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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What? I said that all gun owners assume that nothing bad would ever happen in their house with their gun. Are you saying that's not the case, and that there are some gun owners who assume that something bad WILL happen in their house with their gun?

Even if a gun is usually locked in a safe, it is taken out to use and maintain it, at which time it's vulnerable to being left outside the safe in an emergency/urgent situation (things that are uncommon but do happen to people sometimes no matter how much they think they won't, such as a kid screaming his head off from the yard because he's fallen and badly broken his arm, a phone call saying that someone has been in an accident and is in the ICU and you need to come right this minute if you want to talk to them in this life again, a sharp pain in the abdomen from food poisoning). Also many kids find the keys to the gun safe and never mention it to their parents. I've heard it from a child myself - "the gun is in the safe but I know where the key is! I found it one day when I was looking for ....".

People are idiots if they think that it's 100% safe just because it's usually stored in something called a 'safe'. And they're total jerks if they don't even bother using a safe.[/quote]

You know nothing about guns, gun safes, or gun owners. You are an idiot.

When you take a gun out to clean it, you leave the ammunition locked in the safe. Accident risk, zero, even if some distraction occurs.

Gun safes do not have keys, they have combinations. I call bullshit on your "I know where the key to my dad's gun safe is" story.
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Accidents happen.  A childhood friend was married to a retired Marine.  He shot himself in the leg while cleaning a gun.  He was tired, thought he had cleared it, didn't realize that there was a round in the chamber.

I'm in law enforcement and supportive of gun ownership, but it's absurd to assert that there's "zero" risk when cleaning a gun.  There's a reason that rules number one and two of safe gun handling are: treat every gun like it's loaded; and don't point it at anything you're not prepared to kill.[/quote]

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