I’m all set up and ready to go…

The way those kids are handling those guns, it’s likely the parents won’t need money to send all three of them to college, because one or two of them will have a gun-related accident. “I didn’t think it was loaded . . .”

… because one or two of them will have a gun-related accident. “I didn’t think it was loaded . . .”

Natural selection. Proves Darwin was right, no matter what they think.

One of the segments at that horrifying link is “Guns are Safe and Sexy”

jesus christ. This is why this country is so fucked.

Awwwww They’re so cute.

The little girls too.

(sheessh)

Pretend I’m stupid. Is that a real picture? And if it is, how in the hell is that not illegal? Seriously. Why aren’t they drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette also?

In America, every day is Gun Appreciation Day

Yeah that gun appreciation day is going just great.

600 people showed up in Austin.

Fkng Texas, fer Dog’s sake.

I guess not that many people believe that one should not have to stop and reload, mid-massacre.

Oh, they will be, by the time they’re 12 or 13. In a sane world, that picture would be prima facie evidence of child abuse.

Think? They think?

The wiretaps and/or drones will get them before they ever have a chance of firing a shot. If they were really afraid of tyranny and the government, they’d have “thought” about where we’ve gone as a nation since 9/11.

“I didn’t think it was loaded . . .”

That’s usually what happens, alright.

I love the way the kid on the right is aiming that BIG-ASS gun at her baby sister. If I had ever had a little sister with a puss like that I’d have probably wanted to blow her head off too… It’s good to be an only child.

I’ll bet that’s next year’s Christmas card photo.

Provided all 3 of them survive until then of course; this display of parental intelligence has to make you wonder if Mommy and Daddy can rub enough brain cells together to keep everyone fed and the house from burning down.

Helen, I’m not an expert so I might be wrong here, but outside of jurisdictions where guns are more controlled than they are here in red state nirvana, I’m not sure there are laws against kids handling – and firing – guns. Or owning them, either.

In huge swaths of flyover country, kids start hunting by age 7 or 8, though I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of kids as young as 4 or 5 being out in the woods shooting at deer.

They start hunting at 7 or 8 with handguns?

I am the exact opposite of a gun person in every respect. I do think it’s rational to make some kind of distinction between the rural tradition of hunting with guns and this mania for people-killing machines, which is what those little girls are holding. The ritual of sons being taught by older males in the family how to handle hunting rifles and shotguns, and how to actually hunt for food, is very old. Whether families out in the countryside where this tradition makes some sense, now include their daughters in the rite of passage, I have no idea.

The progression of awareness/not-awareness on those 3 faces is horribly fascinating: the oldest, on the left, who looks maybe 11, is practicing what she imagines is a sexy pout-glower, like a weaponized comic-book superheroine: hormones starting to kick in, and I bet she knows what kind of images Dad and the boys at school like; the middle-grade one on the right is autonomous and cheerful, just going along with the event in a sociable way. She’s at the age, as one expert on the subject of girls growing up in our society put it, when girls “haven’t sold out”; the baby in the middle hasn’t a clue. They’re heart-breaking. And I don’t think their parents, who presumably posed and took and posted this photo, have any clue what they’re doing to them.

That is one fcuked-up picture.

Then again, they could be Swiss, so all is well (see NRA).

Many years ago a man came to our door and he and my husband went outside and talked for a long time.
My husband later told me that the man had been cleaning his gun it had gone off and he was walking around the neighborhood looking for where the bullet might have gone. He knew he had found it when, much to my husband’s surprise, the back window of the car was shattered. The bullet had gone through the passenger seat and into the dash. My youngest daughter had been in that seat about 10 minutes before when they came home. The man “thought” the gun was unloaded. Makes me hurt to think about the possibilities.

*shows off picture to neighbor*

“Ain’t no coons gonna come rob MY house! All my kids know how to handle firearms respon–”

*BOOM from inside house*
*high-pitched screaming*

“Oh my God! Oh my God! Call an ambulance!!”

Which is far more likely to happen than using it for self defense.

Gotta understand: ALL guns are loaded BY DEFINITION! If you don’t know that in your very bones, you shouldn’t be allowed to LOOK at a gun from 100 yards, let alone handle one. My grandmother was almost killed by an unloaded gun before my mother came along. I know that, and I’m not even a red neck!

Who coulda predicted:

Five Injured In Accidental Gun Show Shootings On ‘Gun Appreciation Day’

In Arizona, when you’re 10, they call it harvesting….

wait, there is more…

this cannot have a happy ending

What could possibly go wrong?

A picture of the first day of school in 2013?

Are we fuct?

Did everyone look at the link in the post? At the end of their page the good gun appreciation folks show us icons with links to 155 sponsors by my count, everyone from Men Who Support Women Against Gun Control (we are behind you all the way, baby) to Zombie Tactical (the undead making you just plain dead?). What fun!

So the little girl on the right is about to blow her sisters’ heads off with that massive pistol she’s holding…with her finger on the trigger (she’s also the only one smiling, maybe she knows something the other two don’t…that she’s got the drop on them). These are the people who want us to think they are safe carrying weapons in public?

NRA poster children if I ever saw any.

When the truth is truly stranger than fiction; take fiction’s side. 5 people were wounded at Gun Appreciation Daze festivities. Well, shit howdy. I’m glad I worked 10 hrs. today as opposed to stopping the gov’t from a massive takeover, from their fear and trepidation of us, of course. We showed’em, fuckin’ a, we showed’ em.

Gee, a whole 600? I think the crowd on a Saturday night at Oil Can Harry’s was more than that. If that’s the best you can do for Gun Appreciation Day in Alex Jones’ home town, I’m a bit more hopeful about the U.S. finally acting like a grown-up country.

Does anyone know what the rules are for Child Protective Services to come into a home and remove children from a dangerous environment based upon a reasonable suspicion with evidence such as this picture? I mean, isn’t this screaming for someone to get those girls away from asshole parents who would put them in danger like this? I suppose it depends on the State where these retards (bite me, Sarah) live, but Jesus, what does it take?? No sane parent can possibly look at this picture and not want to throw the parents in jail.

Not to mention the least trigger discipline is the sweet little dear on the right who, as Marion notes so eloquently @ 12, “is aiming that BIG-ASS gun at her baby sister”.

Though I doubt that is baby sister, for other reasons Marion notes even more eloquently @ 12. Thank you, ma’am, for saying what I was thinking, lookist though it may be.(Bonus points if ‘baby sister’ is named Brunhilda).

Living in same red state nirvana as Jenn, I often marvel at the naivete of you dear sweet blue staters. Y’all give me hope. This picture isn’t representative of the particular around here – the handguns make it a white trash, as opposed to redneck, image. Put the little dears in camo, put ‘em out in the woods, and give them long guns, and it becomes a picture I see on office desks of people pulling six figures down at my place of employment.

If these girls had attended Sandy Hook school, the world would be a better place today.

It’s obvious that no white guy with an arsenal would take these bitchez on!
Too harsh?

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I have gotten the ‘Obama’s takin’ away mah rights!!!’ pitch from my wingnut pals. I simply ask them to tell me exactly which rights they no longer have, since Obama ‘came to power’. The stunned, retard-like look is priceless.

How about, next year, ‘Gun Depreciation Day’.

Ah, the Responsible Gun Owner.

All of the attendance at those makes it really obvious that there are a lot fewer of them than they claim. As much noise as they make, there should have been thousand and tens of thousands showing up.

From cynick’s link, the photos of kids and guns are pretty frightening. I wanted to jump into the frame and take the gun away from the chicks sitting with the vodka bottles.

What’s the deal with the “crossed guns on your chest” pose – there were a couple in the slide show, too. Is this copying some film role model? It doesn’t look very practical. How would you have control over either gun?

Makes you look really dangerous, before you open your arms and shoot two innocent bystanders, as the guy you were trying to scare shoots you.

Americans with Guns will fight any government that…offers them medicare and social security so they can avoid spending their golden years dumpster-diving for food and living in a cardboard box.

Heaven forbid they mount a resistance to the corporate greed that helps them downgrade their lives from middle class to poor.

…that there is a greater chance that the government will be coming after them for some reason or another…

Unless it is controlled by a rich white Republican guy because, “loyalty oaths and free speech zones is teh cost of freedumz!”

…than there is a chance that their kids might need that money to go to college someday.

Seen as a feature, not a bug.

No doubt the ‘adult fantasizing about the lost joys of childhood’ who took that picture defends their stupidity by pointing out the children don’t have their fingers’ on the triggers. Proof they are being taught “Responsible gun ownership!”

I don’t quite get the notes of hostility toward the children in this photo that seems to pop up in a few posts. In what way is it their doing that the adults who control their lives posed them like this? Projecting their parents’ fears, hatreds, and delusions onto them, on the evidence of this picture, makes no sense.

No law says everyone has to love children. Some people do, some don’t. People who don’t care for kids do well to be aware of it. They can seriously, consciously, and conscientiously avoid having any or being made responsible for any. There are a lot of parents who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near children. The US has the poorest ranking in the industrialized world when it comes to the numbers of children killed by parents or caregivers.

However, I was under the impression that one big reason that Sandy Hook has energized this debate to the point where things might actually improve on the legal front was that the victims were primarily young, entirely innocent, kids.

Hmmm, 15 year old shoots/kills 5 in NM. Fortunately, it wasn’t the guns that killed. The beat goes on…

Hey! Ho! Let’s go!

When I look at that photo, all I can think of is pure horror.

You know, when Julie Brown wrote (and starred in) her seminal 80′s hit, we all thought it was a funny parody – not a blueprint for the future.

The middle child in this image is still a baby. Posing a baby with a weapon is a horrifying act. Damned near perversion.

Fortunately those highly trained good guys never go nuts….

Looking closer at the photo, we pick up some other clues: the window trim marks it out as low-end construction from sometime in the late 70s through early 90s, while the plastic mini-blinds and “rental-unit white” walls indicate that the kids’ parents don’t own the home. The only personal touch, aside from the abused children, is an aspirational scene of the tropics which appears to have been clipped out of a magazine – or perhaps came in the cheap gold-tone frame when it was purchased. It represents someone’s idea (perhaps their mother’s) of her greatest unfulfilled wish – the trip to Hawaii, which they will never take because 1) the small amount of disposable income they have goes to buying guns, 2) the airlines will never let the husband bring those guns on the plane so the trip would be out even if they could afford it and 3) hubby has been put off the idea of ever visiting the islands now that they are tainted by association with Black Hitler.

Also, too: who the fuck hangs a picture 1/4″ from the window trim? Kids with guns ain’t the only problem here, though they are emblematic of poor taste in general.

Dr. Jennifer has spoken.

Are the children standing on chairs? You can see the chair backs behind them, but they look like they are too low down.

Looks like three kids are balancing on two chairs. So when they tumble off with their guns in hand….

1/11/13 – Appearing on CNN this morning, “Gun Appreciation Day” chairman Larry Ward said that if blacks had been armed, there never would have been slavery in America. Ward’s group planned the appreciation day for the weekend of President Obama’s second inauguration, and some critics have attacked the celebration for its proximity to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

“I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me if he were alive today that if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history,” Ward told CNN host Carol Costello.

Yup, Martin Luther King – a mas assassinated by a lifetime criminal (who’d escaped from prison two years before and was able to purchase a rifle in Georgia and crossed the state line into Tennessee) from a sniper’s position across the street, would so totally be in favor of Gun Appreciation Day because FREEDUM!

I swear, if these gun-worshipping pencil-dicks ever tried to shoot themselves in the head, they’d have to stick the gun up their own asses to aim.

They’re standing on the chairs to avoid the blood on the floor…

Even the people who are supposed to know what they are doing sometimes end up hurting their own families using guns in “self defense”. 2 years ago an off duty cop in the next town over thought a burglar was sneaking in his basement window. He shot the intruder…who turned out to be his 18 year old daughter sneaking back into the house after a date. She ended up in the hospital in critical condition.

That is a horrifying picture. I’m going to shout it as loud as I can.
ALL GUNS ARE LOADED!

Children? Hey, you might just be looking at Sis, baby, and Mom if that picture was snapped in Appalachia.