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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
The only "knucklehead kid(s)" in my home when I was growing up were myself and my siblings. In my home when my children were growing up, those "knucklehead kid(s)" were my own. Zero chance of some random "knucklehead kid" wandering in and finding my relatively "unsecured" gun.
I guess that's my point - "child control" is far more effective than "gun control", insofar as the safe storage of a defensive firearm in the home. My parents' results, my results, my siblings' results, all pretty much speak for themselves - a 100% success rate of zero "knucklehead kids" accessing firearms they were not supposed to access.
Isn't "knucklehead kid" kinda redundant anyway?  |
yea..my dad hid his guns. one was a 38 special. a snubby. i remember it vividly and how it looks aimed at my 6 year old head. i remember my sister finding his handgun and aiming it at my head and squeezing the trigger. if that thing was loaded, that would have been it for me. my dad had it in a metal box with a key lock. my sister still got into it.
i dont ever talk about it. never did to my parents. it still chills my spine now...45 years later. i should see if my sister remembers it. oh,..you know what else was in that box? my dad's police mace-spray. i took a full face shot of that stuff later. dropped me screaming to my knees.
i wish i was born into another family sometimes.
now? my stuff is locked up..fort knox locked up. a neighbor kid, a visiting kid..no thanks.