Posted on 04/10/2009 3:03:14 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
Stephen and Robbie are typical 11-year-olds who became fast friends after meeting at their local Boys and Girls club in Amelia, Ohio. They discovered a similar love of video games and shooting hoops, so it wasn't a surprise when they asked to start visiting one another's homes for playdates.
But after months of visits, it did come as a surprise to Stephen's mom, Carol, that Robbie's dad, Jan, kept handguns in his home for protection. The families asked that their last names not be used to protect their privacy.
"Stephen's been going to Jan's house to play with Robbie, and I had no idea Jan even had guns," Carol admitted. "It just never came up as a conversation."
"Nearly 1.7 million children live in homes with firearms that are loaded and unlocked, and every day eight children die from guns," he said. "These statistics are unacceptable. Parents can help make their children safer. All they have to do is ask. Parents ask all sorts of questions to protect their children when they go play at the home of a friend, neighbor or relative. But there is one important question that more than half of parents say it never even occurred to them to ask: Is there a gun where my child plays?"
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
98% of statistics are made up “on the fly”.”
--I probably wouldn't let a kid go to a house without guns---
Define children. I've seen some definitions up to ages in their 20s. The same stories where we post and give high fives to each other for some scumbag robber ending up with lead rather than money, these people will chalk up as "another tragic death of a child killed by an gun". They probably even count some tragic military training accidents as children dying from guns in their definition.
Regurgitation of all things from Clintonista era BS !
Who says we can’t go back in time !......LOL !
Drunk presstitues have killed more people than the guns in my home town.
Doom on these idiots.......
Yet another example of the State Run Media and its controllers doing their best to undermine yet another area of American life and lifestyle. Gun ownership is one of their favorite targets and psychological warfare is one of their favorite methods.
My wife and I won’t let our children spend the night at their friend’s houses UNLESS their parents have and know now to use guns.
I always ask about guns in the house before my kids go over. I still let them go, but I would feel a lot better if the parents cared about their kids enough to keep weapons in the house for their defense. ;)
They are simply throwing monkey poop. Their agenda is to disarm Americans. It has nothing to do with safety or firearm safety would be taught as part of Physical Education Class, just like it was in many of the Western States in the Sixties. Somehow, revisionists seem to not equate safety and knowledge...
Has your daddy or mommy taught you gun safety?
Well, it’s a man named Jan.
"Sure, send Bobby right on over. Glad to teach the little nipper how to field-strip a .45. Consider it a life skill."
We like dopping off and picking up our kids at their friend’s homes.
Gives us daddys a chance to check out each other’s gun lockers.
Sheesh, I would have never been able to go play with any of my friends if my parents had this idiotic rule. Of course, we had firearms in the house as well, and I was taught to respect them and handle them correctly.
ABC’s other story about “kids” finding guns and playing with them actually involved college-aged adults.
When I first read that...I thought it said “Drunk Prostitutes...lol
Whew, I was thinking that must be quite some town.
I wouldn't want my grandkids staying anyplace that wasn't appropriately armed.
/johnny
"Daniel Gross, the CEO and co-founder of PAX, the nation's largest nonpartisan gun violence prevention organization, said that 40 percent of homes with children have a gun."
I was doing a MapQuest lookup when I re-read your post. There goes another plan....
/johnny
Beats the hell out of chinese condoms...
Pull my finger, and I’ll issue statistics like that.
A: Why do you ask? Will your children be going through my closets and drawers?
A Freeper greater than I came up with that one! :-)
And gang bangers shooting each other.
Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other.
When it comes to sex its “Gonna happen, better show them how.”, but when it comes to guns its “Hide it from them. Don’t expose them. Don’t teach them how to handle a gun safely.”
There was a set of figures in this magazine that said in the last decade accidental shootings were down 40% and accidental shootings involving children were down 60%. This is despite the increasing number of homes that have weapons.
Where I grew up the only people around who did not have guns were in the cemetery and I ain’t too sure about all of them.
I messed with one of my friends. She was breaking her arm patting herself on the back because she asked her little girls’ friends if they had any guns in the house before she would let little Precious go over to play. She was so smug and so self-righteous about it, I had to ask her if she asked that question each time her kiddie went over to play. Even if she got a negative answer last week, suppose the family had bought a gun JUST THAT DAY! Little Precious would be IN DANGER if she went to that house!
He jaw dropped and fear filled her eyes.
I imagine she became a big pest in the neighborhood.
I’m probably gonna fry for that one.
“Pull my finger”
Once a flatulent leper said that to me.
I didn’t think I could pull it off!
No problem here.
If you’re an 0bama supporter send your whole damned leftist family over to play with my guns, please!
Well they're your statistics. Give better ones in future
Did anyone else see the outrageous edition of 20/20 on ABC Friday night, 4/10, on guns?
Diane Sawyer prefaced it by saying the show was not anti-gun or anything like that (sure) but the result was appalling — people supposedly trained in gun use repeatedly failed to operate them correctly in staged crisis situations, and kids were viewed playing with guns, etc. The obvious goal here was to scare everyone away from gun ownership, and I found the show revolting!
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