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Is there a gun in your home?

It's a simple question that safety experts said can save a child's life.

Thousands of children across the country have died or been seriously hurt in accidental shootings.

Monday local leaders kicked-off San Antonio's National Ask Day Education Campaign to help prevent some of those accidents.

They are encouraging parents to ask if there is a gun in the homes where their child will be playing this summer.

"They don't think it will happen to them. Car crashes, unintentional shootings, those are tragedies that involve other peoples' children. Unfortunately, I am a witness that these things do happen to our children," said Dr. Ronald Stewart of University Hospital.

A study shows most parents who are gun owners do not mind being asked if there is a firearm in their home. National Ask Day is Saturday.

Can we have a National "None of your business" day?

pbwalker wrote:http://www.kens5.com/latestnews/stories ... bc940.html

Is there a gun in your home?

It's a simple question that safety experts said can save a child's life.

Thousands of children across the country have died or been seriously hurt in accidental shootings.

Monday local leaders kicked-off San Antonio's National Ask Day Education Campaign to help prevent some of those accidents.

They are encouraging parents to ask if there is a gun in the homes where their child will be playing this summer.

"They don't think it will happen to them. Car crashes, unintentional shootings, those are tragedies that involve other peoples' children. Unfortunately, I am a witness that these things do happen to our children," said Dr. Ronald Stewart of University Hospital.

A study shows most parents who are gun owners do not mind being asked if there is a firearm in their home. National Ask Day is Saturday.

Can we have a National "None of your business" day?

This has been going on for as long as I can remember...

But I do like your thinkin'!!!

Is there a gun in your home?

It's a simple question that safety experts said can save a child's life.

Amen! If there's a gun in the house you can feel safer knowing they can protect your child.

pbwalker wrote:http://www.kens5.com/latestnews/stories ... bc940.html

Is there a gun in your home?

It's a simple question that safety experts said can save a child's life.

Thousands of children across the country have died or been seriously hurt in accidental shootings.

Monday local leaders kicked-off San Antonio's National Ask Day Education Campaign to help prevent some of those accidents.

They are encouraging parents to ask if there is a gun in the homes where their child will be playing this summer.

"They don't think it will happen to them. Car crashes, unintentional shootings, those are tragedies that involve other peoples' children. Unfortunately, I am a witness that these things do happen to our children," said Dr. Ronald Stewart of University Hospital.

A study shows most parents who are gun owners do not mind being asked if there is a firearm in their home. National Ask Day is Saturday.

Can we have a National "None of your business" day?

Call it NATIONAL NUNYA DAY ....

boomerang wrote:

Is there a gun in your home?

It's a simple question that safety experts said can save a child's life.

Amen! If there's a gun in the house you can feel safer knowing they can protect your child.

I would honestly have to answer, "no, there is not A gun in this house"

Now if they asked if there were many guns in the house, I'd have to ask for a definition of many...

PBratton wrote: I would honestly have to answer, "no, there is not A gun in this house"

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.

I've even had to ask real estate clients if their guns are locked away because unsupervised people - often with kids in tow - will be touring your home. I also ask clients to hide jewelry and other valuable and easily stolen items while homes are on the market.

If the parent of a child who will be at my home asks "Do you have a gun in the home?" I'll simply say "Yes, locked in a safe" and leave it at that. They don't need to know any further details.

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.

shootthesheet wrote:On your person or in a safe is the only way to properly control guns around kids.

shootthesheet wrote:I hope everyone that reads this board keeps their firearms inaccessible to kids.
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I have a problem with any campaign that would focus on guns and ignore the items that cause injury in mass, [such as] swimming pools, chemicals, power tools, locked cars, poisons, stairs, car safety, bicycle safety and on and on.
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Those who expect a child to not touch a gun that is left out when they know kids don't always follow all instruction.
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Never trust a kid to do the right thing where their life is concerned.

Fascinating that they quote only a single study (Benenson Strategy Group survey for PAX of parents with children age 5-14, January-February, 2006) for their statistic, but fail to give any information about the methodology other than the timeframe in which it was conducted (BTW, this "National ASK Day"is sponsored by a group out of NYC called PAX).

Anyway, I figure that I wouldn't feel uncomfortable because someone asked me such a question, but just because they ask doesn't mean I feel any obligation to respond anymore than I would if they were to start quizzing me on my bathroom habits.

Mithras61 wrote: quizzing me on my bathroom habits.

http://www.toiletstool.com/survey/

Ask them if they have any liquid drain opener under their cabinets?
Or, do they have a car in their driveway?

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.

Of course I have guns. Would you like to go shooting? We can take the kids along, everyone will have fun.

Don't worry, shooting sports are very safe. Always remember 4 simple safety rules and everything will be fine.

And don't worry about any of the kids finding a gun in my house, all guns are locked up when we are not using them.

How about Saturday morning at 9:00 am, I will drive.