I have to say I am slightly offended be you comments. Do you think I am throwing the kids a couple of loaded six guns and seeing who's the faster draw. All I am saying is most of us survived in a household with loaded firearms our entire lives and was asking the question what has changed. Furthermore I know my children, I have been their parent long enough to know what sinks in and what doesn't. If you had different experiences with your children "testing the world around" then maybe you don't understand as their parent I CONTROL THE WORLD AROUND THEM. They are 2&3 and I consider it my most important responsiblity to maintain this control of their surroundings and teach them to make the right decisions even at this early age. I do thank you for the prayers.I'm 60 years old and this was not smart even in the fifties!
As a young father you haven't been parenting long enough to realize youngsters this age are constantly testing the world around them, regardles what you think you have taught them.
I pray yours don't become one of these statistics.
Just an FYI, there are more guns now.
So, do everything in your power to seperate those weapons from those children so they don't find themselves alone with them.They are 2&3 and I consider it my most important responsiblity to maintain this control of their surroundings and teach them to make the right decisions even at this early age. I do thank you for the prayers.
my children are not walking around the house with a "weapon" at arms reach to play cowboys and indians with. I managed to survive my youth in a house with firearms simply because I was taught responsibility. Responsibility is not taught once a month at the local range but everytime my kids see a gun which is daily.How many of these kids out there are taught the "every gun is loaded" rule . You can't keep these types of things hide and not discussed until a predetermined aged. It starts early and should be refreshed as often as possible. The point I am trying to convey is that Your way of think has the potential of doing way more harm than goodSo, do everything in your power to seperate those weapons from those children so they don't find themselves alone with them.
They are too young at 2 and 3 years old to trust them to always make the right decisions.
Just sayin'.
I managed to survive my youth in a house with firearms simply because I was taught responsibility.
There are anumber of reasons, but if my memory serves me right, there are either more incidents, or more REPORTED incidents, under dem. pres..... I remember, Carter, Clinton, and now bho .....I live in the Indianapolis area and there have been a disturbing amount of child/gun related incidents( accidental or not). I am 30 yrs old and can't remember anything like this in my days, so I asked my Father in his 50's. He can't either, so I moved on to Gramps( approaching his 80's). Still nothing. So the question I bring to the table is "Why now?". I know there are not more guns, could it be simply media coverage, or it is that gun fear has driven common sense out of teaching kids about firearms? I (as I am sure most of you) grew up in a house with atleast 1 firearm not locked away in a child proof safe with the ammo secured in an underground lockbox buried in the backyard. I have been around firearms my entire life, the absolute first thing I do when I pick one up is check the chamber that has been beat in my head since day 1. Is this not been taught anymore or are ppl waiting to long to educate their kids. Mine are 2 and 3 and they know what is off limits in mommy and daddy's room. There is a loaded 45 and 12GA around the bed at all times and my kids understand they are not allowed in those areas and do not touch. My 3 yr can tell you gun safety 101. My theory is Gun Paranoia is causing more gun incidents. I would love to hear you guys' opinion and thoughts.
All I am saying is most of us survived in a household with loaded firearms our entire lives and was asking the question what has changed.
Are there really more incidents, or does it seem like more?
My guess (and yes, this is only a guess), is that they make the news more often, but the actual per capital rate is very similar to years past.
Number one, the main stream media loves a juicy gun story. Helps them keep up their raitings - bastards. Number two, I taught my kids, while they were growing up, to shoot about everything I had. By the time they hit their teen years, they didn't give a rats ass about going to the range with the ol' man anymore. I did not need the company, I did it to make them so familiar(and sick of) guns and shooting, that I know I could have left a loaded gun on the table, and felt relatively safe that they would not blow their toes off with it. HE HE. Don't tell them that though.I live in the Indianapolis area and there have been a disturbing amount of child/gun related incidents( accidental or not). I am 30 yrs old and can't remember anything like this in my days, so I asked my Father in his 50's. He can't either, so I moved on to Gramps( approaching his 80's). Still nothing. So the question I bring to the table is "Why now?". I know there are not more guns, could it be simply media coverage, or it is that gun fear has driven common sense out of teaching kids about firearms? I (as I am sure most of you) grew up in a house with atleast 1 firearm not locked away in a child proof safe with the ammo secured in an underground lockbox buried in the backyard. I have been around firearms my entire life, the absolute first thing I do when I pick one up is check the chamber that has been beat in my head since day 1. Is this not been taught anymore or are ppl waiting to long to educate their kids. Mine are 2 and 3 and they know what is off limits in mommy and daddy's room. There is a loaded 45 and 12GA around the bed at all times and my kids understand they are not allowed in those areas and do not touch. My 3 yr can tell you gun safety 101. My theory is Gun Paranoia is causing more gun incidents. I would love to hear you guys' opinion and thoughts.