Comment Re:Great one more fail (Score 1) 600
Many gun affectionados I know think your idea of storing guns in a safe is the start of the guvernment taking them away. Same for a trigger lock. All of those things slow them down if some thug comes into their house.
My father was a police officer. My father had guns unattended around the house relatively frequently. As a child, I picked them up. I looked at them. There was zero chance anyone was ever going to get hurt.
Why?
I was taught what guns could could do. I had actually fired guns. I fired my first gun (a rifle) when I was I was 3 years old.
I never had guns in my house when I became an adult. It was not because I was afraid of them, it was because I had children and knew I could not train them like I had been trained. I did take them to the range but only my daughter shot a gun there. My son wanted nothing to do with it.
Relying on a gun safe to keep your children out of trouble is insanity. If you love guns so much and need to have them around, train your children. That way, if you accidentally forget to lock a gun up one day, you do not come home to a catastrophe. Children may be irresponsible but if they know they are handling something that is dangerous, they will NOT play with it. It can not just be words either. They have to SEE that it is dangerous.