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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t respond.  It’s none of her business.  I would absolutely not divulge information on if we have guns, how many, how/where they are stored. When you send a child to someone’s house you are trusting they are a responsible parent and that anything that could be extremely dangerous is stored, handled, secured appropriately.  [/quote]

If they respond like OP to what is a very reasonable question, I’d assume they are not responsible parents, and I wouldn’t trust them. Some people actually think that telling kids to stay away from their loaded, unsecured guns is effective and safe. Unless you tell me otherwise, I’m going to assume you’re that kind of irresponsible, and I’m not sending the most precious thing in my life to your house. [/quote]

I don’t think it’s a reasonable question.  Either you trust the parents and find them to have sound and safe judgment, or you don’t.  If someone did own guns that they keep loaded, unlocked, and accessible to children- they are absolutely not going to actually tell you that. [/quote]

I’m sorry. How do you trust people and their judgement without talking to them and asking questions about how they handle potentially deadly situations?

I’d love to be besties with all my son’s friends parents, but it’s just not possible. And even the ones I am friendly with, I don’t ask questions about they order their home unless it’s relevant to me, such as I’m sending my kid there for enough time to get up to no good. Maybe I was just raised to be polite and not talk about religion or politics at a baseball game. [/quote]

In Maryland, it’s law for firearms to be secured in locked storage, unloaded, and seperate from ammo.  Virginia has similar laws- but more vague in that they have to be inaccessible to children.  So no- no parent that is illegally storing firearms is going to casually tell you so.  Ask away but either you trust that they are doing the right thing or your don’t.  Don’t send your kids over someone’s house that you’d suspect is dumb and careless enough to keep a loaded firearm where kids can get it. [/quote]

Oh? But they are. I’ve had plenty of folks tell me about how they tell their kids not to touch daddy’s guns and they just know their kids are going to listen because they’ll get whooped otherwise. You know, instead of making it so the kids CAN’T touch daddy’s guns. [/quote]

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