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Anonymous wrote:Lol that's not an arsenal. I once met a couple with something like 500 guns in Texas of course. We have 3 guns, our children and neighbors aren't aware. Our one child that is old enough has taken several courses on gun safety and has shot a Beebe gun.

Do you lie when another parent asks you if you have guns in the house?

My kids aren’t allowed to visit a house with guns. Period. I might make an exception for a law enforcement officer with firearms required for work only in two separate safes for gun and ammo.


In general if you care so little about others that you keep guns in your house for some personal insecure fantasy of combat, your kids aren’t worthy of playing with my kids. We like strong parents who care about how guns have harmed America.

When do these conversations happen with the neighbors?

I think that you would be stunned at how many of your 'vetted' neighbors have weapons.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No, a child can’t accidentally kill someone with a knife. It takes a physical action of stabbing someone. That’s not accidental. They might pick it up and drop it and cut someone. Even if they threw it, it might injure someone, but not very unlikely to kill. But that is very different than accidentally squeezing the trigger on a gun that they think is a toy or is unloaded and killing a family member or friend.
Most people that shoot recreationally also hunt. The primary purpose of the weapon is again, to kill.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol that's not an arsenal. I once met a couple with something like 500 guns in Texas of course. We have 3 guns, our children and neighbors aren't aware. Our one child that is old enough has taken several courses on gun safety and has shot a Beebe gun.

Do you lie when another parent asks you if you have guns in the house?

My kids aren’t allowed to visit a house with guns. Period. I might make an exception for a law enforcement officer with firearms required for work only in two separate safes for gun and ammo.


In general if you care so little about others that you keep guns in your house for some personal insecure fantasy of combat, your kids aren’t worthy of playing with my kids. We like strong parents who care about how guns have harmed America.

You're the victim

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I will also say that DH and I have talked about whether I'd ever use a gun if I was alone with the kids. I could see brandishing it if it was a home invasion or something, but I'd want it unloaded, because I'm not trained, and God forbid a criminal got it away from me. So, it's unloaded, and I have access to the biometric safe, although I've never used it.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't worry about the gun self-locomoting. I worry about a kid picking up the gun and locomoting it, and there being an accident. We're the house everyone plays in on our block, or we were per covid. All it would take is one mistake. It would be easy, if my DH wasn't cautious, for him to decide that on that day when he come home for a shower and a quick meal between work and court, that he could just leave it on the bed. I trust him, so I don't lose sleep over it,but I do worry. I also worry about a criminal coming in to steal the gun.

And we have all those other things, and took steps or take steps to keep them all away from kids too. We actually have a ton of medicine in our house due to sick family members, and they are locked up too.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are the guns unloaded if they're in biometric safes? Two responses have indicated that the guns are unloaded in the biometric safes.

Different poster but I use my gun to kill vermin. I don’t need it loaded. I do not have it for home defense.

Exactly in our house the purpose of the gun is to go to work with my husband. It doesn't need to be loaded inside my house for that purpose.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are the guns unloaded if they're in biometric safes? Two responses have indicated that the guns are unloaded in the biometric safes.

Different poster but I use my gun to kill vermin. I don’t need it loaded. I do not have it for home defense.

Also DP and same. Also for gun ranges and the like. But only fools think they need a loaded gun for an intruder. Often fools who end up shooting a friend or family member.

DP. Same. And Agree.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are the guns unloaded if they're in biometric safes? Two responses have indicated that the guns are unloaded in the biometric safes.

Different poster but I use my gun to kill vermin. I don’t need it loaded. I do not have it for home defense.

Also DP and same. Also for gun ranges and the like. But only fools think they need a loaded gun for an intruder. Often fools who end up shooting a friend or family member.

Anonymous wrote:Why are the guns unloaded if they're in biometric safes? Two responses have indicated that the guns are unloaded in the biometric safes.

Different poster but I use my gun to kill vermin. I don’t need it loaded. I do not have it for home defense.

Why are the guns unloaded if they're in biometric safes? Two responses have indicated that the guns are unloaded in the biometric safes.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol that's not an arsenal. I once met a couple with something like 500 guns in Texas of course. We have 3 guns, our children and neighbors aren't aware. Our one child that is old enough has taken several courses on gun safety and has shot a Beebe gun.

Do you lie when another parent asks you if you have guns in the house?

My kids aren’t allowed to visit a house with guns. Period. I might make an exception for a law enforcement officer with firearms required for work only in two separate safes for gun and ammo.


In general if you care so little about others that you keep guns in your house for some personal insecure fantasy of combat, your kids aren’t worthy of playing with my kids. We like strong parents who care about how guns have harmed America.

NP
A lot of people own guns. Many would surprise you. Most keep them locked up and out of sight so neighbors/acquaintances/friends would have no idea.
We have guns. We don’t disclose to our children’s friends that come over. There’s no way for them to access them.

Annapolis, MD
$700k
One handgun one semi automatic rifle
Gun safe
Inherited both
Think people who bought guns because of riots are drooling morons
Toddler and early elementary kids

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.