SO!!! That was intense.
The basic issue of this thread appears to be the fact that he used a gun to trash his daughters laptop. Forgetting any and all parenting issues for a moment, lets just focus on the fact that he used a gun to trash a laptop. Oh, and that he also used hollow tip rounds.
Seriously. The kind designed to do maximum damage to someone's anything. Why are these allowed? Why the french expletive are these allowed? What is wrong with this horrible horrible country called america? Citizens can acquire .45's and load them with hollow tip rounds. I... ergh... nyurf...
Okay. Let me give some backstory. I live in DC. The great shining capital. Each year over a hundred people die due to gunshot wounds in the DC metropolitan area alone. My wife's uncle was executed by a gunshot to the back of the head. It was called a case of mistaken identity, because he was widely known as being extremely nice. Basically, he got killed by a gun, from a distance, because some punk thought he was someone else.
Every week in the papers I see further examples of why having loose gun laws DOES. NOT. WORK. When you get a culture where it is okay to take a weapon, a handgun, the kind of gun that is designed for the sole purpose of ending the life of another human being, then something is wrong. Something is failing. If he had pored coke on it it would have been fine. Dropped it in the river? Fine. Thrown it in the bin after dropping a rock on it? Fine. If he had taken a baseball bat to it I would have been a little freaked but fine.
But he decided to shoot it. And everyone around him probably thinks that what he did is fine. Just participating in a violent victimizing system, perfectly cool, boy he sure taught her a lessen didn't he?
That all being said, I question the lessen too. I think he really needs to be asking himself why his daughter feels this way. Teens, despite being pretty stupid, rarely take such drastic action without cause. While the father rationally and it seems accurately addresses his daughters concerns, he then turns around and blows up her laptop. That, to me, speaks of some issues all around. Odds are his daughter is just using the chores as a fighting point to try and express some of the issues actually bothering her that she is probably having trouble articulating. Yea. I'm being a pompous ass and judging someone else's parenting. But seeing as how one day my kids are gonna have to grow up with your kids, I don't see too much problem in telling you that you're DOING IT WRONG.
Edit: I would like to make it clear that I am not saying, per se, that the father is a bad parent. I'm just saying he could do better. Much better in some cases. He has had problems with this before and despite the relatively harsh punishment dealt couldn't stop them. Which means the problem, whatever it was (probably not chores since odds are he really was right about those) did not go away and is still there. He, as the parent, should figure out what the issue actually is and address it instead of blowing up his daughters laptop and making any and all issues worse.
The basic issue of this thread appears to be the fact that he used a gun to trash his daughters laptop. Forgetting any and all parenting issues for a moment, lets just focus on the fact that he used a gun to trash a laptop. Oh, and that he also used hollow tip rounds.
Seriously. The kind designed to do maximum damage to someone's anything. Why are these allowed? Why the french expletive are these allowed? What is wrong with this horrible horrible country called america? Citizens can acquire .45's and load them with hollow tip rounds. I... ergh... nyurf...
Okay. Let me give some backstory. I live in DC. The great shining capital. Each year over a hundred people die due to gunshot wounds in the DC metropolitan area alone. My wife's uncle was executed by a gunshot to the back of the head. It was called a case of mistaken identity, because he was widely known as being extremely nice. Basically, he got killed by a gun, from a distance, because some punk thought he was someone else.
Every week in the papers I see further examples of why having loose gun laws DOES. NOT. WORK. When you get a culture where it is okay to take a weapon, a handgun, the kind of gun that is designed for the sole purpose of ending the life of another human being, then something is wrong. Something is failing. If he had pored coke on it it would have been fine. Dropped it in the river? Fine. Thrown it in the bin after dropping a rock on it? Fine. If he had taken a baseball bat to it I would have been a little freaked but fine.
But he decided to shoot it. And everyone around him probably thinks that what he did is fine. Just participating in a violent victimizing system, perfectly cool, boy he sure taught her a lessen didn't he?
That all being said, I question the lessen too. I think he really needs to be asking himself why his daughter feels this way. Teens, despite being pretty stupid, rarely take such drastic action without cause. While the father rationally and it seems accurately addresses his daughters concerns, he then turns around and blows up her laptop. That, to me, speaks of some issues all around. Odds are his daughter is just using the chores as a fighting point to try and express some of the issues actually bothering her that she is probably having trouble articulating. Yea. I'm being a pompous ass and judging someone else's parenting. But seeing as how one day my kids are gonna have to grow up with your kids, I don't see too much problem in telling you that you're DOING IT WRONG.
Edit: I would like to make it clear that I am not saying, per se, that the father is a bad parent. I'm just saying he could do better. Much better in some cases. He has had problems with this before and despite the relatively harsh punishment dealt couldn't stop them. Which means the problem, whatever it was (probably not chores since odds are he really was right about those) did not go away and is still there. He, as the parent, should figure out what the issue actually is and address it instead of blowing up his daughters laptop and making any and all issues worse.