underlining mine.
Seriously, an NRA spokesperson suggests hiding guns in your child’s room? For safety?
The student is so much smarter than the teacher.
In other news, the stock prices of Sturm-Ruger, Smith & Wesson and other manufacturers surged after gun sales shot up in response to talk of stricter gun regulations following the Florida massacre. It’s an increasingly fear-based industry.
Sure, some people value their guns more than their own children. On some level he’s thinking that the kids will protect the guns, not vice versa. And the Second Amendment has become more sacred than whatever the guns are supposed to protect.
As I read it, those were two separate items of guidance: he suggested staging a gun safe in the child’s room, under the theory that this will be your first destination during a hone invasion. He specifically discusses the gun safe being in the child’s room. Hiding guns was not recommended for the child’s room.
I get the idea, but the smaller gun safes usually have a limited number of combinations. Do you really want it where your kid can sit there and play with it at leisure?
Or watch you walk in to access it sometime and catch all or part of the combo?
Even in the very biased article it managed to mention that he was talking about putting a gun safe in the room. Also it was not the NRA or an NRA spokesman. It was one guy who was a guest speaker at a seminar. As anyone who has ever been to a seminar of any type knows, the guest speakers are giving their own viewpoint and not that of the organizers.
Now I think it’s a stupid idea but I like my RO to be accurate.
Or you could have a key. Or a fingerprint safe. Or a kid that isn’t a safecracker.
Another stupid part is keeping the gun in the child’s room so you can be armed against an intruder and protect your child.
So with an intruder in the house, you’re leaving your bedroom unarmed?
Yes, because the thing you’ll do upon entering your child’s room is fiddle around with a gun safe for a few minutes. You know, since it will be such a safe that it’s complex enough a child can’t unlock it easily but you can swiftly and safely gain access in mere seconds, despite the adrenaline rush giving your fingers the shakes and causing you to overcompensate. And since that’ll be more important than dealing with a now very likely frightened child liable to run off into harm’s way or get in your way due to panic.
Makes sense to me!
I’m not an anti-gun nut but that’s a stupid and irresponsible suggestion.
Even the student was smart enough to realize the stupidity of the “speaker,” and questioned it. The speaker said “hidden” was sufficient. NRA fosters this type of stupidity. I would really expect you, with your experience with firearms, would agree that the further you keep guns from a child, the safer EVERYONE is.
And this speaker was a gun/protection specialist. Fucking idiot never heard of a big, well trained dog sleeping in a child’s room. Best protection available.
Nope. Better would be a big, well trained dog WITH A GUN.
Or a dog with bees in its mouth and when it barks it shoots bees at you!
Even better than that, a Landshark with a frikkin’ laser on it’s head.
Can there be any doubt, any more, that the NRA is not a gun-rights organization but a gun-industry lobby?
I hate those. Every time they see a squirrel in the yard you suddenly have a living room full of bees. It’s a right nuisance.
Why can’t it be both?
I prefer a dog made of bees and when it barks it shoots bee shaped bullets at you (in .45 . . . of course, like God intended).
CMC fnord!
Nope. It’s quite transparently the case that the NRA is an arm of the industry. The only thing that would change that, and change the stranglehold the NRA/industry has on American politics, is to make the gun industry less wildly, orgasmically profitable.
There cannot be too much discussion on the topic of taking away the special protected status that has been gifted to the gun industry by the US Congress. It needs to happen.
On the topic of keeping guns in children’s rooms: it makes me wonder if there’s some long-range plan to make guns cuddly-wuddly Friends in the minds of children–I’m thinking of the way the tobacco industry consciously and deliberately courted children’s attention and emotions with creations like Joe Camel. Gotta win the hearts and minds of those future customers early! (Already, I know, the industry sponsors Youth Marksmanship events and such–same basic idea.)
As is a large portion of the Republican party.