And so it begins - NEW GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION AND UPDATES HERE

[VARIABLE9]

Nice, list of names for no knock confiscation warrants. (Sarcasm)

[Big A]

Nice, list of names for no knock confiscation warrants. (Sarcasm)

Yeah, I feel sorry for poor John Smith...

Hopefully we can shatter that 100k requirement.

[fledge]

I don’t think the White House even looks at this. Look at all the “repeal the NFA” signers. Almost 300k. Was there a response? Not that I’m aware of.

[skywalkrNCSU]

Online petitions are the biggest waste of a small amount of time, they literally make no difference and have as much value as voting in an online poll on some news site.

[VARIABLE9]

Really didn’t want to start a new thread for this. Tragic headline with a story that leave a lot of questions.

Video console death: US boy, 9, 'kills sister, 13, over controller'

A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi has died after allegedly being shot by her nine-year-old brother over a video game, police say.
They said the boy grabbed a gun on Saturday afternoon after his sister would not give up the controller.
He allegedly shot her from behind, and the bullet entered her brain.
A local sheriff announced on Sunday that the teen had died of her injuries in a Memphis hospital. It was unclear how the boy obtained the gun.
It is also unclear what consequences the nine-year-old will face.
"He's just nine," Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told the Clarion Ledger.
"I assume he's seen this on video games or TV. I don't know if he knew exactly what this would do. I can't answer that. I do know it's a tragedy."
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The children's mother was in another room, feeding other children lunch at the time of the incident.
Police are still investigating the circumstances of the shooting, including how the weapon - a .25 calibre handgun - was accessed.
"This is all new ground for us, we've never dealt with a kid shooting a kid at age nine," Sheriff Cantrell told local press.

[WickedWillis]

Really didn’t want to start a new thread for this. Tragic headline with a story that leave a lot of questions.

Video console death: US boy, 9, 'kills sister, 13, over controller'

A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi has died after allegedly being shot by her nine-year-old brother over a video game, police say.
They said the boy grabbed a gun on Saturday afternoon after his sister would not give up the controller.
He allegedly shot her from behind, and the bullet entered her brain.
A local sheriff announced on Sunday that the teen had died of her injuries in a Memphis hospital. It was unclear how the boy obtained the gun.
It is also unclear what consequences the nine-year-old will face.
"He's just nine," Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told the Clarion Ledger.
"I assume he's seen this on video games or TV. I don't know if he knew exactly what this would do. I can't answer that. I do know it's a tragedy."
US students in mass walkout for gun reform
Trump drops calls to raise guns age limit
One shooting, two Americas
The children's mother was in another room, feeding other children lunch at the time of the incident.
Police are still investigating the circumstances of the shooting, including how the weapon - a .25 calibre handgun - was accessed.
"This is all new ground for us, we've never dealt with a kid shooting a kid at age nine," Sheriff Cantrell told local press.

As someone who played violent video games as a kid, and grew up with guns in the house, it's neither of those factors. There is no parenting or accountability for anything anymore.

[ramairthree]

I was 9 years old in the middle of the 70s in a rural area. Everyone had shot a gun by that age. You went to your hunter safety and shooting course so you could get your license at ten years old.

You knew guns killed stuff. For real. Forever.

God forbid you did something you were not allowed to or unsafe with a gun.
Hell, Hunter safety kids were usually getting at grownups for unsafe stuff.

And guns were not locked up in safes with separate ammo lock boxes and stuff.

Guns were far more readily available and accessible.
That’s why there was so much more crime, violence, and mass killings, and kids killing other kids.
Wait.

Actually, let’s see. Guns more available, kids rougher at recess, more bullying, no helmets, no participation trophies, more drinking and smoking, less kids with psychiatric and medical ailments, less divorces, weird people keeping their weird shit on the downlow instead of wanting everyone to embrace it, no airbags, nobody using seatbelts, less people on welfare, so safety labels on everything, and it was horrible.

You could fly to Europe on supersonic flights, astronauts did more than pose for pictures, TVs worked for decades, high school kids with part time jobs could buy really cool fairly new cars, and you went to fairs with live bands playing at night and high school girls and women got down dressed and dancing like this-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIpyox7xAx0

I couldn’t wait to grow up.

But when I did cars were shitty, you needed helmets, seatbelts, stewardess became ugly bitches and flaming guys, they want all kids on meds, everyone is sick with some special disease, everyone needs special treatment, and it is nowhere near as fun as I thought it was going to be and they want my guns to boot.

[MountainRaven]

Actually, let’s see. Guns more available, kids rougher at recess, more bullying, no helmets, no participation trophies, more drinking and smoking, less kids with psychiatric and medical ailments, less divorces, weird people keeping their weird shit on the downlow instead of wanting everyone to embrace it, no airbags, nobody using seatbelts, less people on welfare, so safety labels on everything, and it was horrible.

You could fly to Europe on supersonic flights, astronauts did more than pose for pictures, TVs worked for decades, high school kids with part time jobs could buy really cool fairly new cars, and you went to fairs with live bands playing at night and high school girls and women got down dressed and dancing like this-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIpyox7xAx0

This generation raised... got divorced... determined the safety standards... established the medical practices... set the hiring practices... that govern...

But when I did cars were shitty, you needed helmets, seatbelts, stewardess became ugly bitches and flaming guys, they want all kids on meds, everyone is sick with some special disease, everyone needs special treatment, and it is nowhere near as fun as I thought it was going to be and they want my guns to boot.

This generation.

You guys really screwed up, huh?

[Averageman]

You guys really screwed up, huh?

Nothing has disappointed me more than my own generation.
If we had examples to learn from they were LBJ and Tricky Dick Nixon, so we elected Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter just to prove Freedom needed another bite of that same kind of Shi+ Sandwich.
We sold ourselves out pretty damned cheap. When we had the opportunity to go full freedom, instead we sold out to a different brand of the same ineptitude and greedy bastards our parents did.
Yeah, it's kind of shameful because we have our kids a legacy of stooopid and got Obama as some kind of electoral karma.

[Diamondback]

Nothing has disappointed me more than my own generation.
If we had examples to learn from they were LBJ and Tricky Dick Nixon, so we elected Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter just to prove Freedom needed another bite of that same kind of Shi+ Sandwich.
We sold ourselves out pretty damned cheap. When we had the opportunity to go full freedom, instead we sold out to a different brand of the same ineptitude and greedy bastards our parents did.
Yeah, it's kind of shameful because we have our kids a legacy of stooopid and got Obama as some kind of electoral karma.

OTOH, in between you had my generation, who our first Presidential election participation saw George W. inaugurated, and the generation who Rucked Up as new enlistees post-9/11. Sadly, our kid siblings appear to need a collective boot to the head to knock the cobwebs loose... unfortunately, with my generation's age I'm gonna have to start rethinking the Rule of 40* pretty soon.
*As in, "Never trust or date anyone under the age of..."