Vanc. teen pleads guilty to stealing rifle, taking it to school

It was suggested here a few days ago, that rather than trying to pass more laws to restrict firearm ownership, magazines of a certain size, etc.... why not encourage the proper training, storage and use of firearms? 

 

Why not offer a tax incentive for gun safes?  

Well at least he did plead guilty which is an admission of screwing up. I have to give him props for that.

 

I am hoping that this kid learns his lesson and makes something of his life in the years to come.

this could throw his relationship with his father on a bad path for eternity.   have the usual posts been posted already?  you know...the darwin, chlorine, cant fix stupid rants? 

KATU stop bombarding us with these things we have had enough you have desensitized us to the stories they no longer shock us.And a word From Thomas Jefferson, a country that Gives up its freedom for security shall have neither security nor its freedom.. IS this What you WANT KATU? Do you want us to give up our freedoms for security?

daddy should've took his son to target practice or hunting, then the dumb kid would have more respect for what guns can do.

KATU and all the other media outlets constantly bombard us over and over again with stories like this. The lame stream media makes no secret of their contempt for the 2nd Amendment. Every instance like this has to be broadcast over and over to condition the populace to accept future restrictions on firearm ownership. Suck it up sheepeople, your wish may come true.

Did the boy really think that he would get away with it, based on the events of late?

 

WOW. 

Does this kid have a death wish? People are so on edge that if someone blinks twice they could get blown away. In 1964 when I was in school no one would think twice seeing a weapon. But now.........

Uhh, no gun safe at home?

This story is a prime example of how liability insurance would help gun safety...

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2012/12/17/newtowns-new-reality-using-liability-insurance-to-reduce-gun-deaths/

 

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If you think that the mandatory insurance idea is onerous, think again. You can’t finance a home mortgage without homeowner’s and title insurance. Want to buy a car? Most states require liability insurance. Forget about employing anyone in most states without worker’s compensation or unemployment coverage. As it stands now, only 22 cities and two counties in California require gun dealers to buy liability insurance, according to Law Center Against Gun Violence. It’s not known if any jurisdiction requires buyers to purchase liability coverage, although a state legislator in Illinois proposed such a law in 2009 (it was defeated). Note: the NRA itself currently endorses “excess liability” insurance for gun owners.”

While I don’t place much faith in government being a fair regulator of guns, I also think that a tax should be imposed on weapons sales based on the relative harm they can do, which is again employing risk-based pricing.

Want to buy a single-shot World War II rifle? You’d pay much less than a semi-automatic handgun with a multi-round clip. The tax would be used to pay for a database that would monitor and register gun sales. Also requiring a longer waiting period for a permit and requiring that three non-relatives sign character affidavits during the permit process aren’t bad ideas, either.

Of course, I’m not sure how to stem the underground trade of guns other than enforcing outright bans on unregistered weapons. Nor will my concept keep guns away from criminals; insane people may still find a way to get around buying insurance and sidestepping the underwriting. But it will raise the bar for the liability threshold. It will cost you dearly — or prohibit you from getting insurance and a gun — if an insurer deems you uninsurable.

Insurance will more effectively price the risk and costs of social harm. I know that this falls short of getting rid of the most dangerous weapons, but we have to start somewhere. We just can’t afford to see any more Auroras, Columbines, Tucsons and Newtowns."

Ok Now there scraping the bottom of the barrel . 

At any rate a very stupid kid. 

what happened to it was just the stock and trigger assy? no barrel

Smart move to plea out rather than face a jury trial on this right now.

I think that the average American man--most of whom have been young American men--would agree that solutions for this sort of behavior could include public whipping, humiliation, military school (where they carry mops instead of guns) or hard public service as an example to others.

 

Instead, some ineffective judge or absentee parent will scold him, maybe he'll have to write some essays.  Or maybe he'll get introduced to all kinds of other criminal madness in the penitentiary system which is certainly as troubling.

 

I never took a gun to school because I -still- shudder at the beating my grandfather would have administered on me, I never feared jail.  And not only did my grandfather keep a .38 under his pillow and a shotgun in the closet during my entire life with him, he never laid a hand on me in anger, ever. 

 

Maybe what America really needs is more grandfathers. Live long enough to teach your grandchildren the things their parents haven't figured out how yet. It's something we can all do together.

"A Vancouver teen has pleaded guilty to stealing his father's gun and taking it to school."  (from the story)

 

Nice kid..!   

Boy, I'll bet his father's gonna be R-E-A-L happy..!   (sarc off)