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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery Why wouldn't locking them in a safe make you safer, not more vulnerable? You're deliberately distorting his point, agree or not. In fact, it's the gun people who keep telling me they stress, teach and preach safety safety safety. It was the 100 times thing that sounds so silly like as if no one knows if you have kids around to take precautions. It's a good thing cloudboy was here to give us all such great advice To say 100 times more paranoid is absurd. "100x" is a tongue and cheek characterization. But the basic fact is: a gun owner has to always worry about the gun in his house and the ammunition. Who has access to the gun? Is there a chance it could be misused? When should you get the gun if you feel fearful? This calculus gets even more complicated with children around, inter-spousal tensions, crazy-argumentative friends-extended family members, drugs and alcohol, etc. That's the finding of the NEJM research, but it totally comports with common sense. The gun in the house is also a constant worry, whereas being threatened is a random occurance that may or may not occur over the course of years. So, securing the gun is probably #1 safety issue for gun owners. As I see it, its just simpler to not own one. It also guarantees no misuse of one. Misuse (in terms of homicides) is more the norm than actual "my life's in danger" self defense. The only time I would buy a gun is if I actually needed it (a Cape Fear scenario.) I might consider one if I lived way out in the country. Zimmerman, Wilson, and this guy -- all would have been better off unarmed....... I get the tongue and cheek but it's still silly like we don't already know these things. Once you bring a kid into the home there are a whole bunch of things you need to pay attention to. A gun is just one more thing added to a long list. A gun in the house is not a constant worry. It only takes once to figure out where to safely put your stuff and or lock it up. If yer worrying about it all the time yer gunna have a heart attack. I also disagree with your notion that it's complicated. It's actually quite simple. The problems with guns in the home are, by and large, products of dysfunctional people. You will find that drugs and or alcohol are contributing factors in the overwhelming majority of guns in the home problems. 80 million or so people don't seem to have these problems. Maybe you need to try posting your advice in the "Dysfunctional Family Forum". And I'm not so sure Zimmerman would have been better off without his gun, Trayvon certainly would have.
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"Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world." Unknown "Long hair, short hair—what's the difference once the head's blowed off." - Farmer Yassir
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