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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to Gallup, 43 percent of US households have a gun.  You should always assume there is a gun in your neighbor's house, because the odds are pretty good. Whether they are stored safely, with ammo locked and separate from the weapon, is a different story.  Teach your kids about gun safety, about not touching, leaving the room, telling an adult.  [/quote]

ITA. We have a gun and I doubt anyone would guess.  It is secure. I would be happy to describe how, if asked by a fellow parent or neighbor. I have never been.

We also have a pool and it is FAR more dangerous to potential young visitors than our locked up gun. Our youngest child just turned 9.

Ask the neighbors if you want to- I doubt they will mind.

I do wonder- do you trust your child? It is not fail proof but you seem to leave him/her out of the equation. Have that conversation.

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I didn't leave him out of the equation. I already said he could not be trusted. He would pick up a gun and handle it if he saw it, no matter what kind of conversation I had about gun safety before hand. That's the kind of kid he is. And since I do not trust my child to be around a gun, I can't leave it up to my neighbors to make sure the gun is safely put away. We had guns when I was growing up. The rule was, no ammo in the house. And yet ammo sometimes appeared. That's life with humans and guns....

Anyway, I told my DC why he was not going over there. Also told him to keep it to himself, as I don't know who else knows about the guns or if our neighbor would want that info out there.

Thanks for all the suggestions.[/quote]

Just wanted to add that once one of my kids had a gun safety presentation in elementary school and came home with some worksheets about it. All of my kids agreed that it would be okay to handle the gun before they left the room to tell an adult. Crazy.[/quote]

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