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Purplehood wrote: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.

austinrealtor wrote: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.

Conversation in my brain wrote:"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."

Is there a gun in your home?

bryang wrote:

Is there a gun in your home?

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

-geo

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

Purplehood wrote: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.

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

apostate wrote:

Gyrogearhead wrote: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."

Gyrogearhead wrote:"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.

shootthesheet wrote: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.