Reply #71: "every kid should be armed with knowledge" [View All]

[iverglas]

That has just worked so excellently well in matters like, oh, teen pregnancy and STDs. Not to mention jumping off bridges and such-like structures, driving really fast, abusing alcohol, ... .

It's called risk-taking behaviour. And it's what kids do. It's a product of a long process called "evolution", and evolution just doesn't turn around when it encounters a stop sign.

It's truly amazing how many kids will actually do things that they know they're not supposed to do and they've been told might cause them harm, isn't it?

Tough shit for them. Do it and die, kid, and *then* you'll never do it again. And I suppose that some will say the gene pool will be a little improved. I'm not among them.


Is somebody seriously suggesting that these 18-year-olds did not know the first thing about the firearm they were playing with? It was 3 in the morning; is somebody seriously imagining that they were just taking a break from their social studies homework?

I'll bet they were all sober as judges, and one of them had just never seen a firearm before and had never been told not to play with firearms, and oops.

Cripes.

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