On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 02:17:21 -0400, Tom Gardner
wrote:

On 10/22/2015 1:00 AM, John B. wrote:

One is forced to ask, is there one in the toilet also? Or do you feel
safe relieving yourself without an armory to defend you?
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cheers,

John B.



Statistically, 73% of all home invasions occur when someone is on the
john. So, all bathrooms should have a firearm...in a safe of course.


You mean that you are sitting there on the "throne" and the noise from
someone smashing in a solid front door with proper locks on it doesn't
alert you?

Or that the cheap hollow core front door that you didn't bother to
lock open so easy that you didn't hear it?

I'm in no way opposed to gun ownership but what I read - a 6 year old
kid at home, his parents out, finds a loaded gun and shoots a playmate
- sounds like some thing out of fiction. If you had young kids would
you leave loaded guns laying around all over the house? On top of the
fridge?

Of course, as one individual wrote you may actually need a loaded gun
in the kitchen to protect your 2nd amendment rights? Right?

Now, I can be a bit specific, I never had less then three pistols and
1 shotgun and two rifles in the house, in an unlocked gun cabinet or
gun box the whole time our three kids were growing up and never a
single one of that ever tinkered with any of the guns.

And I don't consider me, or my kids as anything unusual. I was raised
in a family that had, at least in the living generations, always had
guns, and the kids never fooled with them. My eldest grandparent was
born in 1875 and still alive when I was a kid. Had a Fox double barrel
12 gauge set in the corner of the kitchen as far back as I can
remember. How else would you keep the foxes away from the chickens?

So that is a family that dates back for 140 years with guns in the
house and not a single kid shot his playmate.

I have this dreadful feeling that it isn't the guns that are the
problem, it is the people.
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cheers,

John B.