Posted on 03/14/2002 7:03:52 PM PST by Copernicus
Does anyone know why the pictures didn't post from the website?
Thanks.
Now I will try this one!
My point is I am teaching my kids to respect firearms but I can't get my 3 1/2 yr old to stop standing on the couch even though I've told her a thousand times not to. A 3 1/2 yr old doesn't understand no/don't touch/ too dangerous to play with to know for sure they will not shoot themselves or someone else.
That's my point and it aint on top of my head. Beep beep beep beep. That's how fast I can get to my gun and it's a hell of a lot quicker that fishing around under my mattress.
They make excellent gate and bicycle locks.
Cable locks really are useless for firearms. I used mine in Paris on the subway from DeGaulle into town - locked all my bags together & then to my ankle so I could safely take a nap!
-bc
The unintended uses of free gunlocks.
We don't have gun locks but we do have magna-triggers on our house guns. If my very young grandkids, nephew and niece are visiting then the 1911A1 is locked away in a liberty gun safe when it's not in my holster.
Stay Safe !
After thinking about this problem I think I'll start sleeping with an elephant gun!!!
I just was awoken by my dog barking about a 1/2 hour ago. He barks when the newspaper hits the porch. My daughter comes down to our bedroom about 2 mins. later complaining she is cold (her room is the coldest) and climbs into bed with us.
Now none of us will get to sleep another wink as our 8 month old is refusing to go back to sleep as well.
I decide, or rather my bladder decides, that I shouldn't just lay in bed but should go upstairs to piss and as I cross the hallway upstairs to go the bathroom I see a strange thing.
My daughter, before coming downstairs, had decided to pull the space heater over next to her bed. I've told her a million times don't touch the space heater, fire, bad bad bad, just like the wood stove will burn you up, cook you.
Well she did it anyway and the damn thing is right against her blanket, which if she had just pulled up off the floor she wouldn't have been cold, and now the blanket is in that magic moment where it's on fire but not in flames.
It has a hole melted through it about the size of my fist which seems appropriate because now I want to punch somebody or something I'm so mad. Luckily he blanket was/is flame retardent or it could have cost us the house and maybe my son who sleeps in the room next door to her.
Probably not him because the smoke detector is right over their doorways and I have two fire extiquishers mounted just outside of my doorway and one in the kitchen about 1 feet from my kid's doors.
Preparedness doesn't mean just have a weapon next to the bed and I guess I knew that but now I know it even more; just like a teenage girl who's period is a week late knows the importance of chastity and virtue a little better than she did last week.
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