What kind of idiot leaves a 3 year old alone in a car with or without a gun? There was some serious negligence going on here.

BTW folks, just for a reality check Canada currently has the most right wing government they have ever had.

The point is reality is more complicated than political propagandists want you to believe. We in America should look at this kind of thing and realize just how poisonous our current political situation is.

This guy is being screwed with for two reasons. The first is actually that he had a record which gave them reason to suspect. The second is that she drew a picture of a gun.

So look at the laws that we have had in place about terrorism since the last administration and consider what happens if some good kid draws a picture of their dad an a gun defending something that some people might find controversial.

It really doesn't matter if it's a Mulsim with a gun, a Christian with a gun, or even a wacko environmentalist with a gun. All three can trigger reactions because the laws are there to allow it. And if you have something that is considered suspicious enough by whatever process they decide is suspicious in your background you can be considered a terrorism suspect.

I hate to ask but why does anybody give a damn what celebrities have to say? Screw the whole lot of them. Nobody really cares what they think and nobody besides the most bored and irritated adolescent is influence by it.

And I include the illustrious Mr Nugent in that. I don't care what he thinks any more than what Brad Pitt thinks. Both are quite frankly pretty morons. Ted makes great music and Brad makes great movies but when it comes to dealing with reality both live the live the lives of spoiled, rich, stars without a clue.

And before you complain about me dissing Ted tell me, can you jet to Africa to hunt with the Governor of Texas? Do you really think somebody who can has the slightest clue what you actually deal with every day?

This is why there is more to be gained by bringing them in. Politicians pander to the people who vote for them. You aren't gong to change the minds but the people who do vote for them will.

The fascinating thing is that gun ownership is up across the spectrum including even with liberals. It's up the most by far with independents. There it has gone form a minority to a majority.

Which is why I don't really understand the extreme partisan strategy that most second amendment activists seem intent on. There is a lot more to be gained by reaching out to new gun owners who aren't necessarily conservatives than there is to be locking in tight with the GOP. Partially if they end up with "life time varmint hunter" Mitt Romney running for them. That guy will lose the NRA a lot of credibility if they back him.

Meanwhile the crooks with guns go mostly unmolested.

They do a great job nailing honest people who make a mistake and try to do the right thing when they see a sign though.

I am living in a year where $300 to $400 is still a lot of money for something they will take for granted. We have plenty of computers in the house but only the adults own ones that can be taken off to bedrooms on their own. The kids get to use them while sitting at the table but they are family computers not "theirs".

This is the problem here I think. People today buy their kids all kinds of expensive things that they take for granted and are not necessarily ready for yet. That's why parents don't get respect. I made out fine with a computer that resided in the living room. My kids can to.

In my view this is much more important with the Internet now. Being on the Internet is like going out in public all around the world. It's not as physically dangerous as driving a car but a kid can be exposed to a heck of a lot more than they will driving around town or wandering around on their own. Perhaps this is just because I know all the tricks and thus I am well aware of the limits of any supervision besides them not doing it when I am not around. But I will not give them their own laptops until they are at least 17 and then only if they keep up the straight A average. I don't want them disappearing to their room if I don't know they are keeping up on their studies.

I understand that a lot of folks are frustrated with how mouthy kids can be today and how hard parenting can be. But look folks there are a few basic problems here that none of you seems to realize and it has nothing to do with guns. Heck it doesn't even have to do with displaying your parenting on youtube like you want to be on Jerry Springer. Please don't tell me that those of us who disagree with this guys actions spoil kids. The complete opposite is true. He spoiled his kid and then freaked out and did something irrational when it didn't work out like he thought it should.

YOU SHOULD NOT GIVE A LAPTOP TO A 15 YEAR OLD! What the hell was he thinking?

1:) They are extremely expensive and things that expensive kids should have to earn the hard way or at least not be given unless they really, really need it because they are doing something exceptional that already qualifies as earning it.

2:) I am a Network Administrator by profession and as such I know an awful lot about the way the Internet works. When you hand them a laptop and they go off on their own there is actually nothing you can do to keep them from getting into and doing anything they want. Mouthing off on Facebook is the least of it. Try extra-sick hardcore porn readily available for free from any major search engine. You can't stop it. Yes there are all kinds of filtering products and ,well, none of them really work. Knowing that my kids are at least as smart as I am and that I could bypass any parental filtering product on the market easily I just won't do it.

3:) If you give a kid a laptop they will do what you don't want them to do. This is as predictable as death and taxes. It just works that way. Why set them up for this?

In my house I built a nice computer for the living room and bought an Xbox. They both sit there in the living room when they are online and nowhere else. I don't need to snoop through their stuff. They just know I can look over their shoulder at any moment.

Of course if I did look over their shoulder and see them bitching about what a slavedriver I am rather than shooting the computer I'd probably say "Oh you poor child, that work must be so awful for you. Would you like a little cheese with that whine?" They are welcome to think what they want and I am welcome to point out the error of their ways. As long as the do the damn chores I don't care.

Please. Kids don't need laptops but they do need to have their own opinons and parents who pay attention to what they do. Don't put them in a situation where they will screw up and then turn around and blame them for it by shooting the damn laptop. Keep control of things in the first place.

One thing I will thank the idiot in this video for is giving me another example to show my kids of how lucky the actually are. Next time they whine about chores I'll make them watch the video and point out that they could be stuck with somebody asinine enough to shoot their possessions to make a point they should have never had to make.

I read this morning that somebody won a bunch of Grammies and I had no idea who they were. I guess that means I'm getting old.

As for the photo I'm still trying to figure out how it's supposed to be culture. It looks like a rejected cyborg costume from a third rate sci-fi movie.

I know parents who don't make their kids do chores. When my kids gripe about it I tell them that as far as I'm concerned not making kids do lots of chores is child abuse. I feel sorry for kids who don't learn how to work and be partially responsible for maintaing their household. And they can keep their opinions about how awful I am out of my face or they can get lot's more chores to do.

At the same time I'm sure they spout off to their friends and even their friends parents but I just don't care. I don't care if they even put it on Facebook. God knows I spouted off about my parents when I was a teenager. I even wrote epic songs for my band about it and played them publicly. It's part of growing up and learning to have your own opinion. I can handle that because I am the adult in this situation just like my old man did. He sure got frustrated sometimes but he showed me how to behave by doing it and making me do what I needed to do whether I liked it or not. If he had decided to shoot my guitar things would have turned out very badly for all of us. I don't need to shoot their possessions or anything else to prove that the parents are in charge of the household. Apparently this guy does. That's a bad thing not good parenting.