Timeline for My 16 year old daughter got a speeding ticket
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| Sep 5, 2017 at 23:26 | comment | added | Pharap | @ChrisW ... the fact her previous crime was speeding indicates to me that she is either excited by danger or likes to show off. Neither of which are good character traits to have when being in charge of a gun. | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 23:25 | comment | added | Pharap | @ChrisW She could attempt to acquire one though. Doing it legally would be difficult but not impossible. IANAL but it appears that she'd just have to file a petition at a juvenile court to be considered 'not a minor', and then she'd be free to purchase a gun and keep it at home or in her car and it would be completely legal. (Though I'm not sure she'd be worried about acquiring one illegally if she wanted one.) I admit my argument relies on a few assumptions about character, but ... | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 20:03 | comment | added | ChrisW | @Pharap I imagined a gun as locked (and not "wielded") when it's not in use. I wan't recommending she be given one, to carry, loaded and unsupervised: only taught to use one, at a range. | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 19:49 | comment | added | Pharap | @ChrisW Usually, but then there's the aftermarth. You then have a 16 year old who isn't responsible enough to drive a car without speeding suddenly able to shoot a gun. I wouldn't want that person to get hold of a gun - if they can ignore driving laws, they can easily ignore gun safety rules, and that's just asking for someone to get shot. | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 19:24 | comment | added | ChrisW | @MisterPositive Don't you think that shooting instructors (and driving instructors) are usually able to teach youngsters, without allowing accidents and getting themselves killed? | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 16:09 | comment | added | user29389 | @Pharap you point about the gun. | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 13:46 | comment | added | user29389 | @Pharap I agree completely | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 4:05 | comment | added | Pharap | I agree with everything but teaching her to use a gun. I understand why you're saying it's a good idea and I do agree to an extent, but if she isn't mature enough to recognise why her speeding offence was wrong I'm not sure I'd trust her to obey the rules for wielding a gun. | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 7:28 | comment | added | ChrisW | @Xen2050 When someone handed me a gun we were given appropriate lessons and supervision. If she sees people are serious about gun safety, she too might learn from them to treat safety seriously; ditto the knowledge that someone (e.g. her dad) sees the (cars and guns) as related somehow. Some of the lessons e.g. "be careful where you point that thing (it's forbidden to risk pointing it at anybody even for fun)" are applicable to both car and gun, so might be mutually reinforcing. | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 1:36 | comment | added | Xen2050 | For a 16-year old who's shown bad judgement with dangerously fast speeding, I don't think it's a very good idea to hand them a gun. She's already been taught about driving safely & didn't, would firearms lessons really turn out any different, aside from a louder noise? | |
| Sep 1, 2017 at 18:56 | comment | added | user29389 | I would vote for this again if I could. | |
| Sep 1, 2017 at 18:54 | history | edited | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 1, 2017 at 13:25 | comment | added | user29389 | An interesting, useful, perspective. | |
| Sep 1, 2017 at 13:23 | history | answered | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |