siglite
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I conceed that I left out some information, There is a diffrence to me in a person walking by my kids while carring and leaving my kid with a person and a gun for 8 hours a day for school.
What is your school's proximity to any firearms, or anyone who carries? I suppose you would advocate the "gun free school zones?" No guns within 1000 feet of schools. For the chilluns.
Sorry but go hang out at the local range and count the errors in safety in just 8 hours.
I spent ten on the range today (arfcom shoot) and counted zero. And those were arfcommers!
Would you leave your child with a person like that? If they are that careless when it doesnt count how are they going to act in a threat environment?
This sounds a lot like what I've heard referred to as "projection." When a person feels that they wouldn't be safe doing $x $y, or $z, they project their fears onto society as a whole. Of course, it could just be plain old fashioned elitism. There are kids around firearms for greater than 8 hour stretches every single day times a hundred thousand or so. And kids being accidentally shot by unsafe gun-handling is so rare as to be essentially statistically negligible. The numbers are over at CDC. Go have a look.
I am simply saying unless I know you and how you act with a gun I would rather not leave my kid with you.
I suspect you extend this not only to your kids, but society as a whole. I've seen a running theme in your posts that seems elitist. As in, you're the only person you trust with a gun. I find this disturbing. I've seen this attitude before. Rosie O'Donnel and her armed security come to mind. Among others.
We have all heard about the cop that left his gun in the stall of the restroom.
I've heard of people being struck by falling pianos. Just because a thing has happened does not mean that it's common enough to affect YOU or YOUR life. This has happened once that we know of. People are struck by lightning with frightening regularity by comparison. Even children. How do you deal with this probability issue? Children are killed with monotonous regularity in car crashes by comparison. Who will you let drive your child around. Anyone? No one? Just you? Do you require that the road be devoid of those reckless crazies before you go out with your child in the car, lest some irresponsible driver hit and kill them? Far be it from me to tell another man how to raise his children. But exactly how sheltered are these kids? And when you're doing your threat analysis before making decisions about who's allowed to do what by your standards, what threat / risk model are you using?
This will most certianly happen in a school too, then you have children most of which I dare say have little to no exposure to fire arms able to handle a gun.
NO ONE is suggesting that we arm the children.
Its just curousity but that has also lead to many accidental shootings.
Do you really think that a curious teacher will shoot a child just to see what happens? What are you talking about?
Bottom line and again teachers are just like every one else there are idiots in every crowd and an idiot with a gun need not be around my kid.
It sounds very much to me like you do not wish for anyone to be armed. The more I read of your posts, the more you sound like an anti. Denials or no.
Oh my... you mean they'll just let anyone exercise their god-given unalienable right without regard to race, religion, social status, and level of ninjitsu training?! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!Getting a ccw permit in va is easy almost any one can do it. There is no test required(which is fine) but it does not guarentee that a person knows what they are doing with a gun.