[RNR19952]

I like your thoughts there, personally I would like a three strikes your dead law, save the taxpayers a lot of money. And not death row for ten years either, professional jurers, discrete judges and swift cases.

[RNR19952]

You have got to be kidding me. Unless the people in the house are mental defectives, in which case you should also lock up your knives, etc.I totally disagree that locking up guns is gun safety. What kind of twisted sense does that make? Again I will repeat...Teach your children about guns and respect and you will have no problems with either..The only person who is safer because you have all your guns locked up, is the criminal who invades your house. Teach people gun safety, locks obviously do not stop criminals.

[lordmorgul]

I absolutely agree with you [~47126], with one exception... safety of very young children. Larger firearms should be stored in a secure gun safe, and if you have multiple handguns they should probably be there too. One or two handguns should be stored in an accessible location in your bedroom and possibly a family room, but they should be in a FAST-ACCESS HANDGUN SAFE. Fingerprint-enabled locks and/or short code-based locks are available on small safes that are very affordable these days, and provide you with a way to protect the weapon from young children, and make it accessible to you and your spouse or older children at the same time. It is a more responsible thing to do, with a very low impact on your safety.



To all the rest of the thread:

Certainly any older child (with 'normal cognitive functioning' and the ability to exercise reasonable judgement) should have access to your firearms. If you lock away guns from your own older children you place them at higher risk of being a victim. A 12 yr old girl made headlines last year when she was home alone but was able to defend herself when two armed assailants attacked her; that would have been a very different and tragic story had she not been taught to use a firearm responsibly. I can promise the skeptics in this thread when I have a daughter she will know how to use a firearm responsibly, whether she wants to or not.



You have the right and responsibility to defend yourself and your family. If you are not there to defend them, and have not taught them to defend themselves, then you failed in the responsibility you have to your family members.



Liberals in America and many other countries would have you believe that owning firearms makes you more likely to be a victim of violent crime, and that you should not be allowed to legally own firearms. They claim that removing all firearms from American homes will decrease violent crimes. They routinely cite studies that are biased and inaccurate when doing so, often ignoring or hiding the staggering statistics of how many UNREGISTERED or ILLEGALLY obtained firearms are used in violent crimes every day. Criminals will not follow gun laws, and they would prefer that you not own any weapons either. To someone planning to commit a crime, nothing could be more reassuring than to know you cannot defend yourself. Criminals know that law enforcement resources are too slow to respond to prevent all violent crimes and our penal system is too lenient on people who commit armed robbery, burglary other crimes committed in home invasions.



Firearm owners need to be vigilant to prevent their guns from being stolen and used in crimes by locking them in safes when leaving the home. They need to protect children that may injure themselves without knowing how to safely handle a firearm. However, children who can safely cut their own steak with a sharp knife can handle a firearm, and could defend themselves if necessary... unless you were too foolish to teach them to, in which case your children may be kidnapped, raped, or murdered when you fail to protect them and they COULD have protected themselves.

[RNR19952]

Yes to me a gun lock is like a submarine screen door.
A gun safe on the other hand will hopefully keep the criminals from STEALING YOUR GUNS!

No children in my house, but if there were they would be educated, I would have no fear of leaving loaded weapons around the house.

[matchbox2022]

I do believe that prisoners are treated too well, they shouldn't have rights at that point.
However, my belief honestly is that all people do have inherrent good in them, even if selfishness, greed, and ruthlessness are in the way.
Killing them is just as bad. Killing is wrong, no matter who's doing it. It's better for that person to find a change and hopefully and ideally, become a better person, and help others become more than they are. By avenging victims by killing others, it's simply putting all that happened to shame, with no good coming out of it.

They should be allowed a chance to change, however I do believe that if absolutely nessicary killing may need to be done. But in my opinion the times when it would be ok are sooooooooo few compared to how much actually goes on, even when it comes to capital punishment. The logical thing to do IS execution, but just cause it's logical doesn't mean it's right.

[lordmorgul]

Matchbox, that is a very nice but completely useless two-paragraphs of 'on one hand but on the other hand' contradiction. It would seem you have no conviction behind any conclusion one way or the other.

[jonarosen]

Simple enough. Shoot the kid.

[jonarosen]

Did you read the whole thing?

the kid BROKE INTO THE LOCKBOX THAT HAD THE HALO 3 GAME AND THE GUN

In other words.. no, the gun wasn't just lying around somewhere