I wish I could remember what I did with the keys to my trigger locks???
I always keep my guns locked (and loaded) ;)
>> “Our primary recommendation is that parents should remove guns from the home,”
Ah, so. Now he stops beating around the bush and gets to his point.
Invasive, intrusive, rude b@stards!
If a doctor asks me if I own guns, I will storm out of his office and report him/her to the state medical board.
If a pollster asks me anything over the phone about my owning guns, I will lie like a sonofab!tch!
Asking if you own guns or how many guns do you own is like asking how much money do you make or how much do you weigh.
My response to `how many guns do you own?’ is,
“More than I need, but not as many as I want!”
Infantile pablum from the Left again. Children raised with guns, taught how to safely use guns, clean and maintain guns, and respect guns will do just that.
The Left has done its level best to destroy personal responsibility since the 60’s. They succeeded. They created irresponsible imbeciles and then said—”see, we were right, people and guns are unsafe”.
Some day I will make a retirement tour of every known final resting place wherein the esteemed leadership of the Left in America have been interred. I will ensure I have an uncomfortably full bladder which expediency and comfort demand I immediately relieve. I will do so with gusto.
Being in reasonably good health I expect I will outlive 95% of the wretches responsible.
Might take my dog with me...
RWJF === gun grabbers; major funders of the Brady Bunch.
At most, I give it four years before these leftists pass laws making owning weapons in homes with children felony child abuse.
I grew up in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Safe storage was that the guns were in Daddy’s room along with the ammo and none of that was to be touched. You could go in there and get some licorice, but never touch the guns. Such was the case (with or without the licorice!) in every household in town. No incidents ever reported. And it was a small town, so if anything gun-related ever happened everyone would have known about it. I’m not against safe storage, but properly trained children go a long way towards gun safety.
Safely stored in every room of my home, loaded and on the ready.
Makes you wonder how the country survived when safe firearm storage was making sure your loaded gun was hanging above the door instead of laying around.
If it isn’t loaded it is nothing more than a club.
“Our primary recommendation is that parents should remove guns from the home,” DuRant said.”
Where to start, where to start?
First, there is the overtly anti-gun premise of the author and this important factor is not even slightly veiled. Thus the bias of the “investigators” is immediately called into question.
Second, as any non-Liberal knows (and even Liberals should know), weapons are useless unless readily available. Why? Criminals prefer unarmed and unaware victims.
One can’t help wondering about the author - is he French by family origin? The name and spelling - DuRant is curious. “Du” is ‘you’ in that language. Hmmmn - “YouRant” seems all too apt for another “surrender monkey” calling for removal of guns by parents.
“Do it for the children” won’t stand critical analysis. Even assuming that removing guns would save a child’s life or prevent a shooting, given that protection of the family from crime is essential, we have to accept that some child deaths are the price of freedom - IF we refuse to train and discipline said children.
Fortunately, there is an inherent justice built into the American system. Children of hoplophobics are over represented in the population of gun related accident victims.
Dr. Durant seems to be denying the following stark reality:
In homes of those regularly described as “gun culture” members, there are far fewer such deaths than amongst the homes of the more “Liberal”, the more “Progressive”, ad nauseam.
That assumes that such people had at least sufficient notocord to have a gun in the first place.
When I grew up, I didn’t fear my fathers gun, I feared what would happen if I played with it. But, my father wasn’t a Liberal or a Progressive.
If Dr. DuRant thinks that a gun grabbing, “Do it for the children”, Nanny State gun ban will substitute for either traditional American parenting, or be acceptable to the majority of Americans, I suggest he study the number of states that have returned to Constitutional, historically proven, gun ownership AND have enacted laws to assure such rights.
Heh, heh, heh.....My 5 yr old has his own gun.
Did you read the story about childhood ear infections in the American Rifleman? No? I wonder why?
It’s nonsense to keep a gun collection out where any burglar can do a smash and grab. Ditto for the people who keep guns in a car and then forget to lock their doors. A friend was walking in a parking lot and he saw a 1911 laying on the seat of a jeep. I guess the guy had plenty of insurance.
You need a gun to answer a door at night or a shotgun for trouble then do so. For anything else, keep them locked in the best fireproof safe you can afford.
I cannot disagree with this statement. However, a suicidal person having access to an automobile, a gas stove, a length of rope, or a bottle of acetominphen equally increases the likelihood that those objects will be used in a suicide.
Guns don't promote suicide any more than a spoon is to blame for Rosie O'Donnell being fat.
I gun safe my kids - because kid-safeing your guns doesn’t always work.
(Especially if my kids are anything like me when I was younger)