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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another person who never asks and has never been asked. 
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At some level, it sort of seems like a vanity exercise/virtue signaling. At[/b] least in most of DCUM territory, the answer is always go to be either (1) no we don’t have guns, in which case you can band together and tsk tsk gun owners, or (2) yes we have guns but we’re the responsible type of gun owners and we’re in favor of an assault weapons ban and red flag laws and we never give a dime to the NRA and each gun is locked up, unloaded in its own basement vault and every round of ammunition is separately locked up, individually, in its own biometric safe 300 miles away at our beach house. No one is going to be like “yeah we’ve got a half dozen loaded weapons just strewn about the house.”

So while I think it’s a little silly, I also wouldn’t be offended if someone did ask. (DH has a bunch of guns, all in safes but mostly stored loaded. If you keep a gun for personal protection I’m not sure why you would store it unloaded.) [/quote]

I totally agree that it's virtue signaling - and I don't think I've ever been asked.  I've been convinced at times that I needed to ask - and occasionally as I said before, I have occasionally volunteered before that we don't have guns.  I am against guns but I just don't even care anymore - there are way bigger risks that we are not asking about IMO so I don't feel a need to single this one out.  I try to teach my kids as a general matter how to be safe, such as teaching them to swim and always wear a seatbelt.[/quote]

Nope, you just don't want to risk not being invited to the mom's brunch or the PTA social.  Glad that's more important to you than the #1 leading cause of death for kids in the US[/quote]

Actually I didn't know that, so I do thank you for bringing that to my attention.  I do appreciate facts.  And, I'm planning the mom's brunch and the PTA social by the way, so no concerns there.  And, I still don't like virtue signaling.

And even if it's #1 - it still doesn't tease out suicide, homicide, unintentional gun deaths.  Asking about guns in the house would probably only prevent unintentional - and that's probably still lower than drowning and car accidents statically.  [/quote]

But also - go ahead and ask - I don't care.  I don't have guns.  Just saying no one has asked me and I don't think it's worth it to ask other anymore.  And that I think other people are virtue signaling who do, but it doesn't really matter what I think.[/quote]

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