LJWebster1
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So my wife takes my 8 year old son to the doctor for his annual checkup, and when they get done, the doctor asks my son if there are any guns in the house. My son of course says yes, given that there are a bunch, and two of them are his. The doctor asks if he ever touches them, and my son says, yeah, of course. The doctor gets this look on his face, and my son follows up with, "but only when my dad is there." The doctor then looks at my wife and says, "even if you teach him abouth them, he's still going to play with them." I told my wife its a darn good thing I didn't take him to this appointment, or that doctor would have gotten an earful. I basically would have asked him why he didn't ask my son if there was a pool in the back yard. When he looked at me puzzled, I'd have told him that according to the National Safety Council, in 2003 there wre 86 deaths of children 0 to 14 from firearms. During the same period, there were 943 drownings. Of course, there were also 2,591 deaths from motor-vehicles. I would have attempted to "educate" this buffoon. And I used to like him too.