| My gun is my business. How is your auto safety? Car inspected lately? Brakes OK? That IS my business if my kid is going in a car with you. You the hosting parent should be offering me this info without me having to ask. |
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Gaslighting by the progressives: Why does this trigger you? Liberals are really good at it.
I am a Dem and I have alwys owned a gun. None of your business. |
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I’ve worked with children for 15 years. When they have an adult whom they trust, they say some pretty surprising things. One child I taught told me that he guessed his father’s gun safe combination, unlocked it, and chambered a round before replacing the gun. This is absolutely a health and safety situation.
I might be ok with my child visiting a gun-owning household, but I’d have to know the other child and have a sense for how close the parental supervision is. |
It is our business if my kid is over your house Thank goodness that isn't happening at all but, sad you think that it isn't |
If you don't ask outright, it's very possible your child already has visited such a household. |
| So many things more dangerous than guns. Agree on cars and driver's safety record. |
No. Not “so many things”. Just cars. Firearm death is second only to motor vehicle accidents. Except if you want to talk about hours in a car vs hours playing with a gun, if still rather have my kid buckled in a car. |
Unintentional injury deaths in children - Motor vehicle is first, yes. Suffocation, drowning, poisoning, burn/fire and pedestrian related injury all outrank firearms. Firearms only enter second place for child death if you include homicides - but that's well outside the realm of what this post is about, safe storage at a playmate's house. |
+1. MVA top cause death in kids. 2nd is gun injuries. If you actually look at the percentage of people driving and in a car vs the percentage of people who own guns, higher risk of death is by far guns. |
Only 50% of the firearm deaths is homicides. The rest is suicide and injuries. It’s staggering the huge increase risk in successful suicides in kids whose family own guns in the house. |
Firearms is #2 after MVA. Slick move trying to twist facts by grouping different causes together. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1804754 |
Well buddy, as can be seen in previous posts, no. Guns are #2 |
Obvious you don’t take gun safety seriously in children. I hope you are not a pediatrician. Your reasoning is so flawed. Cars are essential. Guns in the homes are not. |
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Yes and no.
Both my husband and I are retired military. It’s safe to assume we have guns. |
Please read my post again, because that's exactly what I wrote. You are lumping in homicides and suicides in the firearms category, when this thread is about children accessing firearms at a playdate. Apples and oranges. |