Posted on 10/10/2006 6:53:41 PM PDT by keepthefaith
(me being a pacificist for the day) works well also. A huge "Hooray" for this young boy!
If you count the rifle my husband's grandmother gave him many moons ago, I could answer YES. I doubt if he ever used it and I surely haven't.
Obviously gun owners have to learn how to shoot their guns.
On the subject, I pass on this anecdote: One of my brothers gave our mother a Saturday Night Special when she was in her 60s or 70s. It was registered in the name of whoever gave/sold it to my brother, and eventually this guy asked my bro. to return it.
Mom, now in her 80s and crippled with rheumatoid arthritis, refused to let go of it. She told my brother it was in her safe deposit box. It was not; I had joint access to that box, and besides, I also knew where she kept the gun.
After our mother died at the age of 87, I gave my brother the gun.
This is exactly why "safe storage" gun laws are a terrible idea. The safest storage is that which makes a home defense firearm most readily available in an emergency like this.
The police probably took the gun as "evidence" and now they're defenseless if the accomplice returns now or in the future to avenge his dead buddie.
I hope they have another gun or can get one.
My thoughts, exactly!
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