Hidden?! Sheesh...what good are your guns if you hide them? :-)
PLEASE...no comments about their "positions" and one being in front of the other during live fire. It's CQB and the firing line is DYNAMIC.
Molon Labe.
Posted on 09/06/2005 8:42:24 PM PDT by neverhome
I have just finished reading an overview of a report, "PAX/Real Solutions to Gun Violence," claiming that the vast majority of parents don't have a clue about gun safety. According to the report, 72 percent of parents with loaded guns in the home believed that their children didn't know the location of the "family gun" while 80 percent of the children actually knew exactly where the gun was hidden.
The report even urges parents to ask other parents if they have guns in their homes before letting their children go visit their friends to play. If my parents had barred me from playing at friends' homes in which guns were present, I'd have been stuck at home throughout my youth.
After reading all the gun-related gobbly-goop in this article, I am amazed that I'm still alive. How did I manage to survive childhood without getting shot while mindlessly playing with one of my dad's guns? Let me set the stage for you…
(Excerpt) Read more at alanburkhart.com ...
I wish I had been raised around guns; it's a pretty much recent interest of mine. Still love them, though.
My folks finally resorted to hiding the Christmas presents at my grandparents' house... I still found'em!
:p
This article is probably correct, (definitely about the need for gun training early) but the idea that a "hidden gun" is more likely to kill someone sounds like something I would read in an anti gun pamphlet.
As for having unlocked guns around when neighborhood kids can come over and play, I think this is very risky. You may teach your own kids, but they may not always be able to monitor their friends.
We taught our son about guns, (and he had a course in the Boy Scouts too, good for them). But he knew the gun was in a locked case and he was not to let his friends even know about our weapon. I know as a kid I knew every hiding place in the house, someday I have to ask him whether he ever tried to locate the key and check out the gun?
He was also taught not to reveal the presense of a gun to doctors or teachers. Noisy leftists trying to do surveys.
I was 18 and my first "gun" was a computer simulation (F.A.T.S.). Right off the bat, I caused an accidental discharge that would have killed the captain standing near me.
I can't explain it... I knew the rule, not resting your finger like that, but I just didn't follow it.
Great article. Anybody who owns a gun and doesn't teach their kids about gun safety (at the earliest age possible) is an idiot.
Perhaps guns should be added to the Physical Education curriculum in schools?
Remember P.E.? Teaching kids all the fun things they could do if they weren't so damn lazy.
No big. I know a Captain who had a real deal AD. Nearly killed two officers next to him. He'd make a great pastry chef.
My folks kept a loaded gun in their bedroom for protection, but other guns could not be loaded inside the house, nor was I allowed to transport a loaded gun. If I went to the woods, it stayed unloaded until I got out of the car to go a-huntin'. I still do it that way, as does my son.
[Perhaps guns should be added to the Physical Education curriculum in schools?]
Now THERE'S an idea!
The funny thing was his parents didn't have any guns at the time. My grandson is 16 now and has a few guns of his own..
Lessons that are taught well and practiced often are extremely difficult to forget.
I was reading your tagline...
Are you a trucker, biker, or an RV'er?
Or did I miss all the way around?
Well, my wife and I are full time RV'ers. I have done some biking, but no trucking. Except that now I feel I have a lot in common with truckers -- wide turns, five axels.
Right now we are up high in Arizona, looking to head to South Texas for the Fall and then Alabama for our son's graduation in Dec. Thanks for asking.
"Now THERE'S an idea!"
Every once and a while I come up with one... perhaps that 3rd rum and coke had something to do with it? ;)
I couldn't agree more.
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