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One problem (as I see it) is that our OWN kids can be taught. But we cannot have control over what THEIR friends know/do not know. And the law will hold US, the owner, responsible for any child who gains access to our guns.
I don't disagree with the law. I just want to avoid a tragedy.. (especially one where my kid gets shot by another's kid.)
When my daughter was only 5 years old, a neighbor boy was brought into the house by her to gather up some toys to take back outside. I was sitting in the living room watching TV.
I suddenly realized I was hearing a handgun being dry-fired. I jumped up and ran to the hallway which enters our home, to find the neighbor kid pointing an Allen & Thurber pepperbox pistol at my daughter and repeatedly dry-firing it at her. :shock:
(My home has antique furniture in it, including a hall-tree from an old bank at the entrance to the hallway. On it, for decoration only, was a banker's derby hat, gloves, umbrella-cane, and the unloaded, cap-and-ball, pepperbox pistol. It gave the appearance an 1840's-era banker had come home for the evening and dropped his personal objects at the halltree. My daughter had never paid the least attention to it.)
I was horrified that a kid's first inclination was to pick the gun up and fire it at another kid!
I scolded the child and sent him home to his parents with a note about the matter, hoping it shocked them as well. I never heard from them again, and I used the event as an object lesson to myself.
I don't disagree with the law. I just want to avoid a tragedy.. (especially one where my kid gets shot by another's kid.)
When my daughter was only 5 years old, a neighbor boy was brought into the house by her to gather up some toys to take back outside. I was sitting in the living room watching TV.
I suddenly realized I was hearing a handgun being dry-fired. I jumped up and ran to the hallway which enters our home, to find the neighbor kid pointing an Allen & Thurber pepperbox pistol at my daughter and repeatedly dry-firing it at her. :shock:
(My home has antique furniture in it, including a hall-tree from an old bank at the entrance to the hallway. On it, for decoration only, was a banker's derby hat, gloves, umbrella-cane, and the unloaded, cap-and-ball, pepperbox pistol. It gave the appearance an 1840's-era banker had come home for the evening and dropped his personal objects at the halltree. My daughter had never paid the least attention to it.)
I was horrified that a kid's first inclination was to pick the gun up and fire it at another kid!
I scolded the child and sent him home to his parents with a note about the matter, hoping it shocked them as well. I never heard from them again, and I used the event as an object lesson to myself.