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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn any other country we'd call it an atrocity.
But here, it's "tradition."
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)actslikeacarrot
(464 posts)...some parents introduce their kids to guns at too early an age comparing taking a child shooting and supervising them to what could possibly be a child soldier is not quite the same.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)And you can tell that how? To which child were you referring?
actslikeacarrot
(464 posts)....for all I know that picture could have been taken in the US. But from my experiences overseas, I saw children that small manning checkpoints with their fathers holding on to AK's as tall as them. In hindsight I jumped to conclusions way too fast. I have no idea if that child is a soldier or not, but if the child was not, then I really wouldn't call it an atrocity, just dumb parenting. I do think some parents give their children access to guns at a way early age, hell I was 15 before my father took me target shooting, and that was after I had completed a gun safety course.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)Hence, the poster you're responding to is likely pointing that out.
EOTE
(13,409 posts)adults? Or is it the type of gun that they're using that makes one a child soldier and the other not? If that's the case, why are the gun nuts constantly telling us that AKs and ARs are just dandy for hunting or just good ol' fashioned gun shootin'?
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Who do you think they'll get to fight that war?
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(8,155 posts)So...yeah. I guess I'll just wait and see what others say.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)Response to name not needed (Original post)
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Progressive dog
(6,900 posts)while they're still too young to understand death. What could go wrong with that?
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)I was about to post "now you've done it" but got distracted, and when I saw this come up again, I saw that your post got hidden. You've done it, indeed.