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Originally Posted by DanUCSB
Saca and TR are absolutely right. If I had to pick only one between giving the kids a good gun education/demystification, or a badass locking gizmo, I'll take the education any day.
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I grew up with long guns stored in a gun rack on the bedroom wall, unloaded, but with the ammo in boxes in a sliding drawer under the rack. Nothing was locked, and none of us kids killed anyone or went on any rampages... We grew up with pretty much constant access to firearms. Hunting was normally done as a hunt of opportunity. If it came out, we killed it, and ate it. If we killed it, we ate it. Other than hunting or target shooting and cleaning, we didn't screw with guns. We were taught what guns were for, and we had a sense of personal responsibility. Something a lot of kids these days are not taught. We didn't have many other kids over, but those that did come over were also children of hunters that taught their children the same.
Teach your children well, and like was said... take the mystique out of them by allowing the kids to shoot them, so if needed, they can defend themselves should they be home alone, and something happen.
GROG
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"...as far as rights go, I look at them this way. I won't tell you what kind of church to go to, you don't tell me what kind of firearm I can own."
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Finally, I believe that punishing lawful gun owners by creating new, more onerous laws, and restricting Constitutionally guaranteed rights, when we already don't enforce the tens of thousands of gun laws we have on the books, is like beating your dog because the neighbor's dog shit in your yard.
"The Reaper"
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