Is there a background check required for each of these or just the first one?

[Renew Deal]

http://www.lamebook.com/phriday-photos

[Abq_Sarah]

1. WTF

Are they thinking???

[Renew Deal]

3. It just shows that the stupidity is a bottomless pit occupied by many people.

:wtf:

[PavePusher]

7. What the problem is? n/t

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

21. It just shows the ability of some to overreact to things they fear.

[SteveM]

12. You should have seen me when I was 7. Only I fired the thing...

That was the age, if I recall correctly, when I was first instructed on the proper use of a revolver. It was LOUD, I tell you.

What is it about the photos that disturbs you? Are there safety concerns? Do you think a baby or even young child will remember or be influenced by these "moments caught on film?" Perhaps the only purpose of these pictures is to get a rise out of gun-controllers, I don't know.

I can't recall what I was "thinking" when I was 7, but I did know to point the gun in a safe direction: an empty oil drum.

[Abq_Sarah]

17. I'm wondering wtf the parents are thinking

If you want to give age appropriate training on firearms to children, I applaud you. If you let your little girl play with a rifle that is far too large for her, with her finger on the trigger no less, I will condemn you. That kid is not being taught a proper respect for weapons.

[SteveM]

19. Applaud/condemn...

Neither of us know what's going on in these pictures. Would I let a child handle a gun like the ones shown? Probably not. But it does appear to be an effort to slap at gun-controllers' obsession with doing something "for the kids."

BTW, when I first handled a .22 rifle, I let the barrel drop into the dirt because of the weight. Was it too heavy for me? No. But I didn't expect the weight to be as much as it was. Next, I learned to clean the barrel.

[aikoaiko]

2. Pictures of kids posed with guns really pushes some people's buttons.

I wouldn't do it myself.

There is no way to know if those firearms are loaded, but I'm disinclined to let my kids pose with firearms just for the sake of picture before they trained to respect basic firearm safety.

The child in the second picture is violating at least rule 3:
1. All guns are always loaded (until you establish whether they are or not).
2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. Keep your gun pointed in a safe direction at all times: on the range, at home, loading, or unloading.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target (and you are ready to shoot).
4. Be sure of your target. Know what it is, what is in line with it and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you haven't positively identified.

[virginia mountainman]

4. Their is a good way, and a bad way....those are the latter..

These are the former...

[krispos42]

5. The top one isbad, the 2nd one isn't too good either.

She might be old enough to shoot a kid-sized .22, but not an AR.

[PavePusher]

6. Might be a .22 upper...

but with the launcher, I doubt it.

Still have to wonder what is wrong with a little picture time, as long as everyone is adequetely supervised and the firearms are unloaded. Mrs. Grundy is alive and... well... I see.

People really need to un-nose from others business.

[krispos42]

13. The first one... well, it's like people that name their kid "John Wayne"

"News of the Weird" runs a regular feature about people with a middle name of "Wayne" who are wanted for, arrested for, tried for, or convicted of murder. Is there a correlation between the kind of macho Jowh Wayne-fanboy person that would give an infant the middle name "Wayne" and how that kid is raised so that they're more likely to commit murder?

http://www.google.com/search?q=classic+middle+name+site%3Anewsoftheweird.com&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&rlz=


In other words, is the attitude of the parents raising the kids excessivly gung-ho? Are the pictures of the kids indicative of this attitude?



Dunno, but keep in mind this stuff was posted on a public social-networking site. I'm planning on buying my kid a .22 single-shot this fall for his birthday. And yeah I'm probably going to take pictures of him holding it and using it. But you won't see those pictures on the internet.



Or maybe I'm just being an old fart. I'll be 34 soon... maybe it's time to get crabby and start yelling at kids to get off my lawn!

[benEzra]

8. The second one may be can Airsoft replica and not a real gun.

Her stance suggests that it's lighter than a real one, and the optic atop an old school carry handle is a bit kludgy. Not to mention that real M203's are as tightly controlled as howitzers in this country, so the launcher is almost certainly a fake even if the rifle isn't plastic. x2 if that's a fake can on the end of the barrel, but I can't really tell from the photo.

As to the first pic, you're being tweaked. Somebody probably thought it would be amusing to provoke reactions in those who think civilian guns are Teh Evil.

[jeepnstein]

10. It's a flare launcher...

I know lots of guys who put them on as some kind of joke. It's like putting bull horns on your Cadillac.



Not very tasteful, but oh so American.

[dashrif]

11. It's

a can don't know if it's fake also I don't think thats an airsoft it looks like it has brass scratches on the southpaw deflector zoom in to see

[chibajoe]

16. That rifle in the second picture is definitely airsoft, or

that is one hellaciously strong little girl. Even if that was just a flare launcher, that rifle would weigh about 12 pounds if it were real, with most of the weight up front. There's no way that little girl could hold a 12 pound rifle the way she is holding that rifle (left arm unsupported carrying most of the weight of the rifle). I've seen grown women who have problems shouldering an 8 pound AR without having to lean way back to counter the weight of the gun.

[dashrif]

18. nah

thats car around 9# tops also look at the brassing on the southpaw deflector and her left elbow is in her belly with the rest of the rifle on her shoulder and chest

[shadowrider]

9. These houses should be raided

All guns confiscated and the kids locked up based on the view that at some unknown point in the future they might think about committing a crime :sarcasm:

[proteus_lives]

14. People would freak at some of the pictures from my childhood then!

Tons of pics me and my dad shooting and holding guns before my voice changed.

[X_Digger]

15. Yup.. here's one..

well, not with the guns, but with what we shot.. the cut under my eye was from crowding the scope on the 30-30. My granddad and I shot at exactly the same time and took both foxes down (he caught them casing the chicken coop).

[DissedByBush]

20. Scoped yourself early, huh?

Bet you never did that again.

I got mine above the eye, but my eyebrow hides it.

I just thought "Ouch, that hurt" and went on shooting.

Didn't realize what I'd done until I wiped the "sweat" from my brow and saw it was red.