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TIL some people think there’s such a thing as a gun for children.

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if you told me they sell a gun specifically for children in texas i would absolutely believe it.

that state is fucking crazy

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There’s a brand of 22 rifles named cricket that are specifically designed to teach children how to shoot they’ve got built-in safety locks that are a bitch if you lose the key

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I was just in the bass pro shop in Memphis the other day, and I did in fact see light caliber rifles specifically marketed for children to use.

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…i mean, i got my first BB gun in third grade and my first twenty-gauge in fourth grade, both youth firearms for christmas in texas; our semi-automatic twenty-twos were hand-me-downs from younger cousins in mississippi who’d graduated to thirty-thirties…

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They do in California too. It’s the whole country.

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Well we do have frequent school shootings in America, so any gun that’s been used must be a children’s gun right? /S

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This comment makes me sad

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Aren’t you from Indiana? I just assumed y’all had free .22s for underprivileged children.

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They probably did in most of Indiana, but I grew up in Bloomington and it’s the evil librul leftie commie part of Indiana where a bunch of old hippies who are still hippies settled around the horrible liberal indoctrination center of Indiana University, so they only gave us water pistols.

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Oh that makes sense. You were indoctrinated by the evil IU. Why I bet that Kinsey man taught you all sorts of left wing lies like that it’s more ok for a man to love another man than to love his rifle in an intimate way.

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As a matter of fact, that is a thing that exists. I had a special child-sized .22 rifle when I was 5 years old. My parents kept it safely stored and allowed me to practice with it under close supervision. Sears made them, marketed as a “youth” model.

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Well that’s disturbing… imagine how many parents, especially today, wouldn’t keep it safely stored or allow their kid to practice with it only under close supervision.

In theory, in a world where every gun owner was responsible, it wouldn’t worry me. We don’t live in that world.

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