Brenda Brenda:
When you have children, and you leave your guns up for grabs, that is not having to be clairvoyant, that is just fucking common sense.
I was raised with guns and I was told not to touch them. I didn't. My wife was raised with hundreds of guns and a veritable arsenal of other weapons and she and her brother were told not to touch them. And they didn't.
Seems to me the first concern would be parents raising well-behaved and obedient kids who do as they're told instead of being permissive asswipes who blame everyone else in the world for why their kids are such monsters.
Brenda Brenda:
Something that you, when it comes to guns, completely lack. WTF Bart.
You really know nothing about me at all. Thanks for playing.
Brenda Brenda:
You make sure that your kid can never touch your guns without you there. You make sure your guns are NEVER loaded and unlocked at ANY place where your kid can reach it.
Seems you have a problem with trusting your kid(s) to make good decisions if you have to go around securing everything because they'll harm themselves or others if you don't.
Brenda Brenda:
Btw, parents usually are pretty clairvoyant. They know what kids can do. You have to be 5 steps ahead. Holy fuck.
Quite the opposite, in my experience. I've seen no end of parents in my lifetime who will immediately rush to defend their little monster with cries of "He's a good boy!" when the little sh*t commits heinous crimes.
Even my own liberal, Utopian parents were clueless to the things I did as a kid. I could tell them to their faces the things I was doing and they refused to believe it. Frankly, after I was about 16 I stopped lying to them and I told them the
absolute truth about what I was doing every day and they never believed it.
No sh*t, I was gone from the house
two weeks before they realized I was serious that I was joing the Marines.
I see kids among my acquaintances who are drinking, smoking pot, whoring around, and bullying other kids and their parents are utterly and, IMHO,
willfully oblivious to these facts and it is no longer surprising to me.
Then I have my friends and their kids are getting their Eagle Scout badges, being accepted into Ivy League schools on full scholarships, and etc. and then I've been out shooting with plenty of these kids and I have zero doubts about their judgment when they're handling a loaded weapon. ALL of these kids have better discipline at keeping their weapons tight than most police I know.
Bottom line is that if you raise good kids you can put them in a room full of hand grenades from floor to rafters and not worry about them.
You can also trust them out on a date, or to say no when someone hands them a beer or etc. and they're underage.
But if you can't trust your kids then I guess you need to run around the house putting locks on everything. At which point your kid is a lost cause anyway and passing some law that your kid won't care about is an exercise in futility that's just going to cause frustration for the people who know how to raise their kids right in the first place.