万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-04-12&13, 两岁幼童和自动步枪

This is an image pawnshop manager Dan Reese never thought he would see, a two-year-old wearing diapers and holding an AK-47, given to him by his father and all of it caught on tape.

The husband asks to see an AK-47 and as soon as the girl hands it to him, he calls his small child over and tells him, daddy's buying you this AK, this chopper, he called it. Your daddy is going to buy you a chopper so you can become a solider.

Reese's on the right side of the screen assisting another customer, this while the father proceeds to show the child how to hold, load, and operate the weapon.

Well, he is telling him, this is how you hold your chopper, you can hold it like this. And anybody in front of you, you can mow¹ him down. You can kill everybody out in front of you. And you're a solider, you are gonna be a solider, ‘cause dad is gonna buy you this chopper. It's what he keeps repeating over and over.

Now father and son are marching in the store, showcasing the weapon, then the father goes one-step further.

He sets the child down. He unslings the weapon and slings² it over the child's back.

With an assault rifle now slung³ over the infant's shoulder, that's where Dan Reese says, he drew the line.

This is when I become angry and I tell the man, give me the weapon and I take it away from him. I tell the clerk to shut the case that these people can't buy any firearms from us. And this man becomes irate⁴ and wants to fight with me.

1 mow   

v.割（草、麦等），扫射，皱眉；n.草堆，谷物堆

参考例句：

• He hired a man to mow the lawn.他雇人割草。
• We shall have to mow down the tall grass in the big field.我们得把大田里的高草割掉。

2 slings   

抛( sling的第三人称单数 )； 吊挂； 遣送； 押往

参考例句：

• "Don't you fear the threat of slings, Perched on top of Branches so high?" 矫矫珍木巅，得无金丸惧？ 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
• Used for a variety of things including slings and emergency tie-offs. 用于绳套，设置保护点，或者紧急情况下打结。

3 slung   

抛( sling的过去式和过去分词 )； 吊挂； 遣送； 押往

参考例句：

• He slung the bag over his shoulder. 他把包一甩，挎在肩上。
• He stood up and slung his gun over his shoulder. 他站起来把枪往肩上一背。

4 irate   

adj.发怒的，生气

参考例句：

• The irate animal made for us,coming at a full jump.那头发怒的动物以最快的速度向我们冲过来。
• We have received some irate phone calls from customers.我们接到顾客打来的一些愤怒的电话