Hey Mom where’s my socks??? Bang!!
She’s not straddling the line between responsible and idiot, she’s an idiot.
From the time they were little I’ve given my kids unloaded guns to play with after explaining to them the dangers and setting up the rules. I got their gun curiosity all out of them. If you make it a taboo, then they’ll have it in mind all the time.
I would haul them out, let them play with them as long as they wanted. Eventually, they tired of touching and holding them. As they got big enough we’d go shooting. They knew that a gun is a tool, neither good nor bad.
Of course, liberals are control freaks, so liberty is out of the question.