Wackos and Tyranny

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A father gives his 11 year old son a .22 rifle for his birthday. The kids is BEAMING! They take a picture and post it on Facebook. All hell breaks loose.

Neighbors (wakos) call Child Protective services claiming this somehow is child endangerment. Police show up demanding to examine the contents of the father's gun safe, no warrant produced. Lawyers called. A kids happy day destroyed by idiots and the freedoms of an entire nation degraded.

Incidents like this will continue and will likely increase as the government and press continue their chorus of lies about firearms. The panic is growing. Neighbor turning in neighbor is what they are after and it is what they are getting.

I linked the story below. For some reason I could not get it to copy and paste to get it in here.


Read more at: Family says NJ overreacted to boy's gun photo | MonroeNews.com

 

[LDB]

Stupidity on the part of the state for certain but also stupidity on the part of the family to post that photo online. There's always some idiot to see it and get stupid about it.

 

[runrunner]

Yea, I call it the Communist State of New Jersey!

 

[xiggi]

No where does it say neighbors called.

 

[mohawk]

smh......one of my fondest memories is getting my first marlin model 60 .22lr for my 6th birthday.

And i wouldn't hesitate to post a pic of something i was proud of on my Facebook. Sounds like that family needs to reevaluate who their friends are.

 

[cheri1122]

As LDB says, it was stupid of the family to post the photo of an 11 year old holding what appears to be an assault [not a typical hunting] rifle. Given the high profile school shootings in the news, what did they expect?
Law enforcement monitors facebook too, and they love catching idiots that way. Child protective services is a tough balancing act, ****ed if they do, ****ed if they don't.

 

[skyraider]

As LDB says, it was stupid of the family to post the photo of an 11 year old holding what appears to be an assault [not a typical hunting] rifle. Given the high profile school shootings in the news, what did they expect?
Law enforcement monitors facebook too, and they love catching idiots that way. Child protective services is a tough balancing act, ****ed if they do, ****ed if they don't.

I like those little asstor ricks, gives it a nice touch,imho,lol. I will be reporting this to the American Dickshionaary Society soon.......................

 

[LDB]

As LDB says, it was stupid of the family to post the photo of an 11 year old holding what appears to be an assault [not a typical hunting] rifle.

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And, if you manage to get past the dozen formatting commands, therein lies a large part of the problem, the ignorance of the general public toward firearms. The photo shows an 11 year old holding a semi-automatic hunting rifle. Assault weapons are capable of being set to fully automatic fire. That's what makes them assault weapons, like issued to the military. Ordinary citizens, like this young man, have semi-automatic firearms. If we can ever manage to educate the population on the differences of firearms we will be much better off.

 

[cheri1122]

Per the article cited, the rifle "resembles a military style assault weapon", and per my own experience with family members who kept rifles for hunting, that looks nothing like them.
What it resembles is all the information anyone outside the family had to work with, and they did what they thought was in the child's best interests. His stupid father did not, IMO.

 

[LDB]

Anyone, inside or outside the family, if they were educated would know there are no assault weapons owned by the public. They would know that what it "resembles" means nothing. They'd know that in spite of what it looks like it's no more an assault weapon than Pelosi and Reid are intelligent individuals. Looks are just deceiving.

 

[xiggi]

As LDB says, it was stupid of the family to post the photo of an 11 year old holding what appears to be an assault [not a typical hunting] rifle. Given the high profile school shootings in the news, what did they expect?
Law enforcement monitors facebook too, and they love catching idiots that way. Child protective services is a tough balancing act, ****ed if they do, ****ed if they don't.

There was nothing stupid about posting that picture. Once again we point the finger at the wrong thing. Just like with shootings people blame the gun. The stupid parties were the one that called it in and the officials who responded. To place blame on the family is just wrong.

 

[AMonger]

The stupid parties were the one that called it in and the officials who responded. To place blame on the family is 100% wrong.

Any stupider than disciplining a child for pointing a chicken finger like it's a gun? Any parents with their children in government schools needs their heads examined.
Any cop who looked at that picture and saw a cause for action shouldn't be a cop. Their reaction should have been, "So what? Hey lady, quit bothering us. We're busy."

 

[Tennesseahawk]

No where does it say neighbors called.

Well, it's either that, or the government has a camera on their front porch. Sometimes, things are just obvious.

 

[Tennesseahawk]

As LDB says, it was stupid of the family to post the photo of an 11 year old holding what appears to be an assault [not a typical hunting] rifle. Given the high profile school shootings in the news, what did they expect?
Law enforcement monitors facebook too, and they love catching idiots that way. Child protective services is a tough balancing act, ****ed if they do, ****ed if they don't.

Uh... the liberty to practice one of their God-given rights?

 

[Tennesseahawk]

"They said they wanted to see into my safe and see if my guns were registered," Moore said. "I said no; in New Jersey, your guns don't have to be registered with the state; it's voluntary. I knew once I opened that safe, there was no going back."

BINGO! The guy knows it!

 

[xiggi]

Well, it's either that, or the government has a camera on their front porch. Sometimes, things are just obvious.

The picture was on Facebook, much more obvious the kids friends parents or a friend of the family on Facebook called. They could live a thousand miles away. You don't even have to be on their friend list to see it.

 

[Tennesseahawk]

The picture was on Facebook, much more obvious the kids friends parents or a friend of the family on Facebook called. They could live a thousand miles away. You don't even have to be on their friend list to see it.

You pretty much have to know where they live, tho. I suppose it could be a friend or relative from FB; but I'm thinking that for the police and child services to go there, a neighbor had to have called.

 

[xiggi]

Well for most people on Facebook your first and last name is there and the town you live in. Don't think authorities need much more than that.

 

[cheri1122]

Uh... the liberty to practice one of their God-given rights?

Which is precisely what, in the end, they got. But they could have avoided the hassle had the weapon not been made to resemble a military assault rifle in a photograph displayed on facebook.
Dad had every right to give his son a rifle for hunting, if he thought the kid was ready, but why make it look like a military assault weapon, is the question.
What's the attraction: that it looks 'military', or is it the 'assault' factor? What is Dad teaching, if a hunting rifle isn't good enough?

 

[LDB]

What difference does it make what it looks like?!?!?!?!?! How about truck drivers with those giant dangerous evil looking shark teeth on their grill? Everyone knows they make a truck more dangerous and being followed by one is courting disaster. It's time to ban shark teeth grill covers because just looking that way makes them bad and makes the driver automatically reckless and dangerous. Just do it for the children.