I hope you’re being facetious, because that is definitely NOT the answer. What will your kids do when a neighbor kid produces a weapon, or a friend, or a kid at school? I want my kids to know how to handle it, and know when the kid handling it is an idiot so they’ll duck and cover. Teaching the kids how to use them is the ultimate answer.
He didn't say it was the answer. He posted it as rule #2. Rule #1 was posted as always treating guns as if the were loaded.
Are you being facetious?
No. Teaching and locking up are two different things entirely. Teach your kids by all means - hell, I learned how to handle and fire everything from a machine gun to a flintlock by the time I was 12 from a big time gun collector and long time family friend.
Locking up just means that when you are not around, the kid or someone else will not have access to it. If you specifically give the kid a gun, then that is on you. Kids are kids - they make a lot of mistakes. Showing and telling with a gun should not be something a kid should do - which seems to be the situation here.