Father puts .45 rounds into teenage girl's laptop

[Char. Limit]

Morally yes, but physically it's razor thin. It's most accurate to call the gun a threat.

If I have a dispute with you, and we meet to discuse it, would you not feel threatened if I had a gun with me and shot some inanimate object each time you said something I didn't like?

That situation is totally irrelevant to the situation in the thread and you know it.

 

[netgypsy]

Hardly trolling. I have better things to do with my time. Trolling is stupid.

We are a family loaded with educators and social workers (and even one very famous politician). I taught in inner city schools and super rich private schools as well as college, graduate level and even middle school as have quite a number of my family members. You don't last in this kind of situation if you don't know how to get people to do things they don't want to do. (Sit in a classroom studying physics on a beautiful day in April)

And if you don't like the word "bribe", the technical term is positive reinforcement and the technique is operant conditioning but on a physics forum with all ages, bribe gets the point across.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning

Negative reinforcement has to be done very carefully with older teens and adults. You make somebody angry and they'll do really stupid things.

It never hurts to be nice to people. And it might help.

 

[MarcoD]

Tss. If people would try to bribe me into anything I personally would show them the door, for their way out. And I am pretty certain lots of people feel that way.

 

[Pythagorean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwWbpPH_000

 

[rootX]

Dad seems to have more issues than the daughter He neither seem to understand the concept of facebook while being in IT and mature nor how to react.

 

[waukwiz]

There are times and places for using guns. This was not one of them. Why not just cut her laptop off from the internet, put it in the closet, make her post an apology. The list of alternative actions is long, there is no place in the home for firing weapons. He should be arrested for endangerment.

Endangerment of whom, exactly? I do believe it was unnecessary and inappropriate to use a gun in this instance, but who was he endangering? The gun remained pointed in a safe direction the whole time, and I doubt a bullet could have ricocheted off of a laptop. Especially a subsonic round, like that of a .45 Colt that he was using.