If you have a gun, make sure you toddler can't get to it as a plaything. Seems pretty simple. If you don't you should be harshly punished. Seems like the pro gun ppl would support this. I mean, being pro gun doesn't make you pro stupid, and what we are talking about is ppl being very stupid with their guns to the detriment of those who don't know better(toddlers).
Agreed. But we should also prosecute swimming pool drownings, too, right? Over 350 per year, way way more than accidental toddler shooting deaths. http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Water-Safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.html
Is there a diff in leaving a gun on a coffee table or couch and having a pool in a fenced in back yard? Again, gun ppl should want this. They should want to remove reasonable barriers from them having guns and getting bleading hearts out of the way would be a good thing for that cause. Pool contractors I know are all about safety devices. It's an upsell. They want you to have a fence, an automated cover that can hold a person, and a water splash sensor alarm. It makes them money and goes a good distance to keeping their name and industry from being viewed in a bad light. you can separate the gun rights from needing gun responsibility, right?
Yeah, gun shops should really upsell gun locks and cabinets and manufacturers should work on sourcing them and marketing them for added revenue. Sell it as a safety measure. They should also work on developing new locks and cabinets that are smarter, safer, and more quickly accessible by the qualified owner in case of emergency. Maybe they already do, but they should try to stay ahead of the game.
HOWEVER, that's a pretty small number of toddlers killed by guns given the number of guns and idiot parents we have in this country.
Every gun I have ever bought came from the factory with a trigger lock, for free.
That is great and the right thing to do. Side note: I have guns and hunt with a pretty large party of ppl, most of whom have a lot more guns than I do and bring them when we go hunting to show them off and play with them, even if the particular hunting season doesn't call for it. I have personally never encountered a trigger lock outside of a place that sells guns.
Do you use them?
These times you've gone hunting with these folks, were there kids around unattended who had acces to these guns?
I haven't used them because they'd be redundant. But crap's changing with Baby Emo in the house now. Not that I'll use trigger locks, but we're redoing our basement and I got $2k into the budget for safety stuffs.
I don't. I keep my guns at my house and my ammo at my dad's house. So, my kids would have to come up with ammo to do anything other than drop my shotgun on their toe.
As for the others, no, we never have young kids around, but they aren't bringing loose guns either. I mean, they pull them out of the same cases they keep them in at home. None of them have gun safes. In fact, the only person I know that does is one of my employees who deals in antique guns. Gun safes are really expensive unless you are talking about single pistols.
