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[quote=Anonymous]DS is 10.5 years old. He has playdates with kids of families we know pretty well so I have a sense of what the family rules/values are. If he makes a new friend and wants to have a playdate, I ask some basic question about pets in the house, guns or other weapons, etc. I don't go through a list of everything because that is just stupid. In life there are a lot of risks and you can't mitigate against all of them. A house is bound to have kitchen knives, power tools, prescription drugs, and many other things. But the difference here is that many young boys are interested in guns and weapons. My son included even though we do not own any kind of gun or weapon. We have talked a lot about guns and how they are very dangerous and he knows that. Plus he is a level headed kid. But he is still a kid and he absolutely loves nerf guns and maybe he could be convinced to look at a real gun "just this once" or touch it by another kid. Because they are kids and they don't always make the best decisions in the moment. So that is why I ask because I try to at least mitigate the risks as much as is in my control and what I would consider to be a real safety issue. Could a kid fall off a trampoline? Sure. But that isn't the same as being accidentally shot. That there are people who would blatantly lie to a parent who asks that is beyond words but of course there are awful people in the world and the only way to mitigate that is to try to use good judgment and intuition about things.[/quote]

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