‘My Parents Open Carry’ a fictional account written from a young teen’s perspective on her gun totin’ parents. Come join 13-year-old Brenna Strong along with her mom, Bea, and her dad, Richard, as they spend a typical Saturday running errands and having fun together. What’s not so typical is that Brenna’s parents lawfully open carry handguns for self-defense.
Based on the picture, do you think this fictional family lives in an area that puts them at risk for their lives and have to defend them-selves when they shop for groceries?
The authors wrote this book because they “looked for pro-gun children’s books and couldn’t find any” Question: Did it occur to them to that there might be a pretty good reason there weren’t any?
“Our goal was to provide a wholesome family book” say the authors and say it “reflects the views of the majority of Americans” when in fact it is only “shared by a very small, stupid, paranoid group of idiots” according to one Amazon reviewer.
The authors, Brian Jeffs and Nathan Nephew on independent news website Raw Story,told Armed American Radio, the official radio program of The United States Concealed Carry Association that “most kids aren’t scared of a gun … that’s another good point this book tries to make.”
Is that the kind of thinking that moves a youngster to pick up and play with one if it’s left out or unsecured in the home?
With over 10,000 kids being shot each year in the United States, shouldn’t we not show guns as the panacea for our paranoia problems?
With a picture on the cover of a blue-eyed family with guns clipped to their belts, the book sees itself as the solution for all those parents who “carry a gun and sometimes struggle with how to best explain the reasons” to their children.
“They can’t openly tell their children that they fear for their lives whenever they leave the house so they teach kids guns are good, but in its1939 2nd Amendment decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal government and the States could limit any weapon types not having a “reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia”.
They didn’t want to have to explain that to the kids. It would make them look like the kind of ‘open carry’ gun nuts we read about who saunter into a Chipotle Grill and scare the shit out of the rest of the patrons.
My Parents Open Carry, by Brian Jeffs and Nathan Nephew, co-founders of the pro-gun Michigan Open Carry, their subsequent tome ‘Don’t come home after curfew when daddy’s been drinking’. It could be a best seller.
