Originally Posted by
littlewaywelt
I have as well (only to stay away from them at this point due to their ages), as my father did with me but I also remember how curious I was as a kid. I can't be sure that on a play date, some kid my kids are friends with has been "trained" or that his parents don't realize his big brother has a gun, or the wife thinks the husband has the weapon secured and locked when in fact it's within a 6yo's reach.
The choices you refer to, while true, result in kids getting killed for no other reason than the parent needing something to feel secure and negate a threat that is less likely than a kid finding and discharging the weapon. They also result in dead spouses when emotions run high and logic is suppressed.
Um, wasn't Nicole Brown Simpson STABBED TO DEATH? Look, I understand your feelings on firearms. They make you uncomfortable. That's OK. But you keep making up statistics to back your case, and what you claim just isn't true, or is so rare as to not be of any importance. The vast majority of shootings in the US are committed by criminals---against other criminals. Are spouses shot during domestics? Sure. But they are also choked, stabbed, run over with cars(see the crazed dentist in Texas), lit on fire, and beaten to death.
Kids are far more likely to die in swimming pools. Do you worry that your kid will drown at a friends' house?