Allowing a child to shoot at a shooting range is child abuse, and should be illegal. (They can't go into the gym, but they can shoot a gun?)

Sep 2, 2014 · 6:47 PM UTC

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@SaraBethSimon knives will always kill more than guns due to the specifics of our culture of violence & I first fired a rifle with my school
@SaraBethSimon so long as a state may arm itself so must its people. So long as the state coerces so too will its people. Violence begets...
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@SaraBethSimon @marwilliamson @MMFlint who many of y countrymen accuse of being the sharp end of a fascist regime with an ulterior motive.
@SaraBethSimon @marwilliamson @MMFlint I don't think it was particularly good for me & am glad I never enlisted: the point of the "lesson"
@SaraBethSimon @marwilliamson @MMFlint stats don't alter the fact that it is the anthropology of violence not it's methods that is central.
@SaraBethSimon @marwilliamson @MMFlint I think it has to be admitted that USA has a uniquely twisted relationship with the gun.
@SaraBethSimon its psychology, its sociology, its pathology, its human form not simply its material means.
@SaraBethSimon the uzi was Darwin award, pure idiocy. However, teaching marksmanship is not the same as cultivating violent personas.
@SaraBethSimon I could have turned a machine gun on my teachers at 14, I didn't. Frankly, sex is more dangerous: I knew how the gun worked.
@SaraBethSimon no, I would trust supervised marksmanship with a suitable firearm & not over react to an industrial accident.
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