It's not just parenting. There are crap parents worldwide, yet this only regularly happens in one place.

E: downvote all you want. Remove my comment if you want. You know it to be true. This is a US thing. Stop worshiping your guns.

And if you are to have them, keep them in a safe, inaccessible to children, when not in use. The fact that this is a controversial statement to Americans is insane.

You can't just handwave away gun problems as "oh it's the parent's fault, nothing can be done"

I got beat regularly, and my stepfather at the time used to do stuff like make me wait in the basement for 30 mins, then he'd slowly walk down the stairs with his belt unbuckled so we could hear the jingling in each step, then he'd tell us some scriptures and say this hurt him more than us.

Then if you cried right away it was faking, but if you held on too long it was you being rebellious and stubborn, so my brother and I learned to start faking our cries after the 6th or 7th hit.

I told that to friends as an adult as what I thought was a kinda funny story, and they properly realized I was abused in a somewhat sadistic way and pointed it out to me.

They weren't calling me out for having a different environment, they were correcting my incorrect belief that it was normal or acceptable.

People are doing the same for you. You made it out safely, but giving unstable teens access to guns is definitely a risk that probably shouldn't be taken. Survivor bias isn't an excuse to say it's fine.

Well fuck me for being born into a different environment ig. Mass downvoting

Are you sure that is the reason? Maybe it could be that posting that 13 is a good age for gun ownership in a thread about a 13 year old who used it wildly inappropriately? You are entitled to think what you want, I just personally find it a little distasteful everytime there is a gun death to make justifications about the system that allowed it to happen. I imagine others agree.

absolutely insane age to have access to a gun unsupervised lmfao

I need to get some sleep. I read that as

It is legal to hunt 12 year olds in some states

And thought this 13-year old had a gun after the age he needed it for protection...lmao