Hugabear (9,634 posts)
Guns should not be kept in houses where children are present
Of course not! They should learn all about firearms from leftist Hollyweird actors, not their parents!

I don't care how careful you are, we are all human, and we all make careless mistakes from time to time. Whether it's finding a set of keys, carelessly leaving the gun unlocked, or just sheer brute force, kids/teenagers manage to get ahold of guns all the time.
Funny, I found that teaching my children safety, proper shooting, how to safe and clear weapons, what firearms would do to another human being, and a healthy dose of fear if they ever attempted to take a firearm out of my house has been a better deterrent to them acting like idiots. Then again, my children are raised with standards and discipline...
Perhaps gun ranges, National Guard armories, etc could set up a system whereby a gun owner could store their firearms and access them when they want to go hunting, target shooting, etc. Guns would be much safer from theft in these places, as these places tend to have very good security systems. You wouldn't have to worry about your kids somehow getting ahold of your gun and shooting themselves or someone else. You don't have to worry about little Johnny finding your gun and taking it to school for show-and-tell with his friends.
Yeah, because armory thefts
never happen, do they, DUmbass?
As far as home defense goes, if you have children in your house, you stand a much better chance of your kids getting ahold of your gun than you do some intruder breaking in.
Considering my children that are over the age of 13 are very good shots and know where the guns are, I would say the idiot breaking into my home would have all the guns he could ever want - as long as he didn't mind staring down the barrel of them.
Same thing would go for households with a resident who is mentally unstable, such as Adam Lanza. If you know that someone in your house is mentally unstable, you should NOT be keeping guns there.
Having an uninstitutionalized, mentally unstable person in my home would be cause for me to wear a sidearm pretty much all day long.