• unphazed@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    My daughter is 15. She hates guns. Hates being around them, the sound, the idea of harm, etc. 4 weeks ago she came crying afraid for her friends and ICE. Last week she told me she wanted to learn to shoot. (I inherited a lot of guns. I bought a few myself. I come from a conservative family and I am the black sheep, the one that “changed”.) Still trying to get ahold of someone from Blazing Sword as an instructor. I want her to learn from someone with actual teaching instruction, rather than backwoods learning that I got.

    Kids are terrified. Schools are scary, the law is scary, the dungeon dwelling creeps are now villified. I can see why suicide is increasing.

    • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      My teenage daughter and her friends were planning a walk out at school to protest ICE. She texted me that the school administrators and “resource officers” (aka cops in schools) physically blocked all the exits so nobody could leave.

      • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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        7 days ago

        Dude shut the fuck up. You think the kids of conservative families aren’t learning how to shoot younger than 15? It’s time to wake up and realize that firearms training and discipline is going to soon be boon to those who have it.

        • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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          7 days ago

          I know several people who have died from firearms including family members. Gun obsessed morons have lead to more deaths than every single loss in every single war in US history in the last thirty years. The only person who should shut the fuck up is you.