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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He's taken up shooting as a hobby in the past few months and recently decided to purchase a gun. He came home with it without discussion. We have elementary age kids, and I just don't want it in the house. He doesn't care, says it's for his hobby and he'll keep it locked up. Am I unreasonable? Is he?[/quote]
Not discussing it with you is a major red flag. What was he hiding. He may be planning to eliminate you. 
You should be concerned about your safety. Keep your eyes open. [/quote]

Oh for the love...

It's not like he snuck it in. He goes shooting. She knows this. It's kinda hard to have shooting as a hobby without a gun. This is a reasonable, hobby-linked purchase that he disclosed.

You sound unhinged.[/quote]

You don't understand why someone wants to discuss a significant and dangerous purchase BEFORE he brings it home?[/quote]

I know all you gunphobic types are gonna find this hard to believe, but guns are inanimate objects. They don't get up and walk around, shooting people. The gun, in and of itself, isn't dangerous. How it's treated, how it's stored, how the kids are trained to address it... these things create (or negate) the potential harm.

[b]The gun is inert until acted upon. [/b][/quote]
Yup, like by toddlers shooting other toddlers or themselves. [/quote]

Or teenagers.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/22/dc-teen-killed-social-media-accidental-shooting/[/quote]

This is such a sad story - and there were adults in the home while she was playing with a loaded firearm on social media, how nice. I hope they are charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

I shared a very personal anecdote early in this thread about the worst thing I ever did in my life - pointing a shotgun at some other kids who were bullying me mercilessly for months. A shotgun I retrieved from my father's locked gun cabinet.

Nobody made a single comment on that post, that I can find.

It appears you are all wallowing in the ignorance or delusion that affects so many parents in this country - the delusion that your precious snowflake could never, ever do anything remotely of the kind. Never mind that we have kids from all socioeconomic backgrounds taking guns to school and killing their peers and often it is because they are acting out after being bullied or ostracized in the social cesspool of our schools.

My family was solidly middle class and WASP, inclusive of weekly church attendance. My parents were not great parents, but this kind of thing happens in families where the parents ARE good parents by any reasonable measure.

Y'all are fools for not considering the very obvious reality that guns and children are not a healthy mix - that minor children should never, EVER, have access to firearms and ammunition without a responsible adult actively supervising. Period.

You think it can't happen to you, but it absolutely can.[/quote]

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