I don't have kids yet myself, but I do own several guns. I grew up in a household with guns. My father grew up in a household with guns. My mother grew up in a household with guns. Three of my grandparents grew up in households with guns. The other thing all these households had in common was gun safety. As a small child, I never saw any of my family's guns left unsecured outside the direct control of an adult. Even before I was old enough to be shooting/hunting, gun safety was paramount. All of my father's guns had trigger locks and were kept in safes. The ammunition was never stored with the gun (and they were never loaded, and CERTAINLY never had a round chambered... "the bullet doesn't go in the gun until you intend to use it"), and was itself locked up well out of the reach of any children. There was a gun kept in my parents' bedroom, but it was similarly locked, secured, and unloaded. I was taught gun safety, my younger sister was taught gun safety. Any time other children were over, the last step before they came was always a security check on all the guns, and making sure nothing was in view that might get kids even curious about the presence of guns. None of us has ever had an issue (and by the way, I'm a big fan of shooter and other video games including violence, and I never confused my duck hunt gun with any of the real guns lying around, so that's just absurd).
When (responsible) parents have toddlers around the house they go through great pains to make sure kitchen sinks are locked, glassware and other breakables are well out of reach, and any of the countless other hazardous and quite potentially lethal things are inaccessible to children. The carving knife in the wood block on the counter is a good analog, and we don't hear nearly as many stories of children hurting themselves with them. Why don't parents take the same precautions with guns? This isn't about the child thinking it's a toy, this was about the parent (ok, step-parent) thinking it was a toy.
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So the Android phone is a direct substitute for the iPhone, and also has porn? Thanks for clearing that up Steve!
Also, I don't think anyone failed to map "more reputable companies" to "companies that can pay us enough to shelve our so-called principles"...
I don't have kids yet myself, but I do own several guns. I grew up in a household with guns. My father grew up in a household with guns. My mother grew up in a household with guns. Three of my grandparents grew up in households with guns. The other thing all these households had in common was gun safety. As a small child, I never saw any of my family's guns left unsecured outside the direct control of an adult. Even before I was old enough to be shooting/hunting, gun safety was paramount. All of my father's guns had trigger locks and were kept in safes. The ammunition was never stored with the gun (and they were never loaded, and CERTAINLY never had a round chambered... "the bullet doesn't go in the gun until you intend to use it"), and was itself locked up well out of the reach of any children. There was a gun kept in my parents' bedroom, but it was similarly locked, secured, and unloaded. I was taught gun safety, my younger sister was taught gun safety. Any time other children were over, the last step before they came was always a security check on all the guns, and making sure nothing was in view that might get kids even curious about the presence of guns. None of us has ever had an issue (and by the way, I'm a big fan of shooter and other video games including violence, and I never confused my duck hunt gun with any of the real guns lying around, so that's just absurd).
When (responsible) parents have toddlers around the house they go through great pains to make sure kitchen sinks are locked, glassware and other breakables are well out of reach, and any of the countless other hazardous and quite potentially lethal things are inaccessible to children. The carving knife in the wood block on the counter is a good analog, and we don't hear nearly as many stories of children hurting themselves with them. Why don't parents take the same precautions with guns? This isn't about the child thinking it's a toy, this was about the parent (ok, step-parent) thinking it was a toy.
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