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This makes me really queasy, and I'm a gun owner.

[femmocrat]

1. That is just sickening.

Sorry.

[Ohiogal]

2. I couldn't bring myself to watch the whole thing .... ugh

[procon]

3. Jeebus H. Crisco, what have they done to that

poor child? At a tender and impressionable age, her parents have brainwashed her and turned the girl into a zealot, a brainless gun clinger.

My first thought was the case contained some beautiful musical instrument that she had been wishing for and she was overjoyed with happiness. It never, ever, occurred to me that there was a gun inside until she pulled out the rifle stock.

I could have wept.

[Codeine]

12. Dude, come on.

I owned a gun way younger than this kid and I’m not a gunhumper. You know nothing of this child’s life or interests and you have no idea whatsoever how her beliefs will evolve over the course of growing up.

I own one really old Russian WW2 gun that doesn’t even have ammunition and which I’ve never fired; damn thing might not even work anymore. I only own it because I like old things. Having a rifle as a kid didn’t impact my life at all.

Histrionic overreactions aren’t useful in any way.

[procon]

13. You don't need to make excuses for owning a gun,

that isn't the primary issue. Rather it was that child's overwrought, bizzare emotional response, the tears and sobs as shes gushing over a gun and fondling it like it was a living thing.

That does not seem like a healthy behavior for any kid, but there she was, ecstatically adoring her gun like most kids would love on a new puppy. That gun was the most important thing in her world. How did that happen?

[Codeine]

15. She's a kid. They get that way about everything.

My kid cried over a new ukulele (which, incidentally, she never learned to play.) Teenagers are nuts.

[melm00se]

4. Kim Rhode probably started at that age

at 13 she won her first world championship title in women's double trap shooting.

Gold medals at 1996 Olympics, 2004 Olympics, 2012 Olympics as well at other medals at other Olympics, Pan American games and World Championships

https://www.teamusa.org/Athletes/RH/Kimberly-Rhode.aspx

But of course she is a gunhumper
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[Takket]

5. and herein lies part of the problem.....

the minute we stopped thinking about guns as tools just like we would a hammer or a screwdriver, is when they became part of the culture wars. Now having a gun for many right wingers is a CULTURAL thing just like apple pie and baseball. So we flood our children and our homes with weapons because it is just part of growing up now.......... and we're shocked when gun violence spirals out of control.

[magicarpet]

6. Ill informed angry young white males pumped full of racism, bigotry, and Fascism are the real danger

Toxic masculinity run amok.

[smirkymonkey]

7. This is just sickening.

Giving a weapon like that to a young child is a sign of poor parenting and even child abuse.

The fact that she was so overjoyed to receive it tells you that her parents raised her with values that are completely out of whack.

How long before she or one of her siblings accidentally or even intentionally murders somebody with that weapon? Putting guns into the hands of children is always a stupid idea!

[UniteFightBack]

8. Do we encourage children to run around with scissors? The only time these folks might change

their mind is if tragedy reaches their front door. We all know they are not going to care or change otherwise.

[treestar]

9. Could be for target shooting

or even hunting. Can't tell how old she is. But she may have a hobby. It looks like a rifle.

[sarisataka]

10. Shotgun I believe

I thought I saw a unlock lever that would indicate it is a double barrel. If so it is very likely she shoots trap or skeet.

I need more than a one minute video to judge the child and her family.

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14. It was her emotional, overwrought reaction to it. As I said in my OP, I'm a gun owner. My dad

was a cop and taught me to respect guns before I could walk and taught me to shoot when I was 8. Not once did I attach any emotion to them. They are tools--dangerous tools, not some object of adoration.

[Codeine]

11. I'm the gentlest person you could hope to meet,

a shy, kind, easy-going vegan. I got my first gun (a bolt action .22) when I was about 8 and was allowed to use it unsupervised at 10. I don’t believe the mere presence of a firearm is an inherent evil, or “sickening” in any way.

It’s not how we’ve raised our kids, obviously, but a well-brought-up child raised to handle guns responsibly doesn’t worry me. Fucked-up boys raised by the internet in possession of firearms is a whole different issue. I don’t think this little girl qualifies as a potential threat.