[Vision2020] Nation Debates Extremely Complex Issue of Children Firing Military Weapons

[Paul Rumelhart]

I'm a complicated individual.


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Scott Dredge <scooterd408 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Paul - you're such a hypocrite.  You get all up in arms about a standup
> guy with a long military career being killed in a shooting, but you refuse
> to lift your trigger finger in protest of neighborhood watch captains and
> police who shoot thugs during altercations.
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:03:25 -0700
> From: paul.rumelhart at gmail.com
> To: thansen at moscow.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Nation Debates Extremely Complex Issue of
> Children Firing Military Weapons
>
>
> Why do you hide Borowitz reports behind obfuscated urls?
>
> Just for the record, I'm all for teaching kids how to fire weapons and,
> more to the point, how to be responsible around them.  That's typically
> where you learn to treat every weapon as if it's loaded and the safety is
> off.  You don't start them out on fully automatic weapons with a large
> kick, though.  That was irresponsible of the parents and doubly so of the
> instructor.
>
> I would rather have children learn a) how to use and respect a firearm in
> order to reduce accidents and b) not to be afraid of them or (worse) to
> only be exposed to them through movies.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> Courtesy of the New Yorker at:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/Children-and-Military-Weapons
>
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> Nation Debates Extremely Complex Issue of Children Firing Military Weapons
>
> WASHINGTON—Across the United States on Wednesday, a heated national debate
> began on the extremely complex issue of children firing military weapons.
>
> “Every now and then, the nation debates an issue that is so complicated
> and tricky it defies easy answers,” says pollster Davis Logsdon. “Letting
> small children fire automatic weapons is such an issue.”
>
> Logsdon says that the thorny controversy is reminiscent of another ongoing
> national debate, about whether it is a good idea to load a car with
> dynamite and drive it into a tree.
>
> “Many Americans think it’s a terrible idea, but others believe that with
> the correct supervision, it’s perfectly fine,” he says. “Who’s to say who’s
> right?”
>
> Similar, he says, is the national debate about using a flamethrower
> indoors. “There has been a long and contentious national conversation about
> this,” he says. “It’s another tough one.”
>
> Much like the long-running national debates about jumping off a roof,
> licking electrical sockets, and gargling with thumbtacks, the vexing
> question of whether children should fire military weapons does not appear
> headed for a swift resolution.
>
> “Like the issue of whether you should sneak up behind a bear and jab it
> with a hot poker, this won’t be settled any time soon,” he says.
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>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares"
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>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>
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