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With the technology we have now, you can IMO keep your gun loaded in the house and out of the reach of children. At my house we have a safe for our gun that opens with fingerprint recognition technology. The kids cannot open it but I or my husband can in an emergency. If people are serious about protecting their homes AND their family, they will keep their guns out of the hands of young children in situations such as what occurred in the OP article.
Such a tragic situation and I'm sure it will scar the 4 year old for life. I cannot imagine the pain my 4 year old would feel knowing she did something like that. She gets sad when she kills a bug let alone a baby.
I so agree with you, we are like you. Have our guns put in the safe as you do, any kid as you know with the new technology, cannot open the safe, no matter how hard they try. Both of us can, but no one else.
I come from a hunting family background, hated it, but that was reality. My brother and myself, and my cousins were shooting from the time we were around 7 to 10 yrs old. We learned how to shoot, clean the guns, and all about the safety. That still did not mean that guns were left around the house. They were at that time in a regular safe.
This is a very tragic situation, and has happened more then once. It is only common sense that should tell any adult, that guns and kids don't mix.
I am more then sure that this 4 yrd old will be scared for life, and this is sad.
As little kids, we knew what guns did, we also were taught about the dangers of guns, that is why we learned how to shoot, from an early age, about safety, and also how to clean the gun which i hated.
Guns and children are a bad mix, if a loaded gun, is in arms reach.
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.
tell me how many cops go home after work, unload their firearms and store both in seperate locations?
no, there is not time to get your ammo from the safe, grab your gun and still triple tap the crook.
when seconds count, the cops are minutes or hours away.
my youngest daughter knew gun safety since she was 4, and has been shooting since she was 5. kids are smart enough to learn, some people just dont want to teach them firearm safety.
tell me how many cops go home after work, unload their firearms and store both in seperate locations?
no, there is not time to get your ammo from the safe, grab your gun and still triple tap the crook.
when seconds count, the cops are minutes or hours away.
my youngest daughter knew gun safety since she was 4, and has been shooting since she was 5. kids are smart enough to learn, some people just dont want to teach them firearm safety.
Exactly. The article points to non-existing parenting as the problem, not the presence of a gun. Like you, I was taught about guns at an early age, they were just something we didn't think about "playing" with as kids. There was no "forbidden fruit" issue since we were able to handle and shoot them regularly.
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