Gun Range Plans to Host Children’s Parties: Why yes, in fact, it is in Texas
Get Paid For Letting Soldiers Shoot At And Beat You: The Picatinny Arsenal, an Army research and development facility in New Jersey, is hiring human guinea pigs to be attacked with rubber bullets, lasers, batons and other (hopefully) non-lethal weapons.
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Ah, those Texans. And the rest of the country subsidizes the state, too. (Like most majority-Republican states, they take in more in federal funding than they pay in taxes.)
Why didn’t we just let the south secede, again?
Vicar, I’d like to see those stats. Everything I’ve seen shows lots more money going into Liberal-controlled states. Last I heard, Texas had a surplus.
It’s old, but here’s some stats from 2004…
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html
There was a major Tax Foundation study of this back in 2005, and there have been several follow-ups since. (Mostly on the liberal side, since the numbers tend to be good talking points for their side.)
Here’s a decent, relatively recent account of the breakdown, from a more conservative news source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2690371/posts.
Top ten states getting more from the Feds than they pay in:
New Mexico: $2.03
Mississippi: $2.02
Alaska: $1.84
Louisiana: $1.78
W. Virginia: $1.76
N. Dakota: $1.68
Alabama: $1.66
S. Dakota: $1.53
Virginia: $1.51
Kentucky: $1.51
Notably liberal states — New York, $0.79; New Jersey, 0.61; Massachussets, $$0.82; California, $0.78 — tend to be on the other side of the equation.
Because having kids shoot at targets at a birthday party will turn them into killers later in life? Yeah I’m sure there are many studies showing that correlation.
No, because 8-year-olds aren’t going to pay attention to safety lectures, and any shooting range with party rooms is probably going to have both a fairly relaxed attitude towards alcohol AND insufficient staff to pay attention to a bunch of kids on sugar highs. This is an accident waiting to happen, in other words.
Good. This’ll keep a few more lawyers off the streets.
The best way to protect kids from guns is to make sure they know how to handle them safely, and that they aren’t toys. You’re making assumptions about alcohol and safety procedures. Have you ever BEEN on a gun range?
Tim: I have no problem with eight-year-olds at gun ranges. I have a HUGE problem with unsupervised, or under-supervised, eight-year-olds at gun ranges.
The gun range says that if the parent-to-child ratio is under 1-to-1, they’ll have range safety officers there to make sure that there ARE as many adults as kids.
So, because of that, I agree with you, and I don’t have any problem with this.
I have to wonder about this, though: seems to me assuring a 1/1 ratio could get prohibitively expensive…