[Bluntpoint]

Unloaded guns with trigger locks, locked away in safes...are bad!

You might just as well have a cantalope locked up in such a fashion as far as defending your family with it!

[SLB]

Link to an article in the local paper this morning - http://www.newsenterpriseonline.com/articles/2004/02/04/news/news04.txt

[George W. Bush]

Unloaded guns with trigger locks, locked away in safes...are bad! You might just as well have a cantalope locked up in such a fashion as far as defending your family with it!

Bluntpoint, people take the measure of safety in different ways. As is their right. If they at least have guns, maybe we should give them a pass and focus on the undefended idiots and the gungrabbers.

I've often wondered if gunowners organizations should undertake an effort to put signs outside of gunowners homes that say 'Warning: armed homeowner". Let the crooks observe that and then go hit the undefended. They might soon see the merits of gun ownership more clearly! A grassroots initiative that might actually succeed without new laws enacted or lobbyists or campaigns.

Even if the libs simply put up their own 'warning' signs to avoid being hit but still didn't have guns, they would be acknowledging publicly that guns are our best protection against violent criminals and theft.