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That looks like a lot of fun, and yeah, that lady was psycho. :lol .

I'd love to go do something like that, but have a bunch of explosive barrels and flimsy buildings set up to take down.
 
MrPing1000 said:


Why.............. going by the wrist bands and the enclosed course they fire the guns at, I would say it is some kind of class or training...kinda hard to get hold of some of that stuff they had... Seems to be an instructor(the guy in the majority of the video) and they dont seem to be firing the guns with reckless abandon...Everyone is also wearing ear plugs and saftey eye wear..
 
MrPing1000 said:
maybe not being American makes me think that any weapon in the hands of a child even in a secure situation is a bad idea.
Maybe .. I hope you arent saying America is the only place where kids fire weapons, you do realize in some plaxe in the world youg kids are force to join the military...but back on topic...


This seem like a fire hand saftey training course and they are letting people shot weapons they will never have a chance to fire again these people probably have to take this course in order to get a hunting license, which is manditory in the States......
 
MrPing1000 said:
how about a 10 year old kid practicing their stabbling technique with a 6inch blade on a pillow

I'll worry about that when an automatic shotgun is as easy to come by as a pencil or a letter opener.
 
Bah, idiots indeed. Kids have no business being there! What's next, teaching them to push a red button...

They should be playing with Pokémon cards or something, not emptying out clips!



It does however look like fun though :p - I only missed the minigun in there
 
themadcowtipper said:
Maybe .. I hope you arent saying America is the only place where kids fire weapons, you do realize in some plaxe in the world youg kids are force to join the military...but back on topic...

The parallel doesn't apply too well. A kid getting a gun for his/her birthday is not the same thing as required miltary service training someone a few years older how to handle a firearm.
 
So pointless, welcome to the US.
And no, children should not learn how to fire weapons - regardless of the circumstances.
 
ejdonk said:
So pointless, welcome to the US.
And no, children should not learn how to fire weapons - regardless of the circumstances.


But why not? I would say that learning how to properly fire a gun would also teach kids responsability in using firearms. It's like how in learning martial arts kids learn to control their abilities and to use them only in self defense.

I'd say that this, at worst, is harmless family fun.
 
xsarien said:
The parallel doesn't apply too well. A kid getting a gun for his/her birthday is not the same thing as required miltary service training someone a few years older how to handle a firearm.
You do realize the coutries I was talking about that force kids to join the military are way yonger then the age in that video...I was just pointing out to MrPing that it is not only the United States where kids have guns and it is stupid to think that....
 
themadcowtipper said:
You do realize the coutries I was talking about that force kids to join the military are way yonger then the age in that video...I was just pointing out to MrPing that it is not only the United States where kids have guns and it is stupid to think that....
But um, don't we sorta consider the whole forcing kids into the military to be kinda horrible? How is this backing your point up?
 
Yes, in a society where every hobby Jack Bauer can get a weapon in a supermarket (not in all states), u could maybe consider showing your kids how to handle a weapon a 'have to', but this is a sad thing.
And no way to compare learning to fire a weapon with learning marital arts, dude.
But well you probably dont know it in another way. I sometimes visit my uncle who is living in CA and the weapon laws are quite ok there I think, but despite of this nearly every person I know there has a weapon at home.
It is so weird, you say you have to protect yourself and stuff, but while I'm in the US in a house with a weapon sourrounded by neighbours who also have a weapon etc, I feel quite insecure in contrast with Europe, where hardly anyone has a weapon - and paradoxically I feel much safer here.
 
ejdonk said:
Yes, in a society where every hobby Jack Bauer can get a weapon in a supermarket (not in all states), u could maybe consider showing your kids how to handle a weapon a 'have to', but this is a sad thing.
And no way to compare learning to fire a weapon with learning marital arts, dude.
But well you probably dont know it in another way. I sometimes visit my uncle who is living in CA and the weapon laws are quite ok there I think, but despite of this nearly every person I know there has a weapon at home.
It is so weird, you say you have to protect yourself and stuff, but while I'm in the US in a house with a weapon sourrounded by neighbours who also have a weapon etc, I feel quite insecure in contrast with Europe, where hardly anyone has a weapon - and paradoxically I feel much safer here.

My parallel to martial arts is just fine. It's all about learning to control and to properly use something that is dangerous.

And you know, you can FEEL just about any way you want, but know that you're only in danger around the stupid and/or the malicious. If I wanted to harm or even kill you in a place where I didn't have a firearm, I could find about 1000 other lethal things to do to you.

And let's continue to the second amendment. In Europe, what would your people do if your ruling government got so absurdly out of power and a majority of the citizens wanted to do something about it? I doubt pitchforks would have much effect on a loyal army.

I'm all for stricter gun laws, don't get me wrong, but outlawing them and condemning those who use them is just dumb.
 
olimario said:
And let's continue to the second amendment. In Europe, what would your people do if your ruling government got so absurdly out of power and a majority of the citizens wanted to do something about it? I doubt pitchforks would have much effect on a loyal army.

Don't pretend americans citizens will ever do fuck all to overthrough your own government :lol

I mean, think it all you want, it will never never happen.
 
olimario said:
And let's continue to the second amendment. In Europe, what would your people do if your ruling government got so absurdly out of power and a majority of the citizens wanted to do something about it? I doubt pitchforks would have much effect on a loyal army.

We'd all become Ninja's taking out small groups of troops silently and collecting their weapons along the way.
 
MrPing1000 said:
We'd all become Ninja's taking out small groups of troops silently and collecting their weapons along the way.

Or, everyone could just throw rocks like the IRA and Al-Qaeda does!
 
Speaking of IRA, Has anyone here actually been up to northern Ireland? Is it as bad as the rest of Ireland tries to make it out to be?
 
catfish said:
Or, everyone could just throw rocks like the IRA and Al-Qaeda does!

:lol :lol Yeah theres a lot of rocks here in Ireland

Gek54 said:
Speaking of IRA, Has anyone here actually been up to northern Ireland? Is it as bad as the rest of Ireland tries to make it out to be?

Well I live in the outskirts of Belfast. It all depends where u live, there are a lot of people that would be more useful dead in this country. Idiots throwing stones petrol bombs as the police, armed gangs etc. Politicians are a bunch of bastards as well.

Of course if u live in an area like I do it doesn't affect u at all. There are places I wouldn't dare go though, but I guess thats the same for a lot of places.
 
olimario said:
And you know, you can FEEL just about any way you want, but know that you're only in danger around the stupid and/or the malicious. If I wanted to harm or even kill you in a place where I didn't have a firearm, I could find about 1000 other lethal things to do to you.

That may be true, but I think having a weapon lowers the inhibition threshold to harm someone a lot, because you have distance to your victim, you can be quite sure that it is deadly and let's say its relatively 'clean'. Also there hasn't to be a planning phase, fireing a weapon is mostly very spontaneous.

And let's continue to the second amendment. In Europe, what would your people do if your ruling government got so absurdly out of power and a majority of the citizens wanted to do something about it? I doubt pitchforks would have much effect on a loyal army.

I'm sure that if your government goes crazy, it won't make much of a difference if the people are 'armed' or not. I dont think many people have a bazooka or an anti-aircraft missile at the attic.
 
themadcowtipper said:
You do realize the coutries I was talking about that force kids to join the military are way yonger then the age in that video...I was just pointing out to MrPing that it is not only the United States where kids have guns and it is stupid to think that....

Age aside, there's a sharp difference between recreational shooting and military use.
 
That looks like fun. Stuff like that is neat in a technical and "cool" factor... except when they're actually used for their real purpose :(.
 
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