[Rick Lee]

If I ever have kids, I will keep my night table gun unchambered then. I think I was probably 9-10 yrs. old before I was strong enough to rack the slide back on my dad's night table Commander, though I never even thought about doing it without his permission. I have an accessible, ready-to-go handgun in two far corners of the house, one my home office, where I spend most of my day and the other the bedroom where I spend most of my night. There have been a lot of home invasions in Phoenix recently. Police don't do anything about those except take the report after it's all done. I'm not paranoid, but I'll never bet my life on a police response time when I can have a handgun within reach most of the time. There are far more things to worry about than guns. Swimming pools and cars with drivers on cell phones are exponentially more dangerous and more common.