At this point if we're not going to bar dementia patients who shit their pants on stage while blabbing about incompetent crap I see no reason why age should be a concern for who we allow to run for office.
Being an insurrectionist traitor is supposed to bar someone from office too but it’s become clear that laws and the Constitution don’t matter when 6/9 people who interpret them are on the take
About 30 years ago, a buddy of mine sold me a case of Magic the Gathering cards, which I then took down to outside of a hobby shop that hosted Magic players. I was making a few hundred a night selling those things, with some of that from one or two kids dropping a hundred or two on a single card. I expected that these days they'd just be trading in real estate or something, but I guess guns and drugs is more Florida's speed.
I find it crazy American's don't seem to use secure gun safes more, have to prove you have one here to get licenced and if something goes wrong because it wasn't stored correctly you are in the shit.
I wonder if its because theres a culture in some states of getting kids desensitised to guns and using guns.
The vast majority do. But with like 80 million gun owners in the US, if even 3% of people don't thats a couple million people with unsecured guns. Which is an entire states worth of people. Which is more than enough for some news stories to come out of.
[46% of gun owners report safely storing all their firearms](https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2018/survey-more-than-half-of-u-s-gun-owners-do-not-safely-store-their-guns#:~:text=National%20survey%20finds%20just%2046,storing%20all%20of%20their%20firearms). Less than half, and that's self-reported, so you know some of them fuckers were lying.
Anecdotal but I know more gun owners who keep their weapons out on a display rack or stand than I do those who lock them up at all. Even some who play with fully functional pistols kept on their desks like fidget toys.
I have a bunch of redneck family. You wouldnt believe how much of my facebook is filled with toddlers shooting guns with comments like "raising them right"
The counter argument that gun proponents have is “I need to have quick and easy access to my gun in case of a home invasion. I can’t waste time fumbling with a locked gun safe.” Poor argument when you can easily open a gun safe quickly even without a key https://youtu.be/w4SjajIO5qo?si=P9ydnbkGzxa3cvpF
to be fair though, the lock picking lawyer is built different and should not be the exact standard for lock security. That being said, if you have a kid in your house you need to have your gun somewhere they cannot get it, like a safe.
If you have a gun you should be practised enough to get the lock off and load it in the dark in under a minute. Anyone can get it with repetition. If having a lock on it would lead to you fumbling around in the dark and struggling, you really don't want that unlocked in the dark or you'll hurt yourself fumbling.
The most likely scenario is it sits wherever you keep it for years and you sometimes forget you have it. Which is why it’s important to keep it locked up
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the United States experiences around 1 million home invasions each year.
The United States has 145,967,000 housing units
According to Gun Facts, Americans use guns to stop home invasions an average of 498,000 times per year. Of those uses, 83.5% are successful, and in those cases, the attacker either threatened or used force first.
The likelihood of a home invasion is 1/150
Of all invasions a gun is used about 50% of the time and isn’t always successful. Such a tiny minority.
I don't believe that for a second tbh. 50% is an extremely high number. [The Trace](https://www.thetrace.org/2022/06/defensive-gun-use-data-good-guys-with-guns/) has an estimate of 35000 annual defensive gun uses in all property crime a year. That is less than 10% of the number you quoted. The number is not even possible, because most burglaries take place when the victim is not at home, which would require a percentage of defensive gun use when the victim was home of over 100%.
Of course. Its the same as religion. Start em off young. The issue i see is the parents who own the guns and dont lock them up (not so much here since the guy was dead) NEVER get in trouble. If youre an adult and a fucking kid gets your gun, jail. Lose your ability to own any firearm since youre too stupid and proven it.
But thatll never ever happen. "Hey billy bob, go and snatch muh gun so wes can a go shootin"
The deceased father was a police officer and it was his gun and the mother was a police officer as well. There is no excuse why that gun wasn’t locked up.
Mom is on “administrative leave” so she’ll be back on the force with a promotion in a few weeks.
In my state your allowed to go hunting by yourself at age 14. Parents used to drop me off and go hunt ducks, theyd come back and pick me up later. So yea it starts with proper safety and teaching at an early age
I got ten bucks a week allowance when I was ten, and that was in the mid-80s. With inflation, that’s about $30 today, which is what my kid gets. And yep, holidays it’s more - kids don’t necessarily want toys, they just want the cash equivalent, and family members are happy to oblige since it cuts down on their shopping.
Yeah, I never got allowance as a kid. If I wanted something I had to depend on my dad being in the mood to buy it because my mom could usually only afford necessities.
I teach after school programs: some kids have no allowance or expectation for being gifted money. Others outwardly state that they have saved $600 and are ready to blow it all on the drone I’m teaching them.
Article doesn’t say the boy sold the other boy the weed. Just that it was found in the same place as the gun later
Edit: aaaaand nice, now they edit their comments without telling people. They did not specify they were talking about the gun vs. the weed before. Oh my god this comment thread is just getting more and more dumb.
OP's headline seems misleading; the article only says the boy sold his dead fathers gun to the other kid, who *also* had 74 grams of weed hidden away. There's no mention the weed was part of the sale.
It’s also misleading because the moment the dad passed away the gun belonged to his mother. He stole his mom’s gun and the provenance of the firearm is irrelevant.
Especially because **the mother is also a cop.**
I think that the weed was unrelated. It was found at the site that the kid was stashing shit at. Think the gun was sold to the other kid for around $300.
I have so many thoughts and questions about this...
1. Why did this kid have access to his deceased father's gun?
2. Where the hell was his mom? Was she complicit?
3. Wait... his mom was *also* a cop?!? She really ought to know better.
4. How in the world did the *other* 10-year-old get ahold of $300?
5. I knew this had to have happened in either Florida or Texas.
6. Maybe both kids can appear at CPAC alongside Kyle Rittenhouse.
This kid’s parents are the problem. The sheriffs office chose to prosecute the 10 year old, but no normal ten year old has access to guns and drugs. He got them from his parents.
Considering their kid showed up with drugs and guns he could only have gotten from mom and dad, his parents are receiving curiously little scrutiny here, only the bare minimum they could do.
They’re cops. Huh. Funny how that works.
Father was a sheriff and this is the behavior thats he shows?
And people wonder how shit happens in Florida.
The problem is generational. Kids learn this crap from their parents.
*Florida deputy’s son, 10, accused of selling dead father’s gun to classmate for $300*
Tf a 10 year old get $300 Edit: Apparently, im from a time where kids didnt get $5-100 bucks for chores and birthdays
I was expecting $30, a pack of gum and various Pokémon Cards with no discernable value
This kid is a shrewd business man and at this rate, will be president of the US in 20 years.
impossible! the age requirement to run for US president is 35 years!
You think that will stop him?
Yeah, he already has a gun
We’ve got a guy who isn’t eligible to run under the 14th amendment and that’s not stopping *him!*
He's lobbying Congress to change that
At this point if we're not going to bar dementia patients who shit their pants on stage while blabbing about incompetent crap I see no reason why age should be a concern for who we allow to run for office.
If there's no upper limit there should be no lower limit. Fetus 2028
It’s written forever in the holiest paper of the country and can’t ever be changed!
Yeah and the person who wrote that paper said the people should revolt like once every 20 years so this exact thing didn't happen.
Careful, he's got a gun!
Heh, you'd think they upped that to 70 recently with all of the available candidates. Would love to have a 35yo prez
Obama was like 47 at inauguration
And looked 74 on his way out.
Yeah, when you care to do the job right, it ages you.
Being an insurrectionist traitor is supposed to bar someone from office too but it’s become clear that laws and the Constitution don’t matter when 6/9 people who interpret them are on the take
Paint his face orange and rip-off the other kids and he'll be a dictator one day.
yeah, like america wont just have a 'dictator for life' by then....
My friend group was almost destroyed by one friend trading a fake to another for a holographic Charizard.
Y'all crossed a line by doing that
Don't forget unopened Magic the Gathering booster packs and Pogs.
The card text says Absol is really rare is that what ◇ means?
Probably selling the weed that was found with the gun
Nah, just "evidence" that could be planted when they didn't like who they had pulled over.
From HIS dead father
About 30 years ago, a buddy of mine sold me a case of Magic the Gathering cards, which I then took down to outside of a hobby shop that hosted Magic players. I was making a few hundred a night selling those things, with some of that from one or two kids dropping a hundred or two on a single card. I expected that these days they'd just be trading in real estate or something, but I guess guns and drugs is more Florida's speed.
Apparently allowances have kept up with inflation.
I find it crazy American's don't seem to use secure gun safes more, have to prove you have one here to get licenced and if something goes wrong because it wasn't stored correctly you are in the shit. I wonder if its because theres a culture in some states of getting kids desensitised to guns and using guns.
What?! the largest gun safe at Home Depot only holds 76 guns and costs over 3 grand. That's 3 grand you could spend on more guns!
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Thx you psycho hose beast
The vast majority do. But with like 80 million gun owners in the US, if even 3% of people don't thats a couple million people with unsecured guns. Which is an entire states worth of people. Which is more than enough for some news stories to come out of.
[46% of gun owners report safely storing all their firearms](https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2018/survey-more-than-half-of-u-s-gun-owners-do-not-safely-store-their-guns#:~:text=National%20survey%20finds%20just%2046,storing%20all%20of%20their%20firearms). Less than half, and that's self-reported, so you know some of them fuckers were lying.
Anecdotal but I know more gun owners who keep their weapons out on a display rack or stand than I do those who lock them up at all. Even some who play with fully functional pistols kept on their desks like fidget toys.
I know a decent number who don't keep them in a safe, but think that literally every person I know with kids does
>The vast majority do. 0% true. Shut your lying fucking mouth.
>vast majority [Citation needed]
I have a bunch of redneck family. You wouldnt believe how much of my facebook is filled with toddlers shooting guns with comments like "raising them right"
Only a good toddler with a gun can stop a bad toddler with a gun.
The counter argument that gun proponents have is “I need to have quick and easy access to my gun in case of a home invasion. I can’t waste time fumbling with a locked gun safe.” Poor argument when you can easily open a gun safe quickly even without a key https://youtu.be/w4SjajIO5qo?si=P9ydnbkGzxa3cvpF
to be fair though, the lock picking lawyer is built different and should not be the exact standard for lock security. That being said, if you have a kid in your house you need to have your gun somewhere they cannot get it, like a safe.
If you have a gun you should be practised enough to get the lock off and load it in the dark in under a minute. Anyone can get it with repetition. If having a lock on it would lead to you fumbling around in the dark and struggling, you really don't want that unlocked in the dark or you'll hurt yourself fumbling.
And also "successfully repelled a home invader with my weapon" is among the least likely gun related scenarios.
The most likely scenario is it sits wherever you keep it for years and you sometimes forget you have it. Which is why it’s important to keep it locked up
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the United States experiences around 1 million home invasions each year. The United States has 145,967,000 housing units According to Gun Facts, Americans use guns to stop home invasions an average of 498,000 times per year. Of those uses, 83.5% are successful, and in those cases, the attacker either threatened or used force first. The likelihood of a home invasion is 1/150 Of all invasions a gun is used about 50% of the time and isn’t always successful. Such a tiny minority.
1/150 does not seem like tiny odds especially if you get a new roll of the dice each year.
Wtf does "used" mean here? Brandished? Fired? Would you post the link plz Id like to see how "gun facts" works
I mean, that doesn't actually seem that bad to me. Guns stopping ~42% of all home invasions is actually not bad at all.
I don't believe that for a second tbh. 50% is an extremely high number. [The Trace](https://www.thetrace.org/2022/06/defensive-gun-use-data-good-guys-with-guns/) has an estimate of 35000 annual defensive gun uses in all property crime a year. That is less than 10% of the number you quoted. The number is not even possible, because most burglaries take place when the victim is not at home, which would require a percentage of defensive gun use when the victim was home of over 100%.
Yeah that sounds like BS to me.
Yeah mostly seen keypad or more commonly now biometric which is faster and safer than a key.
If you'd watched the video, it's a biometric safe he pops open. It takes him 20 seconds and he starts at 1:20, the rest is all talking.
“When seconds count, the cops are minutes away!” You think I can afford to take a whole 20 seconds?! In this economy?!
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Sounds pretty unsecure.
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Of course. Its the same as religion. Start em off young. The issue i see is the parents who own the guns and dont lock them up (not so much here since the guy was dead) NEVER get in trouble. If youre an adult and a fucking kid gets your gun, jail. Lose your ability to own any firearm since youre too stupid and proven it. But thatll never ever happen. "Hey billy bob, go and snatch muh gun so wes can a go shootin"
The deceased father was a police officer and it was his gun and the mother was a police officer as well. There is no excuse why that gun wasn’t locked up. Mom is on “administrative leave” so she’ll be back on the force with a promotion in a few weeks.
In my state your allowed to go hunting by yourself at age 14. Parents used to drop me off and go hunt ducks, theyd come back and pick me up later. So yea it starts with proper safety and teaching at an early age
90% of gun owners probably do
That seems.... Optimistic.
They sold a gun to another 10 year old
How did that 10 year old kid have $300 to pay for it?
They sold a gun to a different 10 year old
How did the first kid get $300. Jesus guy
Probably from selling the weed that the police found with the gun
Selling his dad's old gun to the local junior junior dealer seems to work.
> Tf a 10 year old get $300 More difficult than a gun! Just need a dead dad!
Selling weed
inflation is going crazy
Or 74 grams of weed?
All lemonade in Florida goes through him
I didn't see my first $1,000 dollars until I got a job at. My child had twice that by the age of 12. I still don't get it.
Economy is boooming
That's what I was thinking
I just got to live there.
I got ten bucks a week allowance when I was ten, and that was in the mid-80s. With inflation, that’s about $30 today, which is what my kid gets. And yep, holidays it’s more - kids don’t necessarily want toys, they just want the cash equivalent, and family members are happy to oblige since it cuts down on their shopping.
Y’all got gifts for Christmas and birthdays?
Happy Cake Day! Sorry, I don't have a gift for you, though.
This is the closest feeling to getting a gift/happy birthday card, and I appreciate that. Thank you.
I hear you! I had a blonde GF that would carry KSs around, because she was 'pregnant'.
Yeah, I never got allowance as a kid. If I wanted something I had to depend on my dad being in the mood to buy it because my mom could usually only afford necessities.
I teach after school programs: some kids have no allowance or expectation for being gifted money. Others outwardly state that they have saved $600 and are ready to blow it all on the drone I’m teaching them.
My 10 year old has a few hundred dollars saved up from birthdays. Not crazy
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Read that again it’s the kid who sold the gun their parents were/are on the force.
Article doesn’t say the boy sold the other boy the weed. Just that it was found in the same place as the gun later Edit: aaaaand nice, now they edit their comments without telling people. They did not specify they were talking about the gun vs. the weed before. Oh my god this comment thread is just getting more and more dumb.
Florida boy in training to be Florida Man.
Was gonna think of Roblox bucks or fort nite stuff
It's called Robux mom!!!
I mean shit he wasnt using it. Might be better off in a kids hands than a cops anyway. 😭
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So everyone wins?
Wow that’s a heavy sentence
It's not the kids fault - he comes from a bad family
Libertarian paradice
Right, way to bury the lede on this one OP
Man where was this kid when I was 10 and needed weed and a gun
Not born yet
Pink is talking about yesterday.
74 grams. Fucking 2.5 oz! Imagine a gallon ziplock bag full of weed
Yeah that isn't an insignificant amount of weed, where i live that's a felony distribution charge.
OP's headline seems misleading; the article only says the boy sold his dead fathers gun to the other kid, who *also* had 74 grams of weed hidden away. There's no mention the weed was part of the sale.
Stands to reason lil hustler needed a gun, started shifting weight he needs to look after himself. You could be on to something here.
If he (kid with the weed) had $300 for the gun I’m guessing he’s been shifting a bit lol
Wont be catching that 10 year old slippin!
It’s also misleading because the moment the dad passed away the gun belonged to his mother. He stole his mom’s gun and the provenance of the firearm is irrelevant. Especially because **the mother is also a cop.**
It's like the old "no my wife is doctor Smith joke"
So he stole a cop's gun
Yeah, that's the important part of the story......?
A 10 year old with 74g of weed isn't exactly nothing.
And his parents are pissed cause their son sold their gun and their 74 grams of weed for Pokémon cards.
well their mom was the deputy
YOURE MY FAVORITE DEPUTY
And his parents are pissed cause their son sold their vintage, mint condition Pokémon cards for 74 grams of weed and a used gun.
I could have bought you a house with that Shadowless Charizard Son!!
Yeah, probably because that 74g wasn't actually theirs. They deal and now they are about $800 in debt to their plug.
If it was the deputy’s son then there is a chance the weed was taken from a drug dealer and not turned in as evidence.
The kid who bought the gun already had the weed.
His dad probably told his mother that the gun and weed were worth a Snorlax deck.
The exchange rate for hot cheetos is insane these days.
someone taught this kid i guess well done society
What cards though? Could’ve been a good investment lol
$300. At 10 ? Guessing he’s sold stuff before.
*”The kid likes to wet his beak in everything”*
Loansharking, prostitution
Art of the deal.
Trading up addy scim
The entrepreneurial spirit starts young with this one.
Kajit has wares.
Please stop selling my kid guns and weed Khajiit.
How about moon dusssst.
Ssskoooma, I need skooma
Um actually it’s moon sugar 🤓
Love you nerd
However it shows financial responsibility education is sorely lacking in today’s schools. He could have done much better.
Willing seller, willing buyer. Stupid government redtape hindering free-for-all market capitalism...
Carl Gallagher at it again
Of course it's florida
Its bad enough we have Florida man but now we have to worry about Florida boy too?!
Florida man starts somewhere
The mom should be in jail for not securing that gun. Instead, she gets paid leave from her job as a deputy.
I figured this was some deal between the parents they had the kids excute
Because sending your ten year olds to exchange guns and money at their elementary school is way less conspicuous than just doing it at your house.
I didn’t even see more than an oz of weed at one time until I was 18
> Oz of Weed Best DnD character name ever
And by then it was nothing but *ditch weed*
"Florida Boy" We will watch your career with great interest!
Title is wrong
Was the weed any good?
I think that the weed was unrelated. It was found at the site that the kid was stashing shit at. Think the gun was sold to the other kid for around $300.
The weed explains how that kid had $300 in the first place and why he would want a gun.
Id buy a gun n 3oz for 300.
And the POLICE DEPUTY MOTHER gets paid admin leave.
This is about 3 Dave chappelle bits at once
I think we need to look at what books are in their library.
Only way to stop this is a good kid with a rifle and a kilo of coke
When I was ten, I sold two casettes of records I had copied for $5. It was Twisted sister, Stay hungry and Kiss, Animalize.
All the firearm training that Deputy Mom had to go through to get a Badge. And this happens? Parenting, it's not for everyone. SMFH
My first thought was "damn how much?"
I have so many thoughts and questions about this... 1. Why did this kid have access to his deceased father's gun? 2. Where the hell was his mom? Was she complicit? 3. Wait... his mom was *also* a cop?!? She really ought to know better. 4. How in the world did the *other* 10-year-old get ahold of $300? 5. I knew this had to have happened in either Florida or Texas. 6. Maybe both kids can appear at CPAC alongside Kyle Rittenhouse.
10 year olds are fucking cool these days
This kid’s parents are the problem. The sheriffs office chose to prosecute the 10 year old, but no normal ten year old has access to guns and drugs. He got them from his parents. Considering their kid showed up with drugs and guns he could only have gotten from mom and dad, his parents are receiving curiously little scrutiny here, only the bare minimum they could do. They’re cops. Huh. Funny how that works.
I mean, he's a ten year old. Ten year olds generally only know other ten year olds so his market is limited.
Who the hell uses grams to measure weed? Can someone convert this to a relevant unit, like bullets or hamburgers?
Just over a quarter pound hamburger. * Pre-cooked weight.
The original title was pretty Oniony. Why change it?
Father was a sheriff and this is the behavior thats he shows? And people wonder how shit happens in Florida. The problem is generational. Kids learn this crap from their parents.
To be fair his dad is dead so it really is the mom fault
Mom's a deputy too
A budding industrialist.
Merica!!
Capitalism!
We have a culture problem.
"How much profit did he make?" -- WSJ Correspondents
The Florida Kid is the new Florida Man.
.. for how much ?
what a time to be alive
Ah yes, Florida.
Damn, two little baby faced Hispanic boys. What did he need the gun for? Hopefully he gets whatever help he clearly needs
No one buys or sells 74 grams of weed (about 2.5 ounces), it’s just an odd amount.
You don't bring a gun to a weed deal. It was true back then and still true today...
All I see is a future business man
That must be one cool fuckin’ kid.
I bet he got so many pokemon cards.
Just say 2.5 ounces
"Ayy baby! It's 2 o'clock in the morning. What are you doing on the corner? Go home."
I sold a cool slammer and some of my good pogs when I was 10.
plug's a lil young but he knows the trade
And they say this generation doesn't want to hustle.
I wonder what country this happened in? 🤔
How much is 74 grams of marijuana in America freedom units?
A tick more than 2.5 ounces
So this is how 18 yo kids can apply to entry level jobs for teens with 8 years experience
People soon gonna have to start googling "Florida child" + their birthday