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Hidden Camera Experiment: Young Kids Drawn to Guns | Hidden America: Young Guns (World News)
Parents are shocked to see how their kids react to finding a gun in an unattended classroom.
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Anthony Galella knows that guns kill and accidents happen. If he ever came across a gun, he said, he would “call the cops and tell them.”
But when Galella, 15, stumbled across a gun at a YMCA in Yonkers, N.Y., last year — disabled and placed there, unbeknownst to him, by ABCNEWS as part of a hidden-camera experiment — he found that sounding the alarm and calling for an adult did not come so easy.
“Something in my head was just telling me to touch it and play with it,” he explained.
Galella picked up the gun, then put it back — not once or twice, but nine times. Instead of calling someone, he ended up stashing the weapon out of sight, to help him resist picking it up again.
An Irresistible Urge
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Kids seem to be growing up faster than ever, and these stories highlight the youngest age group acting like adults “too young, too soon” (TYTS). Kids are exposed to many more influences and bad behaviors through television, film, and access to the internet. Are celebrities bad role models for young impressionable children? Between stories of teenage gunmen who are not old enough to carry their weapons, toddlers in tiaras, crazy dance moms, and kids getting plastic surgery as birthday presents, it’s easy to see that maybe growing up too fast can hurt rather than help kids.
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@Xction69
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Wow amazing, i never hear something like this in my country……
@thesirenboys
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
let me get this straight so there is one child or teenager every hour that gets injured by a gun in the US and 7,000 children and teenagers that get injured by a gun per year but the thing is there is 8,765 hours in a year.
@Bibbes95
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
So the problems are the guns.. why do people need these i don't get it.
@4doorsmorewhores298
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Even more of a reason to teach gun safety and grow them up with gun safety
@ps4gamingguy
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Guns don't kill people people have to pull that trigger
@HollowHill17
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
2:48 gun is the right size for that kid…
@franklinmoorehartjr
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
You have to teach the child that guns can hurt them so they do not pick it up and play with it I have been training since I was 8 years old learning how to shoot and what not we were talked if we see a gun you don't play with it believe me my dad used to leave his all over the house and we never thought about picking it up but no one teaches this anymore to their children this world has big become anti-gun thanks to all the politicians that want to be assholes and do not want to back up the Second Amendment they want to make us look bad in the media evey time something happens its Always blame the guns
@ricardoestrada4263
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
another reason we should teach firearm safety and de-stigmatize guns
@eddenoy321
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
When I was a pup I was told never to touch my dad's flame thrower. I used it to kill rabbits in their dens. It stank.
@notmyrealname1698
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
This is like leaving chocolate in front of a puppy and acting surprised when they eat it. This is literally the dumbest anti-gun crap I’ve ever seen.
@bradm2243
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
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Would you still remember me?
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Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
Oh, oh, oh, oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird, you cannot change
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Though this feelin' I can't change
But please don't take it so badly
'Cause Lord knows, I'm to blame
But if I stay here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
Oh, oh, oh, oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird, you cannot change
Lord knows, I can't change
Lord help me, I can't change
Lord, I can't change
Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah
@PBRstreetgang88
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
2nd Amendment has already been infringed. So if the government doesn’t have to follow the laws? Why should I
@giovanniscalia3420
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Always lock your guns with kids ! Always
@abridgedreality9232
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Please for the love of god, do not store your guns loaded that is how people die, how kids die, because they find them, get curious, and end their lives, and if you need it for self defence, at least don't have a round chambered so negligent discharges don't happen (this is for storing them not having them on your person)
@denverbryan4559
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
They should do same test without gov't telling you what to do.
@limitedka4840
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
U gotta be mad stupid to teach your kid how to use a gun and even more stupid to have a I’m guessing Remington 870 or a benelli m4 under their pillow
@limitedka4840
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
David was speaking to his clone
@shotsfired1037
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
That’s because they had a warning, if you expose the children to a gun hidden in a lunch box than they are bound to touch it, just the Eddie eagle video is enough and then a month later hide one somewhere legitimate, such as a teachers desk and if they find it see what they do, and also you are telling me that putting an object most children find intriguing out in the open won’t peak their interest, I reckon y’all are just anti gun and wanna make it look like kids can’t be trusted.
@tonifonsworth619
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
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@bigmungus4864
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Bro that silver looked like a toy
@ListenToPeopleWhoKno
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
ABC News judging by the comments below you lost that argument.
@abelsesmas8737
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
I think kids and teenagers should wait until they are adults to have a gun and please parents keep your guns locked in a safe so your kids are teenagers can be safe
@1x1boop28
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Moral of the story: don't put guns in toy bins or children will think they are toys.
@osamasauce3821
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Kids get killed because of a parent not teaching them kids should learn on guns and some kids should learn how to fight
@fullfire0
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Sorry but one fucking video on gun safety is NOT enough to prevent this kind of stuff. Try teaching this stuff to them over the course of their entire lives and see how it changes
@godswatching2863
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
My son is not drawn to my gun. Ever since he's been four I have taught him gun safety I brought him to the gun range with me. He hears how loud it is and it terrifies him. I've told him stories of kids playing with guns and shooting their friend or parents on accident I've told him stories of people losing their foot or killing themselves shooting themselves in the stomach thinking the gun is unloaded but not knowing for sure. I have also explained to him that some guns you have to really pull the trigger hard for it to fire but then there are other guns that you barely have to touch it and it fires don't ever assume you know how much you can pull a trigger unless you have shot that gun before at the range. I've told him sometimes a bullet can be in the gun even though the clip isn't in there and a lot of times people assume that that means it's empty and then they accidentally shoot themselves. I've taught him never to put your finger on the trigger until you're ready to shoot. If a gun is loaded but your finger is never on that trigger it won't shoot. anyway I've taught in so many different things over the years this is not me bragging or trying to sound special it is me saying that a kid easily can find a gun if they want to and hiding it without educating maybe the worst idea. I know my son better than anyone else know your child. Since the beginning of America's conception. It is the lack of education that causes death.
@theshadybunch2139
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
They have real guns to children instead of airsoft what a bunch of idiots
@lastdon25
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
What they don’t tell you in this video is how many of those kids that were hurt by guns, are actually legal household gun owners. And yes that dose matter.
@barbschank7267
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Kids are naturally curious. I’m all for legal fire arms, please keep them locked up from your kids.
@cannondaleman1
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
My take. Whether you agree or not agree with me:
Watching an animated video that includes singing and dancing, in a classroom to tell kids to stay away from a gun and not touch and call an adult is NOT a real safety course. I realize that they are the children of parents who CLAIM to have "taught" their child about firearm safety but I would like to know what "taught" MEANS. Did they just TELL their kids to stay away from a firearm or have they actually TAKEN their child to a qualified instructor and actually HANDLED firearms? There is a BIG difference between TELLING their kids to not handle a firearm at home and TEACHING with hands-on training, at a gun range or other location intended for firearms activity. I bought my daughter her first student model rifle at the age of FIVE. I took her and TAUGHT her to use it at the age of five. Handling a real firearm was her REAL training. She KNEW, after that, what it meant to RESPECT what a firearm can do and what it meant to stay away from a firearm unless it was range time. She is now 28 and still owns that pink, student model, bolt action .22 single shot rifle, ALONG with 3 AR's, a shotgun and several handguns that she purchased as a grown up and knows how to use them. Carries, on her person, daily and now she and her husband shoot regularly and love to hunt. It is unfair to say that simply watching a cartoon video is enough to teach a child how to respect a firearm and the dangers.
@tomjohnson3251
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
DO PEOPLE pushing for a race war really want it?
@migueldelacruz5054
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Children are NATURALLY drawn to things unfamiliar to them, ie keys, cups, even trash. These people never had children that's why they're making a big deal out of them.
@txpatriot7038
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
I agree, any parent that hides a real gun in toy box within a school is asking for trouble. good reporting. The hilarious part is they said this took a year and it's 'groundbreaking news'.
@allens2784
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
those kids knew what was up lol they just played along jeez these libs are stoopit got slapped by kids lol
@lordj.8962
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
It’s the movies…….
@scottzipperer6146
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
My guns were in the safe until my kids were grown and fl law it's a felony to have a unlocked firearm parents are responsible for their actions
@anfett2699
January 13, 2024 at 8:29 am
Duh real guns? why they put real guns in the room instead of blank guns or airsoft or something like that tf