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October 17, 2018, 05:22 PM | #1 |
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"Mom did it" says guy with rifle in bag at airport
Yep, some people just can't take responsibility. The TSA found a rifle in a guy's carry-on baggage at the Baltimore/DC airport. The story just refers to it as a "collapsible rifle." Looks like a Kel-Tec Sub-2000 to me. The 22-year old blamed it on his mother. He said she packed his bag. If true, who would rat out their mom? If not true, it's even worse. BTW, at 22, he's old enough to do his own packing.
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October 17, 2018, 09:35 PM | #2 |
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You don't understand. At 22 years of age, he is a product of our educational system ... which teaches that, no matter what the issue, it's ALWAYS somebody else's fault.
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October 17, 2018, 10:34 PM | #3 |
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The kid was an idiot for not knowing what was in his bag, mom or not.
The real issues is that many weapons have been taken through security without detection by TSA or their private equivalent.
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October 18, 2018, 07:12 AM | #4 |
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I call BS on this 22 yo looser ... who doesn’t double or triple check their bag for all needed travel items prior to walking out of the house. When I have my CZ Scorpion folded up in my bag I know it when I lift the bag. You can feel it through the backpack ... what a tool
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In a previous life, I did a lot of traveling. Based on the number of times I had to provide colleagues with things, I can assure you that a whole bunch of people don't bother to single check, much less double or triple check what they are taking. There are a whole lot of people who are not good travelers.
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October 18, 2018, 03:21 PM | #7 | |
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Again, what kind of guy potentially puts his mother at risk to minimize his own responsibility? Hint --- it's a rhetorical question. |
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October 18, 2018, 04:41 PM | #8 |
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Wow. So now in this new, PC, millennial age, it's okay to throw your mom under the proverbial bus. Not that it's surprising that honor and loyalty, especially in relation to one's mother, is apparently an artifact of a rapidly receding past, but just wow.
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October 18, 2018, 06:00 PM | #9 |
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Well I bet he just lost all his guns for being an idiot. Maybe that’s a good thing in this case
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October 18, 2018, 07:14 PM | #10 |
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You don't understand. At 22 years of age, he is a product of our educational system ... which teaches that, no matter what the issue, it's ALWAYS somebody else's fault.
That is exactly right. Public education is socialist indoctrination. |
October 18, 2018, 07:23 PM | #11 |
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His mother didn't violate any laws. The law says a passenger shall not bring a firearm onto an aircraft in a carry-on bag. It doesn't matter who packed the bag, it's the passenger who commits the violation when he/she passes through security with a firearm.
The unanswered questions are: Where was he going that he needed or wanted a firearm; why would his mother have packed a firearm in her little darling's carry-on bag unless he told her he wanted/needed a gun; why would a 22-year old embark on a trip without knowing what his mother had packed in his suitcase? I confess to being mystified by the entire incident. I don't think my mother (or father) packed a suitcase for me after I hit about ten years of age. |
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I'm sure mom packed his bag. She wanted the 22 year old freeloader out of the house. That's one way to do it!
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This guy's mom should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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October 20, 2018, 06:45 PM | #15 |
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No self respecting parent would send Jr. off with a Kel-Tec
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The mother didn't carry the firearm to an airport and attempt to carry it through security screening and onto an airplane. She didn't break any laws. Sonny boy is the one who committed the offense. If anyone is to be prosecuted, it's the person who committed the offense. |
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October 22, 2018, 09:31 AM | #17 |
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You can't expect a guy to pack for himself just because he's 22. He was probably very busy taking selfies and applying dolphin-safe pomade to his hipster beard.
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My vote goes for his trying to throw his mother under the bus. In my experience of his generation, they do not take responsibility for their actions, especially if it involves a possible record/fine or jail time.
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October 24, 2018, 09:06 AM | #20 |
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I am intrigued. What laws are you suggesting she might have broken?
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In my state, we call aiding and abetting "complicity" which requires an intent to further a crime and that person is considered just as guilty as the one who performed the act itself. We have a lesser mental state of facilitation which does not require an intent to commit the act. The person can be completely indifferent to whether the actor commits a crime or not so long as the facilitator knew of the circumstances; e.g., that the son was going onto an airplane. |
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October 25, 2018, 04:44 AM | #22 |
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Why blame the school system?
That is doing just the thing you are blaming millennials of doing for petes sakes The schools have to deal with the lack of parenting nowadays |
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October 25, 2018, 11:07 AM | #24 |
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You are all not seeing whats going on! His mother wants his punk ass out of the house so she set him up, like any loving mother thats had enough would do...
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