Comments on: Little Girl, Big Gun [Video]

By: Shawn Pickett

Shawn Pickett — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:43:48 +0000

I don’t see the problem, she’s obviously been trained how to handle the weapon properly. Something that was common up until the last 50 years or so. Frankly, I think society would be better off if people were trained to properly handle weapons.

By: Pete Green

Pete Green — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:41:30 +0000

Adults become soldiers to protect us – not children – only in Africa can you see the true affects of child soldiers.
Lets keep childhood for at least 12 years and not let them worry about invasion.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:40:27 +0000

Unfortunately Jimmy Rodgers, with the right of free speech comes a great responsibility which neither you nor main stream media seem to be willing to accept.
An AR-15 is NOT an assault rifle. A weapon must be capable of selective fire to be considered an assault rifle. The National Firearms Act of 1934 pretty much makes your chances of owning a selective fire weapon 0%. Lets say you were able to own one, starting cost of the rifle alone would be around $7000.00, not to mention the cost of a lawyer, tax stamp, and oh yea your local law enforcement chief must sign off on it. Think you can buy one the street? Let me know how that works out for ya! Think you can modify one to fire full auto ….. your right, but chances of the modified weapon will jam, be uncontrollable or even injure the operator are greater than them being able to hurt anyone with it first. Military individual weapons with the provision to fire from the shoulder in full auto have pretty much been done away with to only be replaced with 3 round bursts. Why? I’m glad you asked! Because the most highly trained personnel could not hit the targets on full auto, and the only reason they still have 3 round burst is because the sound of full auto is more effective than the bullets coming from the rifle.
The 5.56 round, which 95+% of ar-15’s are, are not very powerful. In fact most states outlaw 5.56 for deer hunting because it is not humane, the round is more likely to only injure the deer than to kill it. Which leads to why the military chooses to continue the use of this round. 1 dead enemy removes 1 person total from the battlefield, 1 injured enemy takes 1-2 other people to assist, effectively removing 2-3 people total from the battlefield. So, if you are going to be shot, then a 5.56 has a higher survivability rate than a much more commonly available 10mm hand gun.
So because it looks like a military style rifle, but does not function like a military style rifle, then it must be a military style rifle? Right? WRONG! Seems like a classic case of judging a book by it’s cover! Your right, but, YOU ARE THE ONE REINFORCING STEREOTYPES! And I agree with you again, this is possibly the most frightening thing I’ve ever seen. Not the video, but the ignorance and fear that you and other people like you continue to spread without the willingness to educate yourselves about the “evil black rifle”.
P.S.
More power to any woman who takes the initiative to learn something that most people feel they shouldnt.

By: Tech Babe

Tech Babe — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:48:41 +0000

Impressive…I can take the entire company down in under 20 seconds by installing a virus…(just sayin’)

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:52:38 +0000

That is great! Nice to see a girl breaking stereotypes and learning to handle a weapon effectively.

She won’t have to worry about lowlifes.

By: Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:36:45 +0000

@out

that’s the most fearmongery thing i’ve ever heard (well maybe not THE MOST)

i know a number of people who have lived in fascist states and i’m pretty sure we don’t live in one….unless it’s some kind of benevolent fascism….

i have never in my life felt that i needed a gun (except maybe on the firing range…would be rather awkward without one)

By: Out

Out — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:23:57 +0000

@ Jimmy Rogers

Would that be the same army that has occupied Iraq? (I assume you are against that, as am I.) And the very same police that tase people who ask the wrong questions and shoot people in the back while they are running away?

Or maybe the IRS goons who will kick in your door to collect your portion of the BAILOUT BILL.

We live in a fascist state Jimmy.

You need to go get yourself a gun right now.

By: Adam Towne

Adam Towne — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:16:30 +0000

You appear to be showing a complete ignorance of what you are talking about. Something akin to saying “your printer needs its TCP/IP settings updated to print in color.” The rifle is a semi automatic AR-15, it cannot fire in full auto, it fires a small round, only slightly larger than a 22 long rifle, which is used to hunt rabbits. The difference in the rounds is the 223, has a more power behind it, but is still a small bullet. This is basically the same as any other hunting rifle, except it is black, it LOOKS LIKE a military rifle and it fires small bullets. However, the actual working components of the gun are not the same, it is not a military weapon. In the same way that sliding a macintosh cover over a dell computer does not make your dell computer a macintosh.

She does not have an assault rifle, and by the way, there is no such thing as an assault weapon, it is a made up term. You may wish to look up the testimony of the head of BATF before congress where he tells them that an assault weapons ban would be very difficult to enforce because the term has no actual meaning. I am sorry I do not have a link available at the moment.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:00:49 +0000

Hmm,
I didn’t know about the death and violence culture and I’ve lived in the US for 49 years.

I do know that cars kill way more people than guns.
Do you drive?
How much safety training have you had for your killing machine?

B
(full disclosure: I’ve been around guns since I was a kid, and have been injured by kitchen knives. I’ve also done a lot of training on keeeping myself alive in bad car situations (and used some of it).

By: Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:59:06 +0000

…the army (and other armed forces)…the police…

By: thesim

thesim — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:54:18 +0000

“DIBS when she is 18!!!”

Damn, I’m too late.

But seriously, all our kids should be taught that. who else is going to protect our freedom?

By: Engineer

Engineer — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:36:34 +0000

Just because it is an assult rifle doesn’t mean it is fully automatic. That is an AR-15, the civilian version of the M-16. It is semi-automatic, and perfectly legal.