Fun With Guns: I’ve Got Your Back Edition
Jamie Gilt is a pro-gun activist in Florida. Okay, maybe I should change “is” to “was.”
A high-profile pro-gun activist was rushed to hospital after she was shot in the back by her four-year-old son after he found her pistol lying on the back seat of her truck.
To make this even more ironic, a month ago she took to Facebook and said:
Tell ya what, Jamie, you give us your gun and we’ll let you keep your kid. You just can’t have both.
Thanks to John for the heads up.
And how jacked up was the little darling about shooting Mommy?
1CPS should take the kid. She endangered him in more ways than one. Leaving a gun in the back seat was stupid enough and then she compounded it by not having the kid strapped into a booster seat.
2Sounds like the four year old good guy was just protecting himself from an irresponsible bad gal nut-job.
3Dear God. Do these people actually love their handguns more than they love their own young children?
4Great job of protecting your son, lady. But at least he only has to live with the trauma of shooting his Mom and not the horror of having killed her.
5I wonder if she has health care insurance to cover her treatment. The bills are going to be high.
6My guess is she would choose her gun over her child.
7Guns or gonads. Choose children or guns but not both. Sorry, dumbass.
8Sweet Jesus … take the guns if you can’t take the steering wheel!!
9I am at a total loss as to how all of this gun insanity is going to be stopped or, at least, greatly diminished!!
According to one source, the child will not be charged with a crime. Really!
10Apparently Mom, at least, is a fan of “My Parents Open Carry”, ( http://www.amazon.com/Parents-Open-Carry-Brian-Jeffs/dp/1618081012 ), but apparently junior hasn’t been listening carefully. Time to give junior a time-out.
(The comments at amazon are worth a read.)
11Have no fear Micr is here.
I’m working on a design to child proof the trigger mechanism. Should be done in a day or two. 😉
12Mommy why didn’t you put me in my safety seat? Mommy? Mommy?
Mommy, I think I found something!
Bang!
Well, that certainly got mommy’s attention!
Seriously, though, I’ve read this on AOL and the comments are totally anti-mom and anti-gun. Why didn’t she strap her darling child into the 5 point safety seat? Well, inasmuch as mommy won’t let anyone mess with her Second A rights, she also will not let anyone mess with her as to the blessings of a small child in a safety seat. Check it out. There is a segment of the population that is too the far right of Attila the Hun on things such as safety helmets for bike riders, safety seats for kids in cars, seat belts for the driver, you name it. These people don’t know where suicide ends and homicide begins.
13“trump’s your fear”
14True that.
Just a thought, perhaps her child is better protected far far away from gun toting mommy.
15So Pistol Packin’ Mama was shot by Pistol Packin’ Toddler ’cause Mama don’t ‘low no gun restrictions, by Jeebus! Hope rehab is long, hard and painful and forces her to ruminate on it.
16In South Dakota,Native children are routinely taken from their parents and sent to foster homes belonging to friends of the Guv. There doesn’t seem to have to be any real reason except to make money for friends of the Guv. Uncle Sam is suing the snot out of South Dakota and still Dakota insists on defying the Fed. One might think ehdangering children with guns might be a reasonable excuse to take kids away from parents,but one would prolly be wrong,if the parents be whitey wingnuts.
17@maggie. My wife, the former ER doctor tells me they have names for people who don’t use safety equipment like car seats and helmets. Organ Donors
18Never tell your kid no ice cream when he’s packin’.
19Are they going to try him as an adult? Or can he hide behind the stand your ground law?
Good one epo.
Paul, when I worked in an ER we had a similar name for motorcycles, ‘donorcycles.’
The Amazon link provided by eyesoars (Love your name.) is great. I read comments, reviews, etc. That’s the best part.
20Didn’t TWMDBS do a story on My Parents Open Carry awhile back? I’d look tonight but I am way past beddy by time.
21Thanks, Obama
22Jamie Got a Gun is more than an Aerosmith song apparently.
23Thanks, eyesoars, for the Amazon link. As Debbo says, the reviews are the best part–they’re hilarious! Check out Amazon’s top positive/critical reviews (liberal trolls are the best!):
Top positive review:
Not quite as compelling as the first book, ‘What Would Jesus Carry?”
Top critical review:
really ties up all the loose ends left by “My Parents Are First Cousins”
24JJ, this is all over the TV around here (D.C. metro region). It seems mom will be charged with a misdemeanor for leaving a gun where a child could get it, but I haven’t heard a thing about any violations of leaving a small child without a safety seat. Unfortunately, misdemeanors usually mean only a slap on the wrist. If anyone in the WMDBS knows otherwise, I would like to know!
25At least it wasn’t Iowa, where it could have been the toddler’s own AK doing the damage. Where people get the idea that toddlers are capable of responsibly owning firearms, I do not know.
I know, the same place this judge got his notion that children can defend themselves in court! http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2016/03/04/3756675/immigration-judge-children-can-represent-themselves/
26I’ll bet that this dimwit is also a jesus freak. So being delusional about that makes her open to the delusion that a gun is useful. What good are they except for shooting yourself or being shot by your kid??? For self protection!!! But self protection is a myth, for most of the people here! In my self defense coarse for women I would demonstrate just how worthless guns are. I would give them the advantage of knowing I was going to attack and put them on the floor, they just had to use there gun (not real) to stop me. Only one did so by cheating…she shot me BEFORE I attacked!!!
27All the others were attacked and their guns taken away…..and I can do the same to any man without martial training and carrying a gun!
Well, she should either lose the guns or her kids.
28She obviously can’t take care of both at the same time.
The lord is my shepherd,I shall not want
My kid is wanted for shooting this ____(mom)
Why didn’t authorities get in the way?
They were doing knobbers on the NRA. 🙂
No offense intended to TWMDBS ladies
29Not only can preschoolers be responsible with a handgun, but according to this long-time immigration judge, now senior Justice Dept. official, toddlers can learn immigration law and represent themselves in court! Dang, and to think I was happy when my toddlers learned to tie their shoes!
30https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/can-a-3-year-old-represent-herself-in-immigration-court-this-judge-thinks-so/2016/03/03/5be59a32-db25-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html
@Sam in San Antonio
Oh Sam of your are an Aerosmith fan then you need to hear, if you haven’t, the Bob Rivers Show version, Cheney’s Got a Gun. An oldie, but a goody that still brings a tear to my eye.
31Shouldnt that read, “My right to endanger my child with a gun trumps your fear of my gun?”
32Micr@30: Cheney’s got a gun is superb ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXAzAgb4pA ), and the voicing particularly good.
Glad other folks enjoyed the ‘My Parents Open Carry’ reviews. The reviews are possibly the best part of Amazon, but certainly the funniest. (E.g., the binder product reviews after Mitt’s “binders full of women”.)
33From her FB page, I believe she was boasting about how excited the boy was about shooting. Montag used her expression: “jacked up.” Sounds to me as if the boy was just being curious. About a year ago, there was a story about an Oklahoma couple who took their daughter to a gun range where she attempted to fire a machine gun but killed the instructor when the weapon recoiled. Shouldn’t there be some sort of regulation to prevent kids from learning to shoot a gun? The ability to fire a gun and the maturity to do the right thing are two different things. (I know – 2A uber alles.)
34Yet another candidate for those re-education camps that fright wingers endorse through conspiracy theories and projection. I’ll hand it to them, they are correct. They are in serious need of re-education or basic education. No one would wish to further traumatize the four year old boy more than he has already been traumatized. I would hope that Ms Gilt agrees and would willingly attend parenting classes for her son’s best interests, as well as attend a legitimate gun safety course that specializes in all the technology available to protect children and gun owners.
35And she wonders why we’re afraid of her guns?
36The song is very good and very true.
37“Your son’s right to shoot you trumps your right to tell him No.”
And–weaving past the prohibitions against Language, “If you weren’t such a stone [word rhyming with witch] with a gun-slinging brat, you wouldn’t have to protect yourself against anybody.”
There was a time when it was safer (not safe, safer) for parents to teach an older child to shoot. Fewer people, more space between them, child showing some maturity and the physical and mental ability to shoot *under direct supervision by an adult who was a responsible gun owner.”
The usual age when I was a kid was 8-11 to start them with a BB gun and then progress to a single-shot .22 rifle if the kid showed the right behaviors. NEVER before seven (though some people had stories from pioneer days, they weren’t universally believed.) It was a town, but on the edge of a lot of rural. My mother learned to shoot before she was a teenager (they lived out in the country in the 1920s in S. Texas.)
But there was not the ubiquitous presence of gun violence in the media (what media???), or the number of guns on the streets overall. Bonnie & Clyde aside, most people were not running around shooting people. It’s different now. The more crowded it is, the less safe it is. The easier weapons are to use–the lighter, the more automatic–the less safe it is.
That woman is an idiot.
38Deserves a new country/western song…
“Mama was a pistol & I’m a son of a gun”
“Ballad of the Loaded Diaper”
“45 Caliber At 45 Months”
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