Mostly because they have brains.

I'm fucking jealous. Don't get me wrong, my kids are bright, but my ten year old got expelled for taking a steak knife to school - something I'd never in a million years have suspected she'd do. But one of her friends thought it would be funny, and you know how you or I might joke about telling our boss to go fuck himself, but we'd never actually do it? My daughter knew better, but in that moment all she thought about was clowning around.

She is already the most independent, hardest working kid I've known. I raised her to be that way and I'm damn proud of her. Some day she's going to be a force to be reckoned with. It's just like most children she's a fucking idiot sometimes. It's not her fault. I was a fucking idiot when I was a kid too. And based on stories I've heard, so was my dad. And then you look at the science and it turns out nearly every kid is a fucking idiot because a child's brain isn't an adult brain. And for some reason us parents tend to be the last to know.

You and I feel similarly about what sane gun laws should be and I don't really look to argue about that, but damn as one parent to another every time I hear someone say their child would never do some stupid thing or another because they are smart or raised right, I just think to myself that person either hit the jackpot or they are naive about how kids' brains work. I've raised five kids. Every damn one of them has done at least one idiotic thing I never in a million years believed they would do.

So don't ever rely solely on your kids' intelligence or adherence to rules to keep them safe. You don't ever want their moment of idiocy to involve a firearm. Best of fortunes my friend - to you and your kids.

which they couldn’t arm and fire if their lives depended on it

Do not underestimate children.

And when shit like this comes up, I’m screaming, “How did a 10-yo have access to a GUN!?”

Hang around here long enough, and someone is bound to respond and try to defend it. Has happened to me multiple times. Apparently thinking that children shouldn't have access to firearms, period, is a controversial take in the US now.

Even my home defense gun is in a biometric safe in my nightstand... Two of the others have trigger locks, and the other two are flintlocks

What if a 10 year old breaks into my house and tries to steal my "one home protection gun" should i blast him? Let's say he is large for his age and it's a dark and foggy night?

Oh thank God! I'm glad this dangerous substance was removed off the streets. Dozens of kids could have gotten high from that. /s

I probably would have bought Bionicles, still sad they got discontinued

Legos and SNES games for me. Probably more the Legos. I used to look through the catalogs longly, wishing I could afford the bigger city, jungle, and pirate sets.

Nowadays I still look longingly, but at more sets and a little less at the city sets.

Ya but with a gun you can steal all the gi joes you want

It’s honestly kind of sad. What 10 year old is buying guns and 74 fucking grams of weed?

Bugsy Malone II: Bugs Harder

Kid might simply be a mule for an adult buyer

That removes ALL other factors, and simplifies too much, it doesn't ask why a 10 year old kid had 74g of marijuana in the first place.

Guns are part of the issue, drugs are part of the issue, family and social life are part of the issue, finances are part of the issue

Just going "gun bad" solves nothing.

I do wish the US would institute proper gun control systems, like a national registry, with random checkups on how guns are stored. It won't happen, the gun lobby is too strong.

I am glad I live in northern Europe where we don't have the obsession with guns that the US has.

Seriously! I was just thinking this was the most Florida headline I had heard this year.