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[Sundae]

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Wanna buy some prawns?

A TRAILER used to steal £60,000 of North-east shellfish has been found – 369 miles away in Bolton

[Gravdigr]

I never buy used shrimp.

Is that shellfish of me?

[footfootfoot]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/06...-kills-sister/

A Kentucky woman gave her 5-year-old son a .22 caliber Crickett brand rifle for his birthday. This resulted in the 5-year-old killing his 2-year-old sister, Caroline Sparks.

Sparks left her son unattended with the rifle when he fatally shot his baby sister. Believing that a “child safety” was all that was necessary to keep the child safe from accidentally firing the weapon, the rifle was kept unlocked in a “safe place.” WTF is a child safety?

The clearly stupid and unacquainted with gun safes or trigger locks uncle of the victim said, “It’s just tragic. It’s something that you can’t prepare for.”

The grandmother of the children, Linda Riddle, unversed in simple concepts like "cause and effect" told WLEX, “It was God’s will. It was her time to go, I guess. I just know she’s in heaven right now and I know she’s in good hands with the Lord.”

Kentucky police trooper said that, “It’s just one of those nightmares,” he said, “a quick thing that happens when you turn your back. In this part of the country, it’s not uncommon for a 5-year-old to have a gun or for a parent to pass one down to their kid.”

The rifle that was used was a “My First Rifle” Cricket rifle, designed and marketed as a toy for children.

Rifle ≠ Toy

Darwin is doing a victory dance...

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

It's not often, but, occasionally it's fun to be surrounded by Kentuckians.

Most of the time it's people like those in Foot's post...

[Gravdigr]

I am familiar with the Crickett rifle.

They are not marketed as toys.

They are genuine firearms, and are marketed as such. They are subject to the same rules and regulations.

What we have here is a family of fucking stupid people.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I am familiar with the Crickett rifle.

They are not marketed as toys.

They are genuine firearms, and are marketed as such. They are subject to the same rules and regulations.

What we have here is a family of fucking stupid people.

You're right, it's not marketed as a toy. That was some asshole reporter's interpretation of marketing to kids. There is an inflammatory mother jones article trying to show how Crickett is a big bad company marketing guns to kids as though guns were cigarettes or heroin. Ironically, everyone of the supposedly damning photos they lifted as evidence from Crickett's site are photos of kids handling guns SAFELY!

The horror.

Meanwhile, the real problem in this country, a government completely owned by corporations and nearly all the country's wealth funneled to an inversely proprotionate number of people, goes unnoticed because of non issues taking up the airwaves.

[chrisinhouston]

I still have an Ithaca 22 caliber single shot rifle that my dad gave me when I was 8 (I think). It looks like a Winchester style but when you pull down the lever it opens the receiver and you can only put in one shell, there is no magazine. And after closing the breech you have to physically pull back the hammer to engage it to fire, it isn't automatically done like the repeating rifles of the old west. That gun was given to me in about 1965 and I shot it a lot when we moved to Atlanta, Georgia as we lived at that time in a more remote rural area (now part of the city). I taught my kids how to shoot with it as well and will probably teach my grankids to shoot targets with it, the gun is very accurate and as it is one shot only I feel it is a safer beginner's rifle.

That being said, the kids get a lot of instruction before they ever shoot.

When I got this rifle back in the mid 60's we lived in Roslyn, NY on Long Island and my older sister took a marksmanship class in High School and got an NRA certificate for accuracy from the class. I don't imagine they offer that class any more.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by chrisinhouston

I still have an Ithaca 22 caliber single shot rifle that my dad gave me when I was 8 (I think). It looks like a Winchester style but when you pull down the lever it opens the receiver and you can only put in one shell, there is no magazine. And after closing the breech you have to physically pull back the hammer to engage it to fire, it isn't automatically done like the repeating rifles of the old west. That gun was given to me in about 1965 and I shot it a lot when we moved to Atlanta, Georgia as we lived at that time in a more remote rural area (now part of the city). I taught my kids how to shoot with it as well and will probably teach my grankids to shoot targets with it, the gun is very accurate and as it is one shot only I feel it is a safer beginner's rifle.

That being said, the kids get a lot of instruction before they ever shoot.

When I got this rifle back in the mid 60's we lived in Roslyn, NY on Long Island and my older sister took a marksmanship class in High School and got an NRA certificate for accuracy from the class. I don't imagine they offer that class any more.

That is the kind of sanity I remember and associate with responsible gun ownership. I'm pretty sure you're right about not offering that class...

[anonymous]

Chris that sounds a lot like my first gun, right around the same age.

Mine was a Revelation (made by Savage) in .22, that had a trap door in the top of the receiver (is that what they called a dropping, or falling block?). Faux tube magazine. Still have mine, too. It's been the end of many a squrl.

- Savage Arms -
Revelation Westfield, Mass. U.S.A. Model 103
Cal .22 Short, Long & Long Rifle

[Griff]

Originally Posted by chrisinhouston

I still have an Ithaca 22 caliber single shot rifle that my dad gave me when I was 8 (I think). It looks like a Winchester style but when you pull down the lever it opens the receiver and you can only put in one shell, there is no magazine. And after closing the breech you have to physically pull back the hammer to engage it to fire, it isn't automatically done like the repeating rifles of the old west. That gun was given to me in about 1965 and I shot it a lot when we moved to Atlanta, Georgia as we lived at that time in a more remote rural area (now part of the city). I taught my kids how to shoot with it as well and will probably teach my grankids to shoot targets with it, the gun is very accurate and as it is one shot only I feel it is a safer beginner's rifle.

That being said, the kids get a lot of instruction before they ever shoot.

When I got this rifle back in the mid 60's we lived in Roslyn, NY on Long Island and my older sister took a marksmanship class in High School and got an NRA certificate for accuracy from the class. I don't imagine they offer that class any more.

I carried what I think was a borrowed .32 Winchester set up the same way early in my hunting career.

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, no, no, they'll never get that rifle past the hall monitors/stoolies.
Get the wee ones a small caliber semi and show 'em how to hold it in the best way to intimidate classmates outta their lunch money.

[Gravdigr]

Now I'm even more depressed than I was.

[anonymous]

I've thought about having it re-blued and a real finish put on the wood, but, I think I kinda like it this way, I can still take it into the woods if I want.

[Gravdigr]

As of today [July 7, 2014], no charges have been filed against Guldschmitt.

God bless you, Josef Guldschmitt.

And, you, you-fucking-piece-of-shit-who's-name-I-won't-print?

I'll show your face though:



Goddamn you to hell.

[BigV]

tl;dr:

two wrongs don't make a right.

slightly longer version:

I'm glad the woman got out while the getting was good. Of course, there's no guarantee that she's safe from this violent asshole, but it appears there's some distance between them; good. I feel bad for the dog, he's innocent. I don't feel so bad for the dog beater, there is a certain satisfying symmetry to what's happened. But! I don't feel *safer* knowing there's some guy out there that tracks down people to inflict the same pain that they've inflicted on others. Oh, and "I really wanted him to die. If I could have found my pliers, I would have twisted his scrotum off too." No, the dog got hurt unfairly, cruelly, but such a beatdown is NOT justified.

We have laws for this kind of circumstance. And the deterrent effect on a future attacker is likely to be zero. Maybe not even this guy, he strikes me as the kind that stores up hurts, incubates them until they're ready to be given back or paid forward once they've had a chance to grow.