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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even in this thread, you can see some of the PPs are saying ridiculous irresponsible things like "you can't gunproof a child" WTF??  [/quote]

Experiments show that even children very well educated about gun safety will do stupid things with guns (e.g. pick up an unknown gun).

It's like people who think their children are dogsafe. No, your child is well educated about dogs, but your child is still a child and inclined to do stupid and impulsive things because she is a child. Our child was as dogsafe as a child can get, and we still didn't leave her alone with our well-trained and wonderful dog until she was 5 years old. Yes, it was a pain not to be able to leave her and the dog in the living room while I walked to the kitchen to get a drink. So be it. It is too easy for a small child to do something stupid and for a dog to react like a dog and suddenly you have a severely injured child and a dog you have to do something with that has a history of severely injuring a child.

It's the opposite of irresponsible to understand you can't gunproof a child or make a child dogsafe. It is the adult's responsibility to ensure that unsafe situations don't occur by securing guns away from children and making sure dogs and children don't interact unsupervised. Depending on the child to get it right 100% of the time is asking for heartbreak.[/quote]

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