This is five year old thinking. A five year old cannot comprehend gun safety.

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78. Radical gun extremists--that's all this exposes

There just isn't any way around it in my estimation: letting a five year old shoot a gun even under 'strict' adult supervision is reckless, irresponsible, dangerous, abusive, and negligent.

An adult/parent would have to be deep, deep inside a certain kind of unreality to have some kind of notion that a five year old has an sense or conception of the lethality of the instrument they are operating.

As an analogy, what kind of parent/guardian would let a five year old operate even a scaled-down real chainsaw? There is an unpredictability with use of a chainsaw that a small child isn't even physically able to control -- a gun has the same potential for unpredictability by its very nature. If we saw a neighbor letting their little five year old girl using a small chainsaw on a block of wood, even with the mom behind her and holding her arms, we would be appalled and consider that action child endangerment.

But a gun is degrees worse because kids that age play at games using weapons -- as the video demonstrates, they simply cannot fully comprehend the differences between real and imaginative.

So, it seems to me what we have witnessed with this latest incident is the depths of extremism and the perverseness of the gun culture that promotes child gun use and then uses that as a platform to further promote their so-called Second Amendment mania.