Parent Fail

Comment from justin moser
Time: October 25, 2009, 7:00 pm

probably fake. i see an uzi and an assault rifle, both of which are banned by the Brady bill. and that scope is just ridiculous. what are you going to shoot with that thing, it’s not a sniper rifle.

Comment from King
Time: October 27, 2009, 3:33 pm

Very real. Not an Uzi, but a Tec 9. It’s a semi-automatic handgun. The assault rifle appears to be an AR-15 with an A1 or A2 upper receiver. That’s likely the owner’s hunting rifle considering the size of that scope.

And the Brady Bill banned nothing. Machine guns were banned from civilian use in 1986.

Comment from Coldsun
Time: November 4, 2009, 3:21 pm

As King said the middle is a Tec-9 and the AR-15 is not only LEGAL but widely used by hunters and professional marksmans in competition.

Comment from Lenny
Time: November 14, 2009, 9:33 am

Nothing wrong with this photo at all.
Teaching kids respect for and proper handling of weapons at an early age is a good thing.

Children who grow up around responsible gun owners are not the danger….the danger is the kids who decide to use guns in crime, and that decision was long in the making…long before they ever had access to guns.

My father taught me gun safety and shooting when I was 9 years old. The school I attended in the late 1970s had a rifle team, every kid I knew in school had guns in the home, and no one ever used them in a crime.

That phenomenon didn’t start until much later on as our culture degenerated, and since guns have been demonized by the Leftist idiots in our country.

Coincidence?

Comment from King
Time: November 15, 2009, 4:39 pm

Actually, yes it is a coincidence. I agree with you, teaching your children to respect firearms is an excellent way to go, especially if you own firearms in your home.

Infact, teaching children anything at an early age in general is a good thing. The more experience they have, the safe they’ll be. No, we shouldn’t be sticking .44 Magnums in the hands of tykes, but BB guns are and have been entirely acceptable to most children pre-political correctness.

“That phenomenon didn’t start until much later on as our culture degenerated, and since guns have been demonized by the Leftist idiots in our country.”

The culture isn’t degenerating, and the leftists haven’t demonized firearms. I know as many conservatives as liberals that are gun-grabbers. The problems are way more complex than just blaming one political wing over another, however.

Comment from Brad
Time: December 6, 2009, 9:09 am

Looks good to me.

Muzzle disclipline: CHECK. Nobody has a firearm pointed at them. Muzzles pointed in safe direction.

Trigger disclipline: CHECK. Nobody has fingers on the trigger.

They look comfortable with the firearms, and that’s a good thing.

They look like three happy children do me. I doubt any repeat offender will ever sexually assault anyone in that group. They apparently will be taught self defense. In some minds, that’s a good thing.

They certainly don’t look like willing victims. I guess that’s why someone sees it as a fail.

Comment from Peace Warrior
Time: December 6, 2009, 9:21 am

Awesome picture! Look at the way these young ladies hold these firearms. NOT ONE FINGER ON THE TRIGGER! This fact alone makes the parent EXCEPTIONAL! Not to mention that the barrels are all pointed in a safe direction. The parent(s) of these girls has taught them well.

Also, if these young American citizens continue to practice and exercise such trigger and barrel discipline, who knows, maybe one of them will grow and enter into law enforcement.

This photo is most definitely NOT a parent fail, but thanks for posting it just the same. Good to see that there are still parents out there that love their children enough to teach them how to properly handle firearms.

There is one fail I’d like to mention though. The Dad and Mom that had these three beautiful angels will fail to get any rest as the boys in their neighborhood will be constantly knocking on their door until these young ladies get married or leave for college.

Comment from brent
Time: December 6, 2009, 9:23 am

Three Americans who will not be victims
The original homeland security

Comment from caldonnox
Time: December 6, 2009, 9:23 am

Wow look at that children performing gun safety better then some adults.
#1 no one has a gun pointed at anyone. The girls in the back are behind the one in the front so nice try with the tac 9.
#2 no one has their finger near the trigger.

And judging by the way the girls all look the same they are probably sisters and have grown up around firearms and firearms safety and are more well off in knowledge then most people who buy a gun and hold it sideways because it looks cooler.

The hell with parent fail, This is parent WIN!

Comment from Charlie
Time: December 6, 2009, 9:30 am

I suspect that the only thing these girl’s dad will “fail” at is letting his girls become victims.

Comment from Kelsey Shakelford
Time: December 6, 2009, 9:35 am

I am not extremely fond of guns but these kids look like they are pointing them in a safe direction and fingers not on the trigger, and most importantly they are obviously under adult supervision.

Guns are a real part of life and it is the 3rd largest Olympic sport. I don’t see anything wrong with it.

Comment from Max
Time: December 6, 2009, 9:42 am

The only real failure here is that on the part of the person who created this “fail” picture.

For example, none of these three girls have “fingers on trigger”, and all appear to be pointing the guns in safe directions, from the perspective of the apparent person behind the camera.

Nice pic. I should get such a scope for my .308

Max.

Comment from Your Name Here
Time: December 6, 2009, 10:03 am

Very nice picture and excellent trigger safety being shown. I think it’s very important to teach kids proper gun safety. I’m a certified NRA instructor that was competition shooting by age 9. By age 12, I had fired a number of belt-fed and sub-machine guns.

Comment from porupine
Time: December 6, 2009, 10:06 am

justin moser – Learn what an assault weapon is and get back with me.

king – I legally own 7 full-auto weapons. What’s your comment about machine guns? Learn what a tax stamp is and get back with me.

Comment from Ken
Time: December 6, 2009, 10:28 am

justin…

The Brady Bill had little to do with the AR15. You’re thinking of the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004. All of those guns are perfectly legal.

Comment from King
Time: December 6, 2009, 10:59 am

The 1986 FOPA banned the sale, manufacturing, and other such garbage of machine guns to civilians. You can purchase anything that was manufactured before 1986 (provided you have the tax stamp to go with it, per 1934 guidelines), but you cannot make any new ones.

That, Porupine, is what I am referring to.

Comment from porupine
Time: December 6, 2009, 2:45 pm

You cannot make new ones for other than LEO, military, or dealer samples. There’s plenty of dealers that are in the business just so they can have toys. Check youtube for the Knob Creek machine gun shoot. Some rich folks have mini-guns, tanks, and other expensive toys.

Full-auto is an expensive habit. I prefer SBS’s, SBR’s, and suppressors.

Comment from King
Time: December 6, 2009, 3:17 pm

The ordinary person cannot obtain automatic firearms unless they obtain an FFL, in which case, they’re no longer an ordinary person, but a registered dealer, for all intents and purposes.

Compare that to the “ordinary person” who can buy handguns, shotguns (or as I like to call them, shotfuns), and rifles without much hassle.

Of course, you can always go the trust route.
http://forums.officer.com/showthread.php?t=107341

Comment from brad
Time: December 6, 2009, 8:54 pm

Actually King, you are still WAAAAYYYYY off. An average person CAN own full auto weapons if they apply with the BATFE and receive a Class III weapons stamp. A class III stamp is for taxation purposes, it has nothing to do with the selling of firearms as a dealer.

A Federal Firearms License (FFL) and a Class III stamp are two completely different things.

I am not sure, but I suspect (based on what I’ve heard over the years) a dealer of Class III weapons is really subject to government oppressions.

All a tax stamp does is register the owner with the feral government, enables the holder to suffer additional harassments by the federal bureaucracy, and allows them to possess class III firearms legally.

You don’t seem to understand the nations gun laws, which proves just how confusing they really are. Don’t try to get the last word, because it’s not helping your cause.

IOW, quit digging.

Comment from porupine
Time: December 6, 2009, 9:40 pm

king – I just bought another full auto last week. I’m not a dealer, I just happen to live in a state that believe citizens should be able to own such weapons.

Comment from King
Time: December 6, 2009, 10:19 pm

You’re right. Ordinary citizens *can* obtain automatic weapons, but I’m still right considering the manufacture of automatic weapons for civilian use. No new automatics, except those authorized for government use, have entered the country since 1986.

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/44/922

Legally speaking.

Comment from Kevin
Time: January 4, 2010, 12:53 am

“Hey y’all, take Deddy’s guns and smile real perty now, ya hear.” Rednecks should be sterilized.

Comment from King
Time: January 4, 2010, 1:18 am

Liberals should be sterilized.

Comment from porupine
Time: January 4, 2010, 2:04 am

I just got a call from a buddy that’s a class III dealer. He’s just took possession of a demo minigun. If he wants too much for it and cannot sell it, he’s still has possession of a new automatic weapon to have fun with.
Why waltz when you can rock and roll?

Comment from jay
Time: March 15, 2010, 6:57 pm

The sheer ignorance (legal and safety) on all sides here is disturbing. Talk about parent fails lol.

Good muzzle and trigger safety kids. Ur parents too.
Thought for the day: Cars are far more dangerous and lethal than firearms. Yet nearly anyone can pass a driver’s ed test, purchase a car sans waiting period and the penalties for misuse are seldom enforced and mild in nature. So should we allow teens to drive @ age 16?

Comment from PJ
Time: March 15, 2010, 8:19 pm

Who can see the happy switch to tell if a weapon is indeed an assault weapon? Do you have a microscope? How do you do it?

Comment from AmericanIdiot
Time: July 18, 2010, 3:21 pm

Christ. When I read all of your posts, I thought you were all kidding. You are all complete freaks! You 2nd amendment loving morons are the reason the world sees you americans as such a massive humiliation to yourselves. You can’t see whats wrong with this? You all deserve each other and if there’s ONE good thing about all of this, is that you are all stuck in your ignorant, self serving country. Please, continue you gun loving, violent lives and kill off each other. The world waits, laughing.

Comment from King
Time: July 18, 2010, 5:11 pm

Yes, AmericanIdiot, those gunloving nations like Switzerland and Canada have such violent life styles, couldn’t possibly be the half-baked religious wackjobs that held office for eight years. Couldn’t possibly be the half-baked parents letting their kids loose on the streets in high-crime areas. No, it’s the guns. Blame the car, the car manufacture, the road construction crews, for the death of those in the accident, but never blame the drunk driver.

Comment from Peace Warrior
Time: July 20, 2010, 9:40 pm

IN care of the: Comment from AmericanIdiot

Dear Americanidiot,

In your comment you stated, and I quote, “Please, continue you gun loving, violent lives and kill off each other.”

I ask that you please research this issue for yourself. If you do, you will find and come to understand that where local and or individual State governments in America have honored the Second Amendment as well as the rest of our wonderfully unique AMERICAN Constitution, the violent crime rates have gone down drastically.

Why do you think VIOLENT crime rates go down when law abiding, American citizens (NOTE: I said citizens and subjects to the crown mind you) both own and know how to safely handle guns? It’s a simple deduction, which is violent criminals are not the only ones with weapons.

Now as far as the photo. Again, these three, young AMERICAN citizens are safely handling these firearms. I fear NOTHING from these three ladies and these firearms.

Lastly, you also stated, “The world waits, laughing.” Interesting to me is the sheer ignorance you bring with your presupposition(s) that outlawing guns for law abiding peoples is the solution to violent crime. The mindset you have adopted, when coupled with historic facts, causes me to fear your way of thinking greatly.

You see, both hitler and stalin was able to get people thinking the exact same way you do now. I hope you do not also espouse their plans for America, but if you do, please know that as of the date of this writing, we law abiding, gun owning AMERICAN citizens have ways and means of resisting such take over attempts from “the rest of the world.”

Comment from AmericanIdiot
Time: July 21, 2010, 7:50 am

Dear “Peace Warrior” (Quite the contradiction of terms, don’t you think?)

I HAVE researched the issue myself. And the US leads the way in gun related deaths, suicides and overall gun casualties, next to Brazil and Jamaica. Good work!
Violent crime does NOT go down with more gun ownership. This is common knowledge. And for argument sake, okay lets allow the American “law abiding citizen” to handle guns. Fine. Yet, you think this photo is okay? I mean to give children, equipped with childrens MINDS, to hold and pose with weapons like these and call it responsible. I’m not going to even argue this. I’m far too intelligent to waste my time in a debate about that.
Hitler and Stalin? Do you even KNOW your History? I’m assuming you know the SHIT out of American History, but little of elsewhere.
Please, genius, explain to me the correlation between Hitler, Stalin and me.

And please. As far as “American citizens have ways and means of resisting such take over attempts from the rest of the world?” Yes. We know what you do. You remain neutral until Britain, France and Canada has done the grunt work, THEN come in help finish, and make movies showing how you saved the world.
moron.

Comment from Peace Warrior
Time: July 21, 2010, 5:31 pm

In your attempt to espouse your overall intelligence and sagaciousness on this topic, you seem to use name calling just a tad too much to be believable, but for argument’s sake, let us allow your self critique to be accurate.

You state, “Violent crime does NOT go down with more gun ownership. This is common knowledge.” Sorry pal, you are just simply wrong here. DO THE RESEARCH AND LOOK IT UP THIS TIME PLEASE. It is painfully obvious that your agenda and presuppositions are interfering with your ability to handle the truth when it completely contradicts your erroneous espousal on the issue of gun ownership by law abiding citizens verses violent crime in the united States.

Additionally, (since you have opened the door) you state, “Please, genius, explain to me the correlation between Hitler, Stalin and me.” I assumed someone as intelligent as you insists that you are would have known the correlation immediately, but I guess both of us were wrong as I incorrectly wrote stalin when I meant lenin. So understanding, both hitler and lenin demanded gun control first, and afterward gun confiscation. With your earlier diatribe, it is my opinion that you three (i.e., you, hitler, and lenin) are perfectly alike in this regard.

Moreover, it was lenin himself who advised, “One person with a gun can control one hundred people without one.” Gun control is not about reducing crime. Gun control is about is gaining more control over the people. History has proven this fact repeatedly. The fact that you repeatedly ignore historical precedents concerning gun control indicates either your ignorance, stupidity, or refusal to allow your agenda to defer to the facts.

Lastly, you state, “[Americans] remain neutral until [the subjects of] Britain, France and Canada has done the grunt work, THEN [Americans] come in help finish, and make movies showing how you saved the world.”

Wow… just wow.

Comment from AmericanIdiot
Time: July 24, 2010, 8:21 am

Well, then I guess if gun control does not have a correlation with gun violence, and the US has one of the highest gun related deaths on Earth, I suppose you just can’t trust an American with a firearm. I mean, civilized places like Europe and Canada have nowhere near the amount of gun related deaths, yet they do not demand the right to arm themselves.
I really don’t even care about this. Please, arm your children and take pictures and wave the flag. The rest of us will carry on being responsible.

Comment from Peace Warrior
Time: July 26, 2010, 6:04 pm

I too an tiring of this intercourse, but more so for having to defend the obvious facts instead of not caring about this issue.

To close our interaction, let me just state that the purpose of Second Amendment, along with the other nine amendments we collectively refer to as the Bill of Rights, is not simply about arming CITIZENS for self-protection from each other, but rather it is SOLELY about arming CITIZENS for protection from a representative Republic form of government being taken over by a democracy, which the Founding Fathers termed “mobacracy.”

Nice speaking with you herein, but first please take an honest look at history IN LIEU of blindly holding to an anti-American agenda.

No hard feelings on this end.