May 1, 2013
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Too Stupid To Parent
Now I’m going to talk out of my ass here with this issue and by all means I do not have all the facts. But, here I go anyways. Have you all heard about the five year old boy in Kentucky who accidentally shot and killed his two year old sister? Turns out the parents gave him a gun for his birthday. Yes that’s right, they gave a five year old a real gun for his birthday. Okay, I make no secrets about it, I’m strongly for gun reform. But, although giving a five year old a gun as a birthday gift is probably not the best idea, that is not the biggest issue here. The biggest issue is what the fuck type of idiot parent gives the kid a loaded fucking gun? Shit even if they didn’t give the kid the loaded gun, how do they allow for the kid to get his hands on a loaded gun or to get the bullets for the gun?
Now I’m sure the parents are grief stricken over this whole thing. Honestly you have to feel for them; a dead child is tragic regardless of the situation. That being said, the parents should probably be charged with involuntary manslaughter and even if they aren’t they should lose custody of their kids. Normally I’m against government intervention in a parent’s right to raise their children, but honestly you are a severely negligent parent if your five year old is shooting a gun.
But this is the gun obsessed country we live in. The sheriff in the town said it was just “a crazy accident”. No, that’s not a crazy accident. A crazy accident is a clown slipping on some marbles and chipping his tooth. This is irresponsible and dangerous parenting. And yet, we don’t have background checks in the country for guns. Perhaps we need background checks for parenting instead. And while it is not everyday that a five year old shoots a two year old, accidental shootings happen everyday in this country. Not just a few everyday but when you consider that 35,000 people are killed by guns yearly in America, one would have to guess that the number of people injured or killed by accidental shootings on a daily basis has got to be in the hundreds.
And yet, no background checks. What a Goddamn pity.
Comments (2)
Darwin’s theory at work.
I shot a gun recently for the first time and there are all kinds of safety mechanisms on a gun. I can’t believe that child knew to do all those things. I bet his parents showed him how
You’re right….why was it loaded in the first place?!?! Sad. Can you imagine being the kid and having to live with that the rest of your life?