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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is 100 percent her business.  Improperly stored firearms + 13 preteen boys overnight = potential for disaster.

Why not just tell her that you do own guns and that they are stored unloaded in a locked safe, separate from ammunition, or in a biometric safe?[/quote]

OP here. DH basically feels like she is calling him an idiot by supposing he'd have loaded guns lying around. Some of them are worth a large some of money and he doesn't want it known that the 'Jones family' has several thousand dollars worth of guns in our house. He noted that she didn't ask about illegal or prescription drugs, dangerous dogs, swimming pool, alcohol or any other factor also known to kill kids. It feels 'virtue signally' at his expense. [b]It's hard to not consider that viewpoint.[/b][/quote]

It's only hard if you have the IQ of a sweet potato.  It's pretty easy to dismiss that reflexively defensive, logically flawed rationale otherwise.  [/quote]

Wanting it unknown that you have a large amount of highly valuable and frequently stolen items in your home is logically flawed? You wouldn't know logic if it bit you in the ass.[/quote]

Agree.  We don’t have guns, but if we did, I absolutely wouldn’t be talking about it with other parents or anyone, let alone be giving them specific details.  That is very stupid to do. If this is a concern of yours when you send kids to someone’s house, perhaps a better way to ask would be, “Do you have firearms in your house that are not locked and secured away from children.”  This allows the host to reply without giving details on if they actually own firearms and any specifics. [/quote]

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