Gun Article in Parenting Magazine

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There is an article in the May 2004 issue of Parenting magazine giving advice on how to keep kids safe in a home with guns. Naturally, it is written by a mom who does NOT own a gun or have any in the house. It goes on to say the Eddie Eagle program is NOT effective and even has a sidebar at the end of the article with an interview with a MMM member who bables on that everyone should call their reps. to support the AWB among other BS gun control laws. Feel free to let them know how you feel on the matter. www.parenting.com

I was sure to let them know I am cancelling my subscription and suggest you do, too, even though you may not be a subscriber just to get a point across. I also let them know that it seemed very unfair to include an interview of a MMM member and not a Second Amendment Sister.
 
I was sure to let them know I am cancelling my subscription and suggest you do, too, even though you may not be a subscriber just to get a point across.
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So we should lie? Isn't that what leftists do? :scrutiny:

Chris
 
They obviously don't give a rats arse about scientifically proven or disproven "facts" and studies or common sense. They have made it abundently clear they only understand one language. If you don't want to say you are cancelling a non-exsistent subscription then say that you disprove of the unfair article. You DO disprove, don't you?:confused:
 
I thought it was an okay article. It said that a study showed that the eddie eagle program was a good start, but that in real life, little kids still picked up and played with guns. Maybe that's true, but it didn't go into detail about how long the kids were trained, how intensely, etc.

It DID say to go a few steps further, to actually test your child with an UNLOADED/SAFED real gun, or real looking gun. Never did it say to not keep any guns in the home. Also it gave much more space to a pro gun person who stressed education over keeping guns taboo. All good advice, IMO.

Some quotes:
Role play with an unloaded gun or realistic toy gun
Test (the child) once you're confident she understands what to do if she finds a gun.
Take the mystery out of guns by showing them to your child, if he expresses intrest.

These are from Todd Smith, editor of Outdoor Life magazine, who got a lot of column space.

On the down side, it does recommend the usual- unloaded and in a gun safe, seperate from the ammo, etc. And there is a seperate blurb from the founder of the MMM, but all she talks about is the assault weapons ban, so it seems kinda silly, and not in tone with the article.

Of course, I'd cancel my subscription just because I hate parenting magazines, but I thought this article was pretty balanced, and it definitely gave me the idea to actually test my kids with the whole stop, don't touch- tell an adult thing.

-James
 
The part that really got me was the sidebar interview with the MMM member and her one-sided views WITHOUT retort from, say, the Second Amendment Sisters. This is where the lies are spewed. There was NO MENTION of the fact that laws like the AWB have been scientifically proven NOT to deter crime. Also, what the heck does the AWB have to do with child gun safety, anyway??? IMHO, the article was just a lead-in to the anti remarks and BS of the MMM interview. The real agenda here was a dig on gun owners and to push anti-gun garbage.
 
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