Gun Safety
SHIT !
Now there will be howls of outrage & disgust at our (Minnesota’s) CCP laws. Not at the dumbass who would hide a gun within reach of small kids - It’s clearly the NRA’s fault. Some of MN’s CCP detractors claimed there would be “blood in the streets”, “people shooting people with no discretion”. Now thanks to this “intellectual giant”, we’ll be hearing how several years of gun ownership/personal protection & firearm safety have failed miserably.
Cap’n lesson #5 is looking pretty good right about now.
Rule 1: NEVER leave a loaded weapon (or any weapon) where a little kid can find it. (or an unstable spouse, girlfriend, drunken uncle, etc, for that matter).
Rule 2: ALWAYS consider a firearm to be loaded untill you can prove otherwise.
Rule 3: Firearms and booze / drugs, etc don’t mix. Do your shooting, put the toys away then break out the
or 
afterwards.
Guns don’t kill people. Stupid people kill people. :rulez:
OCM already made my point. Deliberate???
You ought to see the conditions kids live in, with some of our local meth houses.
Posted by Oink
03/14/2006 at 01:44 PM
The Lefties are correct. It’s obviously the gun’s fault.
If Meth wasn’t illegal there would be no meth labs. No Columbian drug cartel. No drug millionaires for ghetto kids to idolize. Just junkies. You don’t see Al Capone’s Gang shooting up Chicago today.
Posted by Oink
03/14/2006 at 02:58 PM
Getting back on topic(you do remember the topic right)My late father kept a loaded revolver in his nightstand drawer.
When my brother and I each reached maybe 5-I’m 8 years older-, my father took the weapon out, unloaded it in our presence, let us look at it safely and in the end took the “curiousity” out of it for us.
We knew it was there and we had seen it.
Done.
We also knew that if my father even suspected that we had been NEAR that drawer-the gun would be the LEAST of our troubles!
We weren’t allowed to point our toys guns at animals or people either. You only point it at a living creature if you’re prepared to kill them.(water guns were the obvious exception).
Becuase of the way I was brought up around guns, even my gun-grabber doctor-a wonderful guy otherwise-says that while he believes that no one outside of the police and the military needs a gun,he’d trust ME with one.
My father was a mean jerk who died of crohns disease 4 1/2 years ago.
Neither my brother nor I have ever shot anything more than a target at a range.
THAT, ladies and gentlemen is how you teach a child.Posted by Annoying Little Twerp
03/14/2006 at 09:33 PM
Btw-Alex is a Boy Scout(Alex is my 6th grade son for all you newbies)and he has an uncle who’s a (choke) hunter and a step-uncle who has maybe 60 antique rifles that can still be fired. The rule concerning “toy” guns has always applied to him as well.
I feel comfortable knowing that he’ll be smart with guns when he’s an adult.Posted by Annoying Little Twerp
03/14/2006 at 09:39 PM
I’m surprised the Mainstream Media hasn’t made any Dick Cheney references (yet).
