“Rather than try over and over again to gun-proof our kids, I think we ought to child-proof our guns."
I'm for the suspenders-
and-a-belt theory, myself.
As well as gun-proofing our kids, we ought to child-proof the guns.
As well as child-proofing our guns, we ought to gun-proof our children.
That's why I wear my gun on my hip at home, instead of stashing a loaded weapon somewhere in the house. If it were accessible enough for me to use in an emergency, it would be too accessible to the little darlings. If it weren't accessible to them, it wouldn't be much use to me. If it ain't under my conscious control, it is locked up.
But the kids all know that if I goof and leave a gun lying around, they don't touch it and they
do come tell me about it, soonest.
Seems to me that only a damfool would completely and solely trust
either a small child's obedience and maturity,
or any child-proofing scheme which relies on imperfect humans and breakable mechanisms.
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