I dropped three would be burglars last year by just pointing my finger at them and yelling "bang!". They pointed their fingers back at me but completely missed. You can't hit anything pointing your finger to the sky! Dumbasses!
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I dropped three would be burglars last year by just pointing my finger at them and yelling "bang!". They pointed their fingers back at me but completely missed. You can't hit anything pointing your finger to the sky! Dumbasses!
I have to agree with Gareee with regards to one thing it would ultimately be safer for you to keep a loaded magazine out of the gun and right next to it. Honestly the amount of time it would take you to shove in the magazine and chamber a round relative to just chambering a round is negligible. Ultimately it doesn't really matter what we say here though.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Mike,Quote:
Originally posted by Michael Crawford:
I'm with Nomalas on the need for guns. He's also right about a shotgun - it was the weapon for home defense that I had loaded and ready for years.
However, I have kids of a certain age now that makes the risk equation tip in the other direction. If you're in a house where there are only adults, the risk of them pilfering around in a location where you have a loaded gun, and shooting someone with it, should be fairly low (unless you live with morons). However, once you have kids, that risk really rises, and it outweights the risk of home invasion. The shotgun was replaced with a heavy bat and an alarm system.
Once my kids are old enough, the loaded gun will return though.
I agree with you about having to be more careful when both firearms and children are in the same household. They can, however, safely coexist.
Most parents treat firearms as something that should be hidden away from their children. Once that happens, the firearm becomes something mystical, and the child will seek it out. That's when accidents happen.
When one of my nephews was getting to the "curious" age, I spoke to my brother and sister-in-law about trying an experiment. First, I would show him the gun, in this case, a handgun. I would even let him hold it. While he was holding it, I would explain the rules of safe gun handling. How a gun is ALWAYS loaded, how he should NEVER put his finger on the trigger, etc. I also told him that if he ever found a gun anywhere, he should never touch it or pick it up and should go tell his parents or another adult.
After a few weeks, with my brother's permission, I purposely left an unloaded gun on my bed. It was positioned in a certain way, so I would know if it was moved. When they came over to visit, I wondered how long it would take for him to find it. It didn't take long. Within 5 minutes, he came running up to me to tell me what he found. He didn't touch it at all. I would do this every now and again just to see if the message sank in...and it did. The gun was no longer a mystery to him, so it wasn't something to seek out.
This obviously doesn't work for everyone's situation, but de-mystifying the firearm in the eyes of a child, is a good start to preventing accidents.
....sorry for the long read..... [img]redface.gif[/img]
I'm in your house right now................
You're absolutely right, Nomalas - kids do need to see and know about guns young. I owned my first at 8, and started hunting regularly with my dad at 9.
I have guns in the house, and I think my kids are pretty smart about said safety. But I still prefer to keep them unloaded, simply because the risk is too high for me.
I just dropped 2 rifles off at the local gun shop - trying to sell them on consignment.
If those 2 sell, I'll only be left with........ hmmm....... let me count now......... 21. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Do you really believe that? So you think that one should just keep retreating to a "better part of the world"? Could you tell me were that is...oh, yeah, I remember.....OZ....oh wait, even they had the Witch and her terrorist monkeys. [img]tongue.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by Nomalas:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Spore:
I'm gonna side with your Mom.
Guns are unnecessary. If you really need one for defense I would consider moving to a better part of the world instead. That price tag may get you a flight and immigration papers.
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">All I can say is I don't need one where I live. Must be the lions and tigers and bears... oh, my. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
I'm with Nomalas on the need for guns. He's also right about a shotgun - it was the weapon for home defense that I had loaded and ready for years.
However, I have kids of a certain age now that makes the risk equation tip in the other direction. If you're in a house where there are only adults, the risk of them pilfering around in a location where you have a loaded gun, and shooting someone with it, should be fairly low (unless you live with morons). However, once you have kids, that risk really rises, and it outweights the risk of home invasion. The shotgun was replaced with a heavy bat and an alarm system.
Once my kids are old enough, the loaded gun will return though.
I had no idea so many people on here were armed. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
I recently inherited an old Beretta (m1934) from my deceased grandfather. It's in great condition and I have cleaned it up but I have yet to fire it.
Sorry can't help you with that Daj....I am against the use of weapons....but that's your choice and I have to respect it....