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2014-01-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

I Never Thought My Son Would Play With Guns

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Posted by badanov 2014-01-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 No mention of a Daddy in the picture....

Posted by tipover 2014-01-15 00:53|| 2014-01-15 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 She's married.

Posted by badanov 2014-01-15 01:16|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-01-15 01:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Any bets, with mom like this, on how long until he's on Ritalin?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-01-15 02:13|| 2014-01-15 02:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Alright, alright.....so that isn't the daddy.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-15 04:52|| 2014-01-15 04:52|| Front Page Top

#5 You ever notice that the ones who gravitate towards the mental medical arts are usually a bit looney. I think they gravitate to this profession because they're trying to understand themselves thru others.

Just my opinion...

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-01-15 04:59|| 2014-01-15 04:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I dated one of these.

Dated. Didn't marry.

Pay attention, ladies.

Posted by no no uro 2014-01-15 06:05|| 2014-01-15 06:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Previous comment was mine.

Posted by no mo uro 2014-01-15 06:06|| 2014-01-15 06:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Alright, alright.....so HE isn't the daddy.

Posted by pikestaff 2014-01-15 06:27|| 2014-01-15 06:27|| Front Page Top

#9 There is always a promising career in the US Marine Corps.

No, seriously.

You get promoted for being knowledgable and efficient with weapons. And if you are the one in six who gets a kill count you might be given your own Platoon and who knows where that might lead....Regiment or above someday.

"Mama, let's play !" Teach him about flanking and double envelopments and the difference between A and L ambushes.
Find 'em, Fix 'em, Fight 'em, and Finish 'em.

Posted by Spereting Tingle4064 2014-01-15 06:32|| 2014-01-15 06:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Sounds like she wants him to be a girl.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-01-15 07:14|| 2014-01-15 07:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Isn't the modern artificial urban bubble wonderful? I mean to be able to ignore 4000 years of recorded human history and live in practically the Disney World of human experience all attained by ignoring the thin line provided by the curtains of a very elaborate arrangement of technology and social organization that disappears in hours from a Katrina or Sandy. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-01-15 08:17|| 2014-01-15 08:17|| Front Page Top

#12

Ah. THERE is the problem.

Eventually, he didn't accept my explanation and started asking questions I didn't have the answers to. And they were questions that I ask myself all the time.

There you go: you admit you ask the questions, you admit you don't know the answers, then propose "solutions" that imply that you DO know the answers.

Posted by Ptah 2014-01-15 08:52|| 2014-01-15 08:52|| Front Page Top

#13 #12 - Liberal thought, AKA magical thinking - in a nutshell: "I know what I want the answers to be..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2014-01-15 09:21|| 2014-01-15 09:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Sounds like junior's toys are stored in mom's basket case.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-01-15 09:22|| 2014-01-15 09:22|| Front Page Top

#15 BTW, Besoeker, that deer in #4 - one of yours, or somebody you know? That's quite a whitetail. I'd be smiling a lot bigger than that young guy in the pic.

Posted by no mo uro 2014-01-15 09:43|| 2014-01-15 09:43|| Front Page Top

#16 We talked about how guns are best used for protection, only by those whose job it is to protect -- the police, the army.

Like about most Europeans I was anti-gun. And one day I read an American liberal proudly saying: "If you try to harm my children you will see how fast I am for calling the police". Whaaaaaaaaat? if you try to harm my children I will kill you and the only reason I am going to call the police is because the bad guy could prevail on me. And I am certainly unwilling to ask police officers to risk their lives in order to save my shildren all while I hide under the bed like that American liberal was apparently planning to do.

Since then I have become a firm partisan of Second Amendment.

Posted by JFM 2014-01-15 10:10|| 2014-01-15 10:10|| Front Page Top

#17 No, not mine. No luck for me this year.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-15 10:11|| 2014-01-15 10:11|| Front Page Top

#18 A Georgia deer however, believe it or not.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-15 10:13|| 2014-01-15 10:13|| Front Page Top

#19 Reminds me of a man I talked to who said, "I don't need a firearm. If someone tries to get in my house I'm not taking the law into my own hands but dialing 911. After, I pay my taxes so the police can protect me". I asked him if he was familiar with the Supreme Court decision that declared a citizen has no inherent right to be protected by the police.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-01-15 10:34|| 2014-01-15 10:34|| Front Page Top

#20 Follup to #16

I am now a knuckle dragging, Bible thumping, gun toting French red neck. :-)

Posted by JFM 2014-01-15 10:52|| 2014-01-15 10:52|| Front Page Top

#21 HuffPo author trying to make her way to Salon, apparently

Posted by Frank G 2014-01-15 11:02|| 2014-01-15 11:02|| Front Page Top

#22 He divides the world into black/white, good/bad, yes/no, perhaps as a way to simplify a world that he is beginning to sense is not so simple.

I worked with troubled teen-agers at one point in my life. One day, one of the kids I was working with brought a gun to the center and threatened me. He told me what he was going to do to me if I continued talking with his parents. The world, all of a sudden got black and white and had a great deal of clarity. I read where the kid later died in a prison killing.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-15 11:51|| 2014-01-15 11:51|| Front Page Top

#23 JFM, you must feels as out-of-place in France as I do when I have to go to San Francisco. We need to figure out how you were cured of European-ness and apply that antidote to the rest of Europe and the urban US.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-01-15 13:24|| 2014-01-15 13:24|| Front Page Top

#24 Good for you JFM. There is hope.

This article strikes me as another "neutering" of America article.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-15 14:26|| 2014-01-15 14:26|| Front Page Top

#25 You're an idiot, he wanted to win, so he set the rules, they wern't your rules, so you lost, now you're moaning about it.

You have NO business raising a child, I'd take him away and let him grow up normally.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-01-15 17:33|| 2014-01-15 17:33|| Front Page Top

#26 This broad's a therapist? Yikes...

Posted by tu3031 2014-01-15 18:45|| 2014-01-15 18:45|| Front Page Top

#27 This broad's a therapist? Yikes...

Also the Fort Hood massacre shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-01-15 19:06|| 2014-01-15 19:06|| Front Page Top

#28 You ever notice that the ones who gravitate towards the mental medical arts are usually a bit looney... Just my opinion...

No - working in my current position for the past 7+ years, I find that it's moderately accurate. I call it "qualification".

Posted by Pappy 2014-01-15 20:51|| 2014-01-15 20:51|| Front Page Top

#29 I'd heard folks that many shrinks start off with that major in college hoping to understand themselves better. So start broken and learn to fix and then fix others except what if they can't fix themselves? Then they write for Huffpo I guess.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-01-15 21:02|| 2014-01-15 21:02|| Front Page Top

#30 In spite of her best efforts, little Johnny will grow up to be a man.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-01-15 22:59|| 2014-01-15 22:59|| Front Page Top

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