National Ask Day

[Oldgringo]

It's been many many moons since we had small children in the house, thank goodness, but I would have been offended by such a question back then.

I reckon that was then and this is now. The grandchildren don't how to play with anything that is not somehow connected to/with electronics. Heaven forbid, they play cowboys and indians or war, etc. Is that a good thing?

[TheArmedFarmer]

EDIT: BTW, my son has been instructed that he never discusses the issue of Firearms in the house with anyone outside the family. Period. OPSEC is your friend.

Loose lips sink ships. Our children correctly and intuitively know that our business is none of their business. We wouldn't be associating with the kind of person who would be terrified by the sight of a handgun, so this question has never come up. The people I know would find it bad form and offensive to ask if there's a gun in the house (of course there is!)

[timdsmith72]

Well, I guess I need to be the contradictory voice here. I have two very young children. Learning from this board and elsewhere how some people store their guns laying about on tables ready for action etc (your right, not questioning that) I'd have to say that if my young child is going to be running around your house semi-supervised or unsupervised, I'd want to know if you have guns and if so are they locked up. Since my child will be in your home, I absolutely feel this is my right to ask this and know the answer.

As long as the answer is some version of "there is no way a child can access any weapon on my property" then I'm cool with it.

My wife and I had some people over for a cookout a couple of weekends ago. I asked my wife that morning if anyone was bringing any kids. She said yes, so I took the Sig out of the night stand, took the round out of the chamber and put the pistol on the top shelf of my closet. I put the magazine in a closet in another room. I also unloaded the Mossberg 835, stowed it away and hid the shells in another room. The rest I don't keep loaded and so I just hid the ammo. I don't have a gun safe so this is the best I can do. After going through all that, if a parent still has a problem with there being guns in the house, I reckon they can either stay at home or at least leave their kids with somebody else.

[nitrogen]

"do you have a gun at your house?"
"NO!"
"Then how do you keep yourself protected?? I cannot in good conscience let my child play over at your house."

That's how I'd LOVE these conversations to go...

[bryang]

Is there a gun in your home?

It all depends on what is...is...

-geo

[Purplehood]

Is there a gun in your home?

It all depends on what is...is...

-geo

I love Bill Clinton, just for that statement alone.

[bdickens]

How about National Get Some Business of your Own so You Can Go Mind It Day?

[Oldgringo]

...I reckon they can either stay at home or at least leave their kids with somebody else.

...and the winner is... timdsmith72

[Gyrogearhead]

Or Alcohol.

Or prescription drugs or syringes.

EDIT: BTW, my son has been instructed that he never discusses the issue of Firearms in the house with anyone outside the family. Period. OPSEC is your friend.

Ok, I give up! What is OPSEC? (I need all the friends I can get.)

[apostate]

Ok, I give up! What is OPSEC? (I need all the friends I can get.)

It's the high speed, low drag way of saying, "loose lips sink ships."

[Purplehood]

Ok, I give up! What is OPSEC? (I need all the friends I can get.)

It's the high speed, low drag way of saying, "loose lips sink ships."

What Apostate said, or, "Operational Security".

[Gyrogearhead]

"High speed, low drag" I love it! Thanks Guys. You've saved me another sleepless night.

Sometimes these little things can stick in the back of my mind for days and like an advertising jingle you can't forget cause a boat load of irritation.

[Purplehood]

"High speed, low drag" I love it! Thanks Guys. You've saved me another sleepless night.

Sometimes these little things can stick in the back of my mind for days and like an advertising jingle you can't forget cause a boat load of irritation.

I wish I had said that...I always get confused. Low Speed, High Drag...whatever.

[A-R]

I hope everyone that reads this board keeps their firearms inaccessible to kids. On your person or in a safe is the only way to properly control guns around kids. Remember, most of us have neighbor kids so lock your doors. We are all blamed every time a kid is injured with a gun so I will pull no punches on this. If you don't like the question then tell the parent it would be best not to have kids in your house if you don't want to go to the effort of securing them. Please.

I have a problem with any campaign that would focus on guns and ignore the items that cause injury in mass. This is an anti-gun campaign and not an issue of safety. If it was they would have published a list of questions to ask to include about swimming pools, chemicals, power tools, locked cars, poisons, stairs, car safety, bicycle safety and on and on. Then they could list guns at the bottom because very few actual "kids" are hurt or killed in firearm accidents. I don't consider any person 18 or alder a kid. Along the same lines, if the person is committing a crime they are not a kid either. Take out the gang members and other criminals and the numbers are near a non-issue. The rest are usually children of people that have guns but only hunt or are criminal owners themselves or the kid found the gun on the ground that was tossed by a criminal. It is the rest that bothers me. Those, like family members of mine, who expect a child to not touch a gun that is left out when they know kids don't always follow all instruction.

Never trust a kid to do the right thing where their life is concerned. I teach my kids to run if they see a kid with a gun. No question or conversation. Just run away and find an adult. My oldest knows not to touch even a BB gun or airsoft gun without me being there. I still lock even the BB guns in the safe. Why, not because he will get it but because he might be tempted if I don't. It is every parent’s responsibility to teach their kids about guns and chemicals and cars and safety in general. It is also every gun owners and home owner’s responsibility to make sure kids can't get to anything they may be tempted with.

So, get mad at the reason for the anti-gun nuts pushing this. But, take it as a hint to lock anything up that can harm a kid. Please.

Stated better than my own post directly above it ...

[C-dub]

I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of weapons in this house.

My family and a few trustworthy friends know, but otherwise I don't want to spoil the surprise.