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Originally Posted by ccrn
Firearms that arent being carried etc in my honest opinion should be dissassembled and locked.
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Respectfully disagree.
A 14 year old kid inherits the duty of vacuuming as part of his chores. "Dad, I need to vacuum under the bed" = Dad, you need to move the shotgun.
On a corner lot, a stranger comes to the home's back sliding door, rather than either of the two available doors facing the streets. Mom answers the door, and the stranger asks if the house down the street is for sale. (Century 21 sign plainly posted, with agent's phone number.) A little chit-chat follows about the neighborhood, until the stranger abruptly leaves.
PD receives a call 5 minutes later that stranger went to next house, unoccupied, somehow entered the house and was "handing stuff" to another guy carrying stuff to a van.
The caller was the 14 year old. The would-be burglar's abrupt departure appears to have been caused by the transport of a 12 gauge from Dad's bedroom to the vicinity of the sliding doors "pointed mostly at the floor" under the "only if you have to" clause concerning touching a gun in the house.
I know that first hand. I'm the Dad.