[Pharmboy]

I await the pediatrician's next article reviewing how children fared during the 20th Century in countries that removed guns from private possession. /sarc

[hattend]

Few families store their firearms safely, according to a pediatric researcher at Brenner Children's Hospital

Streets are running red with children's blood!

[Ancesthntr]

“Our primary recommendation is that parents should remove guns from the home,” DuRant said.”

Wow, I’m glad I was sitting down - actual honesty from a gun-grabbing SOB?! I’m really shocked - that he said it, not that this is what he and his paymasters want.

So, his reiterating a line from history: “Spartans, lay down your weapons!” To which I can only reply ***MOLON LABE!!! Persian, come and get them!!!***
http://www.moviesonline.ca/TheFeed/index.php?id=300-laydownyourweapons

“They tend to be more comfortable with guns and are less likely to store them safely. We also found that families who had children aged 2 to 5 years and owned long guns were more likely to store guns safely than families with older children.”

Really? No kidding, you mean that people who are accustomed to something are comfortable with it? Kind of like France having extremely few alcoholics despite letting their 5 year olds drink wine at the dinner table? Idiot! OF COURSE families with guns are less likely to store them “safely” (your definition, not mine) - because true safety is between your ears, moron, it isn’t a lock. It most certainly isn’t a gun with a trigger lock or which is disassembled - because then it can’t be used for its 2nd most important use, protecting one’s self and family from street criminals.

Oh, and the MOST important use for firearms in case you wanted to know, DuRant you nadless wonder, is protection from the bought and paid agents in Washington of your paymasters. See one of the most artful and cutting statements of this on the following video, beginning where there are about 40 seconds left (but watch the whole thing, and pass it on):

http://www.washingtonceasefire.com/content/view/23/35/

[Godzilla]

I await the pediatrician's next article reviewing how children fared during the 20th Century in countries that removed guns from private possession

"Political Correctness" is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous, mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

[ninenot]

"However, if parents are unwilling to do that, they should lock all guns with gun locks and store them separately from ammunition."

Safe for WHOM?

The whole point of having a handgun is self-defense, not time-trials for unlocking and loading...

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

An anti-gun University Doctor. Wow! Whodathunkit???

[looscnnn]

Yeah, like “safely storing” them up will stop them from being used for suicide.

[beenhereforever]

In hopes that some of the people who have shown interest will get back, I'd like to explain something that all gun owners should know about the numerous studies that have been done in recent years supposedly about "unsafe gun storage."

The studies are good studies, but they aren't actually about storage, as the ignorant doctors represent them to be. The problem doesn't arise from bias. It arises from their ignorance. I haven't even looked at this particular study yet, but I would bet money that the problem is the same as with all the others.

You see, gun storage is about what you do with the gun when you aren't using it and don't have it under your personal control (as by having it on you or up on the shelf in the room where you're near and can control access to it).

All these "storage" studies actually involve the survey peeples contacting an adult at the adult's home and asking whether there is a child in the home and if there is a gun loaded or unlocked in the home at the time. All the studies get the questions from a "healthy families" survey developed by ignorant or biased doctors several years ago.

When someone at home along with her gun answers, because she has a gun ready for self/home defense, that there is a gun that is loaded and unlocked, the doctors conclude that it is stored unsafely even though it is being used, not stored. For further explanation, see http://www.gunsandcrime.org/storage.html

Rather than people just telling the doctor about "boundary" or telling the doc to mind his own business, I'd like people to tell their doctors that the studies they're told are about storage aren't really - and that the studies are worthless because the study questions were developed by people too ignorant about gun use to see the difference between usage and storage. And the problem is mainly with pediatricians, so we need to explain to our children and grandchildren so that they can be prepared to set their pediatricians straight.

Although the medical community wrongly interprets the results of these studies, quite valid studies have shown that a large portion of the young children (especially boys) left around a firearm actually find and "mess" with them, even when the parents are confident that their children are well trained and would not do so. Also, when looking at difficulty of pulling a trigger, don't assume that the gun could only be discharged by holding the gun and pulling the trigger in the normal way. Could it be fired by the child using both thumbs whild holding it with the grip down on the floor and the muzzle pointed up at the child's head? If you have children around, please don't let them be near unsecured firearms if someone isn't right there ready to control access.