Apparently, CNN (who? I dunno, never heard of them either) seems to have a problem with Dads buying their kids guns for Christmas:
CNN began the article with a story of an Oregon dad, Paul Kemp, who bought a hunting rifle for his son, Nathan, when he turned 16 years old. Nathan had been hunting with his dad since he was 7 years old.
CNN then stated, “Parents looking to purchase a firearm for their child for the holidays have to balance their hopes for the gift with the risks that come with such a purchase, such as an accidental shooting, suicide or the gun being used in a crime.”
In an attempt to bolster their position, CNN said, “For example, the teenage school shooting suspects in Oxford, Michigan, and Winder, Georgia, allegedly used firearms they had received as Christmas gifts from their parents, and those parents have faced criminal charges.”
I don’t want to get into dueling statistics here, but I just wonder how many deaths have been caused by teenagers getting into road accidents with cars given them by their parents?
Never mind; giving guns to our kids for Christmas is a tradition that goes back generations, as these few ads prove:
Of course, as the Left hates the very concepts of both tradition and the family with a passion, these would be seen as pure evil.
Me, I just wish we could see more of them, updated for today’s market.
And I absolutely love this one:
…because as any fule kno, every man should have owned at least one Mauser in his lifetime.
Liberal idiots are of the mind that guns are bad for anyone other than government to have and kids especially should not learn about those evil guns.
Liberals do find is acceptable to teach kids about trannies (both types, chicks with dicks, and snatches with snap on’s) and also how coat hangering the uterus is acceptable any time you don’t feel like having a kid. Kids then learn that Fossil fuels are bad and battery and solar powered everything will be the alleged solution. Icing on the cake is liberals telling kids that all hard working people are bad for wanting to keep the money they earn and their money should be stolen and wealth redistributed to freeloaders. Finally, illegals are not illegal as “no human is illegal on stolen land”
But again, guns are bad and children especially should learn only that guns should be very controlled and almost impossible to obtain.
Liberalism is a mental illness.
Many news agencies spread and promote being infected by liberalism.
Trump is coming back next month to give this country a much needed enema.
FUCK THE LIBERALS!
Christmas? nope 14th Birthday — along with probably half the other Farm boys in my class at school.
Mine was at age 9 — but that was an air rifle. At around 12, my dad stopped worrying about me shooting the Winchester 63 .22… the joys of a large property.
“ I don’t want to get into dueling statistics here, but I just wonder how many deaths have been caused by teenagers getting into road accidents with cars given them by their parents?”
Just a little satire?
Cars Kill People
America is a nation that has 247 million automobiles. Every year, there are approximately 5.2 million accidents in America, and 33,000 of these accidents are fatal. 93 people a day die in car accidents in America. Every 60 seconds, an accident occurs in America. In the United States, car accidents are the number one killer of teenagers.
I think we need to make schools, courthouses, post offices and all federal buildings car free zones. Cars kill people and we can’t afford to have them in these environments. Since cars kill teenagers, no teenager should be able to drive or ride in a car. Also, the parents of teenagers should not be able to drive or ride in a car, since a teenager could get access to the car.
What about criminals? Criminals use cars to kill. If we ban cars, criminals won’t be able to get their hands on cars. Criminals always stop using something if it is banned. Criminals are good at following laws. I expect that if we ban cars, criminals will turn in the cars they already have, and never ever buy or steal any cars in the future. We need to stop criminals from obtaining or using cars to kill by banning automobiles.
Action can no longer wait. We must come together, and act right now. We must ban automobiles in order to save lives. Lets not let the tragedies of car accidents ever kill again in America! Lets stop the madness now! We need stricter laws on who can buy, use, and have access to cars.
We have all these car accidents, and people still want more cars! People want new cars, people want a second car, and new drivers want a car. There are all these car accidents and people keep saying they want more cars! They say the answer is more cars! What nonsense! America has a sickness! America is addicted to cars!
America, it is time for sensible automobile laws. Stand with me!
I am even considering starting a new support group – People Against Cars. Cuz even one automobile accident death is too many.
We need common sense car control now!
Ah, fantasy land… What a wonderful place to live. The land where there are easy solutions to difficult problems, the land where space cookies are the preferred snack, and the land where common sense is optional.
I agree the old ads are cool. And I’d enjoy seeing modern day ads
Question is other than hobbyist magazines what lame stream main stream rag a zine magazine would let normal stuff to be printed?
Most all of the modern magazines and lie witness news papers are liberal rags.
Videos are out. The computer tube of you bans tons of shit and mask book, well that site is a fucking clown show too.
Maybe X is the right platform while Elon owns it? Formerly twitter. No censorship there for now. Rumble is another option for now.
What do you think?
If it weren’t for the word “allegedly” places like CNN wouldn’t exist.
In the lame stream media the word “allegedly” is tantamount to “Once upon a time…”
Headline should read: “You’ll shoot your eye out!”
Teens in cars are a way bigger problem.
It seems to be a thing around here that dad buys the kid the car he wishes he had at 16. Not long after, there are flowers on the side of the road where he wrecked it, killing or maiming his friends. I’m 61, and I think there were two or three accidents like that in my high school senior year.
There was a road by my old house in Plano – Park rd, straight as an arrow for the most part. And not a mile from the high school, flowers where some dumbshit kid hit the wall. Probably texting.
I don’t have a problem with giving a kid a gun and teaching them how and when to use it. My problem is that with these school shootings, they either gave a disturbed kid a gun, or didn’t lock them up when it was apparent the kid had issues.
“I don’t have a problem with giving a kid a gun and teaching them how and when to use it. My problem is that with these school shootings, they either gave a disturbed kid a gun, or didn’t lock them up when it was apparent the kid had issues.”
Yup. That’s the truth the media won’t get into. Liberals ignore this
The standard prescription fro liberals for disturbed sickos (of all ages not just kids) is to restrict guns for good people.
Then you have a situation where innocent people don’t have a way to protect themselves in certain places.
Guns should be allowed everywhere period. I’m not saying guns will stop all maniacs from starting shit, however, the sicko won’t get 20 or 30 deep. After a few the good people will extinguish the sick asshole and solve the problem.
The way the liberals think with gun laws would be amount to banning airbags and seatbelts in busy traffic because they are used during bad accidents.
Liberals are truly fucking stupid.
Love that last add too, just don’t buy from Mitchell’s. Obscenely over priced schlock. They bought cheap surplus rifles by the bushel, stripped the wood and metal, refinished everything, then assembled mix-master guns for sale. Advertised them as pristine, new, original, collectable Mauser’s. They’re OK as shooters, but that’s all. I think Mitchell’s is long gone now as their sources dried up.
Dad being a gun collector, trader, dealer wasn’t too worried.
9-Daisy BB gun, 10-Sheridan Air Rifle, 12-20ga shotgun single, 13-22 Winchester 490 22 semi auto, 14-Winchester 1300 20 ga, 16-Remington 1100 20ga slug barrel/modified barrel, 18-Winchester 88 in 308 (later taken back because we didn’t use them for hunting slugs only you know), 20-Pre 64 Model 70 30-06 custom stocked. After that I bought plenty from him. Still use the Model 70 for deer season as do both my brothers use theirs.
I’m of two minds on this. Not really, but I’ll try to explain below:
I never received a firearm/bb gun whatever from my Parents. They were conservative in almost all the strictest sense’s, but my folks were just not into guns. Dad had a couple, they stayed in the closet, we went out shooting…..once.
My brother and I however got bit by the bug, over the years, before regional flooding broke my heart, I amassed quite a collection. Neither of us were big hunters, but enjoyed recreational shooting. In my case a lot of my former chattels, were historical, because for some reason that resonated with me.
As an older gent now with 4 adult chidrens, I look at the remnants that survived the flood, and look at the overall quality of my offspring and step-offspring, and think WTF.
1 out of the 4 is worth a damn. 2 of them are chasing purple hair-type bullshit, and just as likely to shoot up a church, or blow their own brains out. 1 is a good shot, but never would leave the apartment, and computer screen.
Therefore there is no mystique in my world about Dad gifting a generational firearm to his progeny. In fact if I have anything to do with it, “worth a damn, Daughter” is going to inherit my entire estate, and the rest of the batch can go live in “stack a prole” apartments hoping for Bernie Sanders to come save them.
Tried to be sentimental about my kiddo’s. Reality & behavior is dictating otherwise.
Nice reminder that I probably need to take an inventory and write down the approximate value of each piece. Then of course hide the list, only to be read after my death. That way the wife won’t try to sell them for what I claimed to have paid. Depending on the state of the world at that point, I’d suggest they keep the two or three pieces that actually have sentimental value, keep whatever they want for TEOTWAWKI times, and sell the rest to buy booze. Most of mine are just range toys anyway.
The Progressive Establishment’s knowledge of history is distorted to begin with, and drops rapidly to a few vague (and mostly incorrect) impressions once you go back before WWII. I am reminded of the ‘experiment’ some idiots conceived where a group of people were supposed to try living as the pioneers did…but they weren’t supposed to hunt. Needless to say the experiment was called off due to incipient starvation.
Guns for Christmas strikes me as likely to be a fairly modern idea…because farther back young boys would be expected to have guns as soon as their fathers thought they were ready to help supplement tge family diet with fresh squirrel, or could be trusted to help deal with the local varmint population. In that age, a gun was a tool, not a piece of recreational equipment.
One of the first guns I ever shot was a Glenfield (Marlin) .22 boltie. My son inherited that same rifle from my uncle’s estate. Great shooting rifle and a whole lot of plinking fun. I have a picture of my uncle receiving it for his 16th birthday back in 1966. Unfortunately…he is no longer with us.
My dad had three guns when I was growing up. A Ruger single action .22 revolver, a Glenfield .22 boltie, and a JC Higgins 12ga pump that previously belonged to his grandfather. My son now owns the shotgun. My dad gave it to me for my 13th birthday, and I gave it to my son for his 13th.
My Dad never gave me anything except a strong work ethic. However, when I was 12, he allowed me the opportunity to purchase a lightly used Ithaca Model 37 20 gauge shotgun for $80. Every cent of that was money I earned. He showed me how to load it, shoot it and clean it. I got a lot of quail and a few pheasants with that gun.
I don’t have any sons, and my two stepsons are scared of spiders, guns and a sink load of dirty dishes, so it would be wasted on them. I gave it to my BIL’s son, who hunts for food and sport, but mostly for food. The look on his face when I gave it too him was all the thanks I’ll ever need.
I have a couple of Remington .22s in the gun safe, one from each of those ads. They aren’t my only .22s, but they are among the nicest.
I grew up in a family that didn’t shoot or hunt. My wife bought me a S&W model 19-2 (I forget the dash number) one year for Christmas. It has a 2-1/2″ barrel and its trigger is incredible.