Much has already been written about the girl with the Uzi who killed the ‘weapons instructor’ in Nevada, and I agree with most of it. A law saying that you must be 18 years old before firing such a weapon wouldn’t infringe much on people’s rights. A bit, of course, but if we don’t want to infringe on anybody’s rights, ever, let’s lower the drinking age to 9, and the driving age while we’re at it. Some things just have to have age limits on them. I don’t think films fall into that category. Most kids aren’t going to go see adult films anyway, because they’d be bored, and because their parents aren’t going to pay for it. But, if a precocious 14 year old with his own income gets into a dirty movie and figures out how to ‘do it,’ I don’t think the world is going to fall apart.
Many of the comments lamented how traumatized the little girl is going to be. Very few sympathized with the dead guy. Which is a bit unfair. He was undoubtedly a gun nut, and probably a moron, but it’s still a shame he’s dead, and there are probably people who’ll miss him very much.
That incident got a lot more press than this one. A young black man, who was leaning on a toy rifle, was shot dead by police. He apparently didn’t hear their warning to drop the weapon, as he was standing with his back to them and talking on the phone. So, why was he standing there with a toy rifle, you might ask. Because he was in the toy department. AT Wal-Mart. The shelves are filled with them. He was probably considering buying one.
White people go into Wal-Mart and similar stores armed with very real automatic weapons and they call it ‘open carry.’
The worst part: one of the two officers involved in the shooting is still on active duty. Didn’t even take a day off.
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