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velocicrafter:

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holzmantweed:

Some people have questioned my using the term “child abuse” to describe Mr. I-shot-the-laptop.  I am using the term accurately.

This is the Duluth Model Child Abuse Wheel.  The Duluth Model is pretty much the standard model for describing how various forms of domestic violence works, in this instance child abuse.  I direct the attention of skeptics to the segment of the wheel that reads:

Intimidation - Instilling fear through looks, actions, gestures, property destruction (emphasis added)

As any gun safety instructor will tell you, the purpose of a gun is killing. Not disciplining your child, not showing how authoritative a parent you are, killing. Bringing a gun into your dialog with your child’s behavior is child abuse.  Actually shooting the gun even more so.  Shooting it with the specific intent of causing them property destruction triply so.

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I haven’t posted about the guy who shot his kid’s laptop, but you’ve probably seen it by now. Here’s one explanation of why a lot of people aren’t okay with it.

haven’t heard about it before today

but damn.