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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have guns, and because of my husbands job most people know we have them.m. I am huge hypocrite because my husband is one of the few people I feel safe with having a gun.  Most of our friends are anti-gun and agree that my husband is one of the few people they feel safe with owning a gun. He has had extensive training, is an expert marksman and nothing is more important to him than gun safety. You won’t see him wearing any ridiculous 3 percenters shirts or pretending be some kind of sheepdog either. [/quote]

I guess I should add none of our guns were recent purchases, and our kids have never shot a gun. If my kids wanted to when they was older and went through the gun safety classes, my husband would take them to the range, but as it stand they are still young and impulsive. They would never be able to touch a gun in our home since ours are stored properly in a safe, and in a room that the kids don’t even access to. However they have been taught what to do if they ever see a gun at someone’s house or a friends tries to show them one.  [/quote]

I'm also married to someone who carries a gun for work.  He comes home, it goes into a biometric safe, the ammo goes into a different safe.  Both safes are in a space that we'd notice if the kids went in, and are out of reach.  I don't love that there's a gun in the house, but I trust my DH.  [/quote]

Do you have kitchen knives?  Household cleaners?  Prescription or non prescription medicine?  Flammables?  Power tools?  Paint, thinner, car fluids?

Do you worry about those inanimate objects self-locomoting and forming evil intent to harm you or yours?  So what is it about “a gun in the house?”  Guns are inanimate objects with a utilitarian use, dangerous if misused.  Irrational fear of weapons calls for education. [/quote]
Don’t be a moron. A gun has one purpose – to injure or kill. I say this as a gun owner. A child can’t pick up a knife and accidentally kill their sibling or parent. But a child can accidentally access to a gun that is improperly stored and accidentally kill someone.
Flammable substances are an issue. That’s why parents should keep them in a place where children don’t have access. Otherwise a child can accidentally burn down a house and kill people.
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A child can’t accidentally kill someone with a knife?  Really?  Are all your knives butter knives?

As for safe, secure storage, absolutely. The comment was directed to a PP’s professed concern about “having a gun in the house,” in and of itself, not improper storage.

And as for guns having no utility other than killing, the recreational shooting industry and community (trap, skeet, sporting clays, formal and informal target shooting and competition, and even multiple Olympic events) would beg to differ. [/quote]

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