Comments on: Swearer: It Was Objectively Reckless to Give an AR-15 to a Mentally Ill Adolescent https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/swearer-it-was-objectively-reckless-to-give-an-ar-15-to-a-mentally-ill-adolescent/ Sun, 08 Sep 2024 23:05:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Paul https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/swearer-it-was-objectively-reckless-to-give-an-ar-15-to-a-mentally-ill-adolescent/comment-page-1/#comment-8731 Sun, 08 Sep 2024 23:05:54 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=12155#comment-8731 Shooting never should have happened. Parents have to understand they need to keep their weapons out of their children’s hands. The A.R . Pistol & Knife will not kill anyone. It’s a evil person with a dark heart & sick mind that will kill. Not a weapon. So wrong to remove weapons from law abiding citizens. Not your answer. Just have all adults be adults and be the responsible gun owners they are supposed to be. Can’t blame things used to take lives. Put all the blame on the ones who do the crime. And in ending this remember cars don’t drive drunk, pencils don’t misspell words s forks don’t make people fat. And guns not kill. Only people kill people.

]]> By: Paul https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/swearer-it-was-objectively-reckless-to-give-an-ar-15-to-a-mentally-ill-adolescent/comment-page-1/#comment-8698 Sun, 08 Sep 2024 13:04:24 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=12155#comment-8698 I can’t say she’s wrong, that’s for sure. The kid was investigated for making a threat to shoot up a school. The father knew that. The father knew a lot of things that none of us knows. Father assured a sheriff’s deputy that the kid didn’t have access to guns. He stuck up for his kid when the deputy interviewed them. Red Flag laws are generally wrong, because they don’t offer due process – but Mom and Dad aren’t required to do due process.

Neither can I assess ‘mental illness’. But it seems pretty obvious from everything we’ve read that this kid’s head was screwed on wrong. The FBI failed, the sheriff’s department failed, the schools failed, and worst of all, the parents failed. Everyone in this kid’s life failed. Well . . . maybe not his grandmother and an aunt. Reports indicate that they were actually trying to get him psychiatric help? There are questions about his – uhhh – “sexual orientation”. I can’t possibly say if those articles are accurate, but multiple articles seem to establish that his classmates called him gay.

This is a totally screwed up story – and I put primary blame on parents, secondary on the FBI. The FBI identified him as a potential shooter, and never followed up.

]]> By: Darkman https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/swearer-it-was-objectively-reckless-to-give-an-ar-15-to-a-mentally-ill-adolescent/comment-page-1/#comment-8679 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:22:53 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=12155#comment-8679 In reply to Neocons for Harris.

Yahtzee…Especially Liberal Progressive democrats who believe people can decide what sex they want to be and think that it is okay to take the lives of babies. Simply because they are inconvenient to someone’s preferred Lifestyle choice.

]]> By: Nanashi https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/swearer-it-was-objectively-reckless-to-give-an-ar-15-to-a-mentally-ill-adolescent/comment-page-1/#comment-8678 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:01:01 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=12155#comment-8678 “there might be some fact-specific scenarios in which some minors might reasonably be given some limited access to firearms”

And with this kind of desperation to make prohibitions on human rights the norm, she looks like a statest thug who will sell natural rights away for pottage. Should be no place in Heritage foundation for her.

]]> By: Hush https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/swearer-it-was-objectively-reckless-to-give-an-ar-15-to-a-mentally-ill-adolescent/comment-page-1/#comment-8674 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 16:36:00 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=12155#comment-8674 Hindsight is 20/20. No matter how this is portrayed it is evident the dad made some bad decisions.
The left hollers “common sense”. It is this type of not so common sense that gives the left cause to further defame the POTG.
A needless and avoidable tragedy. Sad indeed.

]]> By: Neocons for Harris https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/swearer-it-was-objectively-reckless-to-give-an-ar-15-to-a-mentally-ill-adolescent/comment-page-1/#comment-8667 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 14:48:53 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=12155#comment-8667 I like this concept of restricting the liberties of people who are “mentally and emotionally struggling.”
Perhaps we can extend the idea to voting?

]]> By: LifeSavor https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/swearer-it-was-objectively-reckless-to-give-an-ar-15-to-a-mentally-ill-adolescent/comment-page-1/#comment-8666 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 14:46:17 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=12155#comment-8666 Those of us who have lived through the painful, debilitating impact of having a family member with severe mental illness, know first-hand how the entire family is worn down, how judgement can be impaired, and how emotions can be mis-handled.

We all know this kid should not have had unrestricted access to any firearm….and I am NOT saying the father is blameless…just that, unless you have lived in that sick-family syndrome, it may be difficult to understand how this happened, and too easy to simply blame the Dad.

Me, I would have gotten that kid out of public school and into home schooling with some carefully selected extra curricular activities.

]]> By: Dad https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/swearer-it-was-objectively-reckless-to-give-an-ar-15-to-a-mentally-ill-adolescent/comment-page-1/#comment-8665 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 13:41:49 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=12155#comment-8665 I’d have to agree with her.

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