I don’t quite understand why that make such a big deal over the number of them. It’s not like they’re some 20 armed Hindu god, you can only carry and operate so many at one time.
Because it speaks to the mindset of the family. They have better than $20,000 dollars worth of guns and ammo strewn around the house and hanging on the walls as decorations. They are gun fetishists and have clearly passed on that mindset to their child.
The question is how does a 13 year old child have access to 23 guns. At least in the article it makes it sound like they were his. Obviously he shouldn’t have access to any*, but the number does bring to focus just how fucked that household is.
*in a healthy household, teaching a child of that age to fire a .22LR long gun at the range is not uncommon or unreasonable. It’s traditional. I learned to fire them in summer camp I think at 10 or 11 (granted it was like 1980 or so.)
Exactly. A couple of locked guns is normal. One or two being discovered unlocked is a problem that good parents treat as an absolute emergency. 23 unlocked firearms is absolute negligence
Probably the same reason the media does most things, it gets clicks.
I agree with you though, I know people that have a huge number of guns, but they collect them, and it doesn’t make them any more dangerous than some guy with 2 unless they’re trying to arm a group of people with old hunting rifles and weirdly specific revolvers of all different calibers.
I don’t quite understand why that make such a big deal over the number of them. It’s not like they’re some 20 armed Hindu god, you can only carry and operate so many at one time.
you don’t remember the Vegas shooting incident, do you?
Because it speaks to the mindset of the family. They have better than $20,000 dollars worth of guns and ammo strewn around the house and hanging on the walls as decorations. They are gun fetishists and have clearly passed on that mindset to their child.
The question is how does a 13 year old child have access to 23 guns. At least in the article it makes it sound like they were his. Obviously he shouldn’t have access to any*, but the number does bring to focus just how fucked that household is.
*in a healthy household, teaching a child of that age to fire a .22LR long gun at the range is not uncommon or unreasonable. It’s traditional. I learned to fire them in summer camp I think at 10 or 11 (granted it was like 1980 or so.)
Allowing a kid to use tools that were designed to actively kill things is not healthy, no matter the household.
Do we also allow kids to use grenades? Drive trucks on public roads? Why not buy sex toys from a sex shop?
Exactly. A couple of locked guns is normal. One or two being discovered unlocked is a problem that good parents treat as an absolute emergency. 23 unlocked firearms is absolute negligence
Probably the same reason the media does most things, it gets clicks. I agree with you though, I know people that have a huge number of guns, but they collect them, and it doesn’t make them any more dangerous than some guy with 2 unless they’re trying to arm a group of people with old hunting rifles and weirdly specific revolvers of all different calibers.