New friends and guns

[Larry Gude]

I have always assumed...

If your child is going to play at a friend's house do you ask the parents if there are any guns in the house and if so are the guns locked up?

...every body has a gun. Not sure how they could protect my child if it was needed and it was locked up. Maybe throw it at someone?

We've had one parent ask that, years ago, and I was like "Of course we have guns in the house." They let their kid over.

 

[Larry Gude]

No...

So you guys just let your kids go on faith and hope? I mean you must care about the house where they will be spending a chunck of time :shrug:

...ideally, they think their kids are worth protecting too and have guns.

 

[Larry Gude]

What...

God, I was in some scary situations growing up because my parents did just that. I guess I want to do my best to make sure that they don't go through what I did.

...happened?

 

[vraiblonde]

...happened?

Please don't ask her that

 

[Qurious]

They wouldn't go over if the parents had guns in the home, i dont care if they were locked.

 

[Chain729]

They wouldn't go over if the parents had guns in the home, i dont care if they were locked.

People like you worry me. Is :deadhamster: syndrome genetic?

 

[Foxhound]

Did your parents give every parent of your friends the third degree before you got to play at their houses? Did you survive?

 

[Bird Dog]

They wouldn't go over if the parents had guns in the home, i dont care if they were locked.

I think more kids die in backyard pools, than by a friends parents gun. I don't have the stats but just from reading.

 

[Geek]

...ideally, they think their kids are worth protecting too and have guns.

I am not against guns in private homes. I do want to know that the set up the house has is safe for my kids, considering their age. My sister and her husband do not have kids and are not going to. They own guns and keep them in a way that is uncomfortable for me. I have asked her to secure them when I am there and I never take my eyes off my kids.

as for what happened to me (sorry vrai). Just typical stuff. Alone with a friend's Dad that made me uncomfortable. Finding out years later three of my friends had been molested growing up. By people we knew.

 

[teverheart2002]

I am not against guns in private homes. I do want to know that the set up the house has is safe for my kids, considering their age. My sister and her husband do not have kids and are not going to. They own guns and keep them in a way that is uncomfortable for me. I have asked her to secure them when I am there and I never take my eyes off my kids.

Good for you. I say this becuase we have guns with no kids, so we had one on the side of the bed in the dresser, a few in the closet, etc, (No gun safe at the time). We had a baby shower and one of the girl's brought her 8 year old son. She would not watch him, and he went into each of the bedrooms and messed with stuff. I told her to please watch him because our house was not "child proofed", but she wouldn't. I'm glad that you are a responsible parent.

 

[Larry Gude]

Here's the problem...

I am not against guns in private homes. I do want to know that the set up the house has is safe for my kids, considering their age. My sister and her husband do not have kids and are not going to. They own guns and keep them in a way that is uncomfortable for me. I have asked her to secure them when I am there and I never take my eyes off my kids.

as for what happened to me (sorry vrai). Just typical stuff. Alone with a friend's Dad that made me uncomfortable. Finding out years later three of my friends had been molested growing up. By people we knew.

...let's say you decide to have a gun in the house because you think that it is reasonable to have one just in case you need it. Pick your own reasoning, but it has to end in the decision to have a weapon at home. So, for whatever reason that made your mind up, 'it' happens. Is 'it' something that will wait until you can get to your gun if it is in a safe and/or unloaded and/or the ammo kept in another location and/or, like DC, the gun is disassembled?

Look at it another way; You may never need a defibrillator in your home, but if you do, will you be thinking 'thank God I kept it all the way in the back of the closet, padlocked to the wall and un-charged'?

It is ridiculous to have a gun in the home that is useless. If I choose to keep it that way and things don't work out, too bad for me. If society has ordered me to do so then society has violated my rights and that's not fair.

I think we just make or selves less and less responsible and more and more dependant when a lowly handgun is cause for panic.

 

[sanchezf]

...let's say you decide to have a gun in the house because you think that it is reasonable to have one just in case you need it. Pick your own reasoning, but it has to end in the decision to have a weapon at home. So, for whatever reason that made your mind up, 'it' happens. Is 'it' something that will wait until you can get to your gun if it is in a safe and/or unloaded and/or the ammo kept in another location and/or, like DC, the gun is disassembled?

Look at it another way; You may never need a defibrillator in your home, but if you do, will you be thinking 'thank God I kept it all the way in the back of the closet, padlocked to the wall and un-charged'?

It is ridiculous to have a gun in the home that is useless. If I choose to keep it that way and things don't work out, too bad for me. If society has ordered me to do so then society has violated my rights and that's not fair.

I think we just make or selves less and less responsible and more and more dependant when a lowly handgun is cause for panic.

AMEN

 

[desertrat]

Good for you. I say this becuase we have guns with no kids, so we had one on the side of the bed in the dresser, a few in the closet, etc, (No gun safe at the time). We had a baby shower and one of the girl's brought her 8 year old son. She would not watch him, and he went into each of the bedrooms and messed with stuff. I told her to please watch him because our house was not "child proofed", but she wouldn't. I'm glad that you are a responsible parent.

Mine are locked up when I am not home and they would be locked up if anyone came over with kids. Even if just in a room. I remember once I had a black powder pistol which was inoperative and just put out for display. A little visitor took it down and brought it up to me asking if it was ok to play with! His Mom didn't look too happy.

 

[teverheart2002]

Mine are locked up when I am not home and they would be locked up if anyone came over with kids. Even if just in a room. I remember once I had a black powder pistol which was inoperative and just put out for display. A little visitor took it down and brought it up to me asking if it was ok to play with! His Mom didn't look too happy.

We bought a gun safe a few months later. We have friends with an 8-year-old too and he is such a well-behaved kid that he always hung out in the same room with us, so when she brought her kid, we set him up with a tv and movies in a guest bedroom and the little butt went into the other bedroom (our office at the time) and pulled stuff out of boxes and drawers in both of the bedrooms. Pizzed me off bigtime. I think a 3-year-old would have behaved better, he11 my dogs behave better than this kid did. Anyway, I digress, I would say that the parents would not take offense to this question as they probably have some measure of safety in place already if they have kids in their house.

 

[Toxick]

If your child is going to play at a friend's house do you ask the parents if there are any guns in the house and if so are the guns locked up?

Only makes sense...

Then I ask what is their preferred calibur.

Then I ask how tightly the kids can group their shots, and do they mind if we all bust some caps into the lake for fun?

 

[teverheart2002]

Only makes sense...

Then I ask what is their preferred calibur.

Then I ask how tightly the kids can group their shots, and do they mind if we all bust some caps into the lake for fun?