sure that was some ancient Christian pro-lifers who came up with that rule. Government would take people younger if they could.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"... if they could."

Yea that's kinda' EXACTLY the point... they CAN make it that way, but haven't. The entire point is that modern Republicans are far more despicable than most any kind of politician from history. Yes, that includes slavers.

It takes an entire additional level of evil to step BACK IN TO social problems, and that's 100% of the modern GOP platform: bring back problems that were already solved.

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