Posted on 07/06/2014 4:52:05 AM PDT by rktman
In May I wrote a post at BearingArms.com that I thought was rather straightforward, discussing some of the responsibilities of gun owners.
When you decide to own a firearm, you are not just exercising a right, but taking upon yourself a responsibility to use that firearm rationally, intelligently, and safely at all times, without exception.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Problem with this article is he thinks about it all wrong. The way to prevent kids from doing something stupid with guns is educations, not locks. Eventually they can always beat locks, or mistakes happen, but if you’ve taught them then they know. I was raised around guns, my wife and her brothers were raised around guns, none of us have ever done anything stupid with a gun, because we were taught.
As for thieves, unless it’s a MASSIVE gun safe they’ll just take the safe and get the guns later (that hold true really for all safes, if they see one they can take they’ll take it and find out what you thought was important at their convenience). You need to secure the HOME, if they can’t get in the home how the guns are stored doesn’t matter.
None of my guns are locked up. They’re all in accessible places around the home and loaded. I’ll shift them if there’s kids coming, idiots just plain aren’t allowed, and they’re supposed to be a risk to criminals.
LOL! They better bring a forklift. And tools to take the wall down too. ;>}
No, no NO.
It's a "larger truth". It's "speaking truth to power". /sarc
Yeh agreed. Sorry but we like our guns out where we can get to them if we need them. When the grandkids come we lock up everything except whats on our person.
This crap is on Townhall? WTF?
A locked gun might as well be 1000 miles away if you are in a life and death situation.
Double combo safe, unloaded with trigger locks and breach blocks. Magazines in the safe deposit box at the bank. Plus no ammo anywhere in the house. Yeah, that makes sense.
Yes.
+1.
Huh? It should be where it's handy.
“Huh? It should be where it’s handy.”
I can’t think of a more handy place than on your person.
“None of my guns are locked up. They’re all in accessible places around the home and loaded. I’ll shift them if there’s kids coming, idiots just plain aren’t allowed, and they’re supposed to be a risk to criminals.”
I guess you haven’t been burglarized. The safest place to have a gun is on your person so it can be at immediate risk for criminals. After that, in a gun safe.
Each gun that is ripped off or worse, used by some kid that found it is just like stroking a check to Michael Bloomberg. It’s a propaganda victory for them.
Shotguns are hard to keep on my person. I just make sure they are close at hand, especially at night.
Safety first, don’t use a gun that may unwittingly kill a neighbor rather than the intruder.
I haven’t been burglarized because I take the step necessary to prevent such a thing. The problem with a locked up gun is it’s useless. On your person has its place, but not terribly helpful when you’re asleep, and can be kind of in the way moving around. Everywhere I spend time around the house has a gun within 2 steps and a reach, been that way for a long time, and zero have been stolen. My FIL followed the same principle from the day he joined the Army Air Corp until his death a few years ago, also zero stolen. And no accidents from his kids either, he raised them better than that, even the two that came out idiots understood guns aren’t toys.
I think the propaganda victory comes in thinking responsible gun ownership involves hiding them away where they “can’t do harm”. They’re tools, treat them as such. They don’t have minds of their own, they aren’t magical, and if all the people in your home understand that you can have loaded guns on every surface and nothing bad will happen. Locking them away takes away opportunities to teach people to respect and understand guns, THAT’S writing a check to Bloomberg by giving him more people that think guns are magical evil. To break the propaganda you need them out and about and not doing harm, not locked away like scary monsters.
“In some states they can have a SWAT team at your door with a call to 1-800-GUN-SNITCH.”
No worries. I’m in Montana, where over 95% of homes have firearms. And the average number of firearms per home that has firearms is TWENTY-SEVEN!
Picked up that little factoid at my concealed carry class. Several of my neighbors have shooting ranges. I built the first ... then they used my plans for their shooting benches.
I hear gunfire almost daily. It is the sound of freedom.
I envy you in Montana even though I live in a relatively gun friendly state here in South Carolina.
You’ve still got that frontier spirit, and we still believe that nothing good has come from Washington since, say, spring 1861.
Gun industries are relocating here, too. And there’s a large veteran population.
I was thinking of states like NY, MA, & NJ where there are state issued FOIDs, which greatly facilitate confiscation & other kinds of police raids.
Even if it were true, so what? Obviously, better if there were none at all, but hundreds is nothing next to the death toll of tyrannical regimes with unarmed subjects, in the 20th century alone. That's in the millions. Tens of millions.
VIDEO: Man Uses 3D Printer To Make Handgun: GUN COMPLETED WITH PARTS ORDERED ONLINE
http://spacecoastdaily.com/2014/07/video-man-uses-3d-printer-to-make-handgun/
Hmmm. May be somebody I know if it happened on the Space Coast. LOL! The verbiage in the article plus the question asking for comments kinda tells me what the response is “supposed” to be. Didn’t see any comments though.
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