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This is not an "anti-gun" question, but a home protection one.
In the article, the police office was paraphrased as saying:
He said the shooting underscores the need for firearm owners storing their weapons to keep them unloaded, with ammunition stored separately, and secure them under lock and key.
If your gun is locked away, unloaded, and with ammunition stored separately, and someone breaks into your house in the middle of the night (for example), is there time to grab the key, unlock the safe (or whatever), take the separately stored ammunition, put the ammunition in the gun, and have it at the ready?
Now, I completely understand the reasoning behind such measures (and this tragedy underlines this reasoning), but that question popped into my mind.
This is not an "anti-gun" question, but a home protection one.
In the article, the police office was paraphrased as saying:
He said the shooting underscores the need for firearm owners storing their weapons to keep them unloaded, with ammunition stored separately, and secure them under lock and key.
If your gun is locked away, unloaded, and with ammunition stored separately, and someone breaks into your house in the middle of the night (for example), is there time to grab the key, unlock the safe (or whatever), take the separately stored ammunition, put the ammunition in the gun, and have it at the ready?
Now, I completely understand the reasoning behind such measures (and this tragedy underlines this reasoning), but that question popped into my mind.
it's a good question. a gun isn't much good unless it's readily available and ready to fire.
but that means your kids can probably get to it and use it as well.
This is not an "anti-gun" question, but a home protection one.
In the article, the police office was paraphrased as saying:
If your gun is locked away, unloaded, and with ammunition stored separately, and someone breaks into your house in the middle of the night (for example), is there time to grab the key, unlock the safe (or whatever), take the separately stored ammunition, put the ammunition in the gun, and have it at the ready?
Now, I completely understand the reasoning behind such measures (and this tragedy underlines this reasoning), but that question popped into my mind.
If you have kids you HAVE to take extra precautions to make sure they can't get to them.
That's just pure logic.
In the county where I used to live, TWO police officer's children have died because they got hold of their fathers' service weapons.
One, a boy shot and killed his sister, and in the second, more recent case, a three year old boy shot himself in the head.
I guess I'm trying to say that if law enforcement personnel haven't figured out how to protect their children, then how can we expect the general public to do what's right with their weapons?
On the other hand, if it doesn't happen very often, then what's the point of having a gun in the house?
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