Let's make this clear: responding to your teenage child's words with violence is NOT OKAY.

[TheWraith]

27. We're not talking about some abstract or bleeding-heart definition of "abusive" or "coercive."

We're talking about a guy responding to his daughter's private complaining to her friends about her parents by losing his shit and destroying something, and then crowing about that fact on YouTube. There's no comparison between that and people who think teenage jobs are wrong. This is about actual, physical violence and the threat of it; anything else is a red herring.

Regarding "shooting things" in "gun culture," what "gun culture"? To put it bluntly, some people seem to be under the impression that there's one giant solidified mass of redneckism outside of the suburbs. The fact that somebody owns a firearm doesn't make them part of some kind of secret sect or giant homogeneous mass that all thinks and acts the same, whose lives revolve around the fact that they own a firearm. The reality is there's about a hundred million Americans who own guns, and most are just regular people. Owning a gun neither makes you more likely to lose your shit and shoot something up because you're angry, nor is it an excuse for doing so, and this guy would have been just as much in the wrong if he'd been wearing tweed and using a nine iron.