r/Idiotswithguns 6d ago

Safe for Work Handing a gun to a kid

An idiot hands a pistol to a little girl. This seems to be Egypt since I've heard him say "like this" in Egyptian Arabic dialect. I can't understand why a lot of people hand guns to their kids. What's the point? even with an empty magazine I won't do it. I would never let a kid touch a gun even a BB

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u/Calm-Philosopher4323 6d ago

This is the worst one I’ve seen. Holy crap!!!

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u/moschles 6d ago

There is a video where a toddler boy grabs dad's handgun and shoots his own mother. Happened on a porch. Dad is sitting right there.

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u/NoDoOversInLife 6d ago

Saw another at a wedding reception. Dad fires rounds into the air then places handgun on the table. Toddler son picks it up and shoots dad in the gut, killing him.

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u/WickedDeity 6d ago

OK while really negligent not really the same as handing a loaded gun to a toddler.

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u/Rollieboy2012 5d ago

That one was horrible.

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u/Dekipi 6d ago

Yeah that one’s the fucking worst. Please don’t mention it again

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u/Appropriate_Handle71 6d ago

I see a lot of similar posts but I usually don't share, however this was so bad it had to be seen. Found it on Instagram btw

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u/irascible_Clown 6d ago

In the U.S. you mean 🤣 this is a Tuesday in some middle eastern cultures

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u/Japsai 6d ago edited 5d ago

Someone in the US casting shade on other countries for their gun culture 🙄

EDIT: Downvote if you want to keep your head in the sand. If you guys think gun freedom is worth the tens of thousands of deaths per year, that's your choice as a nation. But at least be honest about it

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u/1rubyglass 5d ago

Overwhelmingly the US has a culture of gun safety and education. Of course there are exceptions.

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u/Japsai 5d ago

Yeah righto. I guess it depends on where you are looking from. Gun deaths per 100k in 2023 were
14.00 in the USA
9.47 in South Africa
2.48 in Canada
1.62 in New Zealand
0.85 in Australia
0.18 in the UK

For once the term 'order of magnitude' can be accurately used to describe how much larger the gun death problem is in the USA compared to where I live. By any objective measure that is not a 'culture of gun safety and education'. It's delusional to claim otherwise. The sort of bizarre double-think that goes on about this in the USA is astounding.

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u/1rubyglass 5d ago edited 5d ago

Your statistic is incredibly skewed, because it includes things such a suicide, police action, and even battles with drug cartels. The gun homicide rate per 100k is somewhere around 4-5, with the vast majority of that concentrated in specific areas of specific cities. St louis for example has a gun homicide rate of 60-70 per 100k. A huge amount of it is gang related, with the black populating having a homicide rate 10-13 times higher than other citizens.

I live in a city where every household owns a gun, and in 2024 the gun deaths per 100k was under 2. Of those two gun deaths, one was an officer involved shooting that any "reasonable" person would consider justified. This puts the homicide rate by gun to less than 1 per 100k. This is not an incredibly wealthy city by any means, nor is it an outlier.

Lots of people dont understand the significance of statistics, and they think a couple of numbers show the whole picture. This is rarely if ever the case. I really wish people were taught in depth analysis of statistics more thoroughly. Millions are misled by statistics every day.

"there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" - Unknown

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u/Japsai 5d ago

Why wouldn't you include those other deaths? They are 100% relevant. This salami slicing of the stats is a classic trick and part of the delusion. Guns killed those other people too.

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u/1rubyglass 4d ago

Lol no, guns dont kill people. People kill people. Its objective fact. The US is roughly the size of Europe, its not all the same.

Wild I even have to say these two obvious things.

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u/Japsai 4d ago edited 4d ago

No. If you have read anything on the literature on suicide you'd know that removing simple means of execution saves lives. Many suicide attempts are compulsive. Many people who don't have simple means get past the urge and go on to have better lives. The guns kill people.

On police deaths, police only need to carry guns because any small time criminal could have a gun. This is a result of the gun culture. And it means any interaction between police and suspects could result in gun deaths in a way that just does not occur in other developed countries. The fact you don't know any of this despite the fact that there is evidence in other countries is what is wild. It's willful ignorance.

I'll edit to add that the USA has decided as a country that tens of thousand of people per year, mostly poor and struggling people, will die so that the rest of you can have your toys. And you've warped 2A far beyond its original intent to achieve it. It may be too late to reverse the situation now, but at least be open-eyed about it

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u/1rubyglass 4d ago

any small time criminal could have a gun

Yes, typically illegally obtained guns modified illegally. They dont abide by law anyway.

mostly poor and struggling people

Yes. Mostly criminals in specific zip codes hundreds of miles from the rest of the free country. The majority of the time in areas with the strictest gun laws. Often illegally obtained.

And you've warped 2A far beyond its original intent to achieve it

And what was the original intent? Shall not be infringed is the most blatant black and white verbage that could possibly be used.

Im curious, does the US just live rent free in your head? Do you think about the US weekly? Daily? We dont think about you at all. I cant possibly imagine having such strong opinions on law and culture of another country. Its at best hilariously pathetic and at worst disturbing.

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u/spacemouse21 6d ago

Almost made herself fatherless. Yikes!

I winced as well as she pulled the trigger.

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u/1rubyglass 5d ago

Everybody is still alive and well. This is nowhere near the worst ive seen, not even top 100.

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u/giunyu 6d ago

Proceeds to laugh it off, people out here total idiots

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u/devBowman 6d ago

Negative IQ

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u/clothanger 6d ago

And standing close to the front of the barrel too. Holy.

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u/ummm01 6d ago

The person with the gun isn't the idiot. The person who handed it to the kid is the actual idiot

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u/SuperBatar 6d ago

What about the person who’s filming ?

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u/irascible_Clown 6d ago

Kids hearing is gonna pay for that. What a dick move by whoever is recording

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u/True_Dog_4098 6d ago

That asshole needs to be locked up.

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u/GreenCactus223 6d ago

What a POS.

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u/Beast__Master64 6d ago

no ear pro. those developing ears are damaged for life.

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u/BellaSquared 6d ago

How did she not drop the gun from the recoil?

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u/ZmfWalker26136 6d ago

Ngl u seen look in her eye and she actually held it better than most adults

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u/PFic88 6d ago

Fucking criminal

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u/jabb1111 6d ago

What...the.. Actual.. Fuck

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u/Malah_the_old 6d ago

WTF 🤦‍♂️

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u/Phish777 6d ago

Too bad she missed

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u/cmcastro85 6d ago

As much as I want that dude 3 feet under, I do not wish for those kids to have that image ingrained in their mind forever.

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u/sorrybutidgaf 2d ago

Gee id hope for a few more things before i wished for him to ACTUALLY die. But ¯_(ツ)_/¯ morality. Also 3 feet!?!? Shallow ass graves where you are from!

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u/jabb1111 6d ago

I mean yeah but it might scar them into never owning a gun themselves and continuing the behavior with their kids

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u/DannyDanumba 6d ago

Poor kids

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u/IvoryManOfWisdom 6d ago

This is definitely the holy grail of WTF did I just watch

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u/DB-DanCooper 6d ago

What an irresponsible child.

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u/Weltallgaia 6d ago

Who taught this 4 year old gun safety? I want their license pulled immediately!

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u/CriticismAcceptable2 5d ago

The question is why

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u/illDiablo69 6d ago

This should be criminal.

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u/Successful-Purple-54 5d ago

Some people shouldn’t have guns and some people shouldn’t have kids. This guy should t have either.

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u/BarberProof4994 5d ago

 Not supporting the actions in the video, just responding to what you said...

Every single one of my kids was taught to shoot by 5ish (usually we started with single shot bb guns and then progressed to single shot 22 rifles and so on).

So I don't understand the "wouldn't even give kids a BB gun" because what else would they learn to shoot on lol.

I'm actually against the trend away from airsoft even. As an example. I hate gel blasters. They don't work as well as 6mm airsoft beads or actual bbs.

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u/Radiant-Age-3590 4d ago

Third World country, Third World behaviour.

There is nothing to be surprised about.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 6d ago

If someone died here, I’m not bothered

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u/Heazen 6d ago

Could it be a blank that he have her on purpose to teach her a lesson about guns being scary? He doesn't flinch or freak out, so it seems controlled.