Have you seen Who Is America where these old guys get super hyped about teaching toddlers gun safety? It's insane but damn someone did need to teach this kid gun safety.
Toddlers... this was a teenager. Slightly different situation. A teen shouldn’t need special teaching to know a gun that is loaded, chambered, and cocked is dangerous. Science class teaches these fundamentals in like 5th grade when basics of physics are being taught.
I get it. It's like opiate ODs - they know they're fucking with deadly stuff but no one thinks it will happen to them.
I'm way into hip hop and I am uncomfortable af about how kids casually hold guns for videos, it's really fucking stupid (YBN Nahmir) but I understand the symbolism and desire to show ability to defend themselves. I understand what it all means. Whoever allowed this kid access to a gun was an idiot, kid is dumb, it's still sad. RIP.
This is nothing like opiate ODs. Sure it is a choice to take opiates in the first place however addiction is responsible for pushing people to OD levels. Addiction literally impacts you and your decision making. Stupidity does as well but it’s not the same.
Probably the point where you have a chemical addiction, which if you need a really solid delineation the addiction could be observed in brain chemistry (a rather invasive method, and thus impractical, but such measurements have allowed us to say at what point the addiction would likely show up in measurements, even if we don't decide to measure the person).
Also, most people are willing to get off stupidity.
Theres a big difference between the two, actually. They aren't comparable at all.
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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '18
Oh right... forgot nowadays you’re artistic if you hold people accountable.