The Constitution says you can.............................
Free men (and women) don’t ask permission - if you are asking permission to do what the Constitution already says you can, you are consenting to the destruction of the 2nd Amendment. When are we actually going to start acting like Americans?
So wait - a child’s natural parent(s) can carry to protect their child, but foster parents can’t?
I think the foster parents need to think twice.
I was raised in a home with loaded guns, and even five-year-old me knew that if I ever touched one, the consequences would be dire. I never violated the rule. I have a healthy respect for firearms — call it gun sense.
But these foster parents won’t know anything about how the kids who come into their care have been raised. They’ll be dropped off, possibly in the middle of the night, with a garbage bag full of clothes. Will they respect your rules? Maybe. But it’s one thing if you tell them to go to bed and they ignore you. It’s quite another if they’re told, “Don’t mess with this gun” and they ignore you.
The consequences could be catastrophic for both parents and foster kids for no reason other than kid curiosity.