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Stupid, completely within the law.... Kid has it pointed in a safe direction and finger off the trigger.. I've been shooting since I was about 1/2 this kids age... shot my first deer by 9, and was out hunting by myself when I was 13....

I'd like a suit against the state for harassment...

Just bureaucratic BS. Nothing really to see.

Liberal pansies keep tryin though......

To be fair, that kid looks like he's about to mow down a crowd and then jerk off on the corpses...

With Sandy Hook and the other half dozens of publicized shooting sprees, people, the media, and government workers are being a little oversensitive about guns. The head of the Department of Corrections was murdered while answering his front door this morning in Colorado.

The picture certainly looks scarier than my old Marlin 22 that my dad gave me at that age.

Somone saw the photo on facebook and called "Child Protection" The dad is an idiot for posting that picture on facebook and not realizing that people would misinterpret it, given current events.

AR-15s and guns that look like them tend to freak people out. If he was holding an O/U .20 gauge in that photo then no one calls the cops.

Considering they didn't open his safe and they left when they were asked to present a warrant, I don't see how this speaks to "a change in what is and isn't OK regarding personal liberties"

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That's not at all what he said. He said it's idiotic to post that picture and not think that there's a good chance people will freak out and potentially do something like this because of the current times.

Reading comprehension is key.

No. There's a huge difference between saying "it's idiotic to post things on facebook if people disagree" vs. "it's idiotic to post things on facebook when you know it could lead to people overreacting and calling the police."

If you think that's splitting hairs, then I don't know what to tell you. Posting something like "Republicans/Democrats are terrible" has the consequence of a stupid facebook argument. Posting a child with a gun has a reasonable chance to end with the police investigating. That's not splitting hairs.

And I never said the dude should care what people think. He can do whatever he wants. But this result isn't terribly unexpected - people overreact to everything, and when overreacting involves guns, there's a chance the police will get involved. He should have realized that this was a reasonable probability.

Your missing my point.

When a 16 year old walks into a school and murders 20 kids with an "AR-15" you should think twice about posting a pic of a smiling kid with an "AR-15" on a public forum. (yes I know the gun in the photo isn't an AR-15)

Its called situational awareness.

Kind of like a standup comedian making a joke about hijacking a plane the day after 9-11.

Smart people realize this.

I didn't say there was any correlation between the Doc dude and the boy holding a gun. Unless... one has poor reading comprehension skills.

I realize that people dispute what gun was used thats why i put it in "quotes"

Im not saying the guy should have known Child Services was going to knock on the door and ask to see his registration paperwork, my point was a little common sense should tell him that maybe its not a good idea to post a picture of an "AR-15" with a smiling kid on facebook given all the media hype over gun violence and crazy white kids.

If the kid was holding an old-fashioned Marlin 22 semi auto, then I don't think whoever called the police would still feel as concerned about the situation. If that makes sense. The AR-15 may have not been used at Sandy Hook, but either way the majority of Americans see that picture of a kid, and say hey thats the same gun from Sandy Hook.

So let us live our lives in accordance with sensibilities of flaming morons?

This country sux

You're so uneducated on this topic it is almost comical.

The "AR-15" 'NATO' round is a .223. It is NOT designed to kill humans, it is designed to wound. As I said, the actual projectile is the same as a .22.. so no, YOU don't be stupid.

Idc why someone equally as uneducated as you call the cops. Aurora and Sandy hook "assault rifles" were not "machine guns" they were semi-auto .223 rifles. (never left the car in sandy hook)