Is there some way that we can Freep the Ad Council on this?

You bring up an interesting subject. Have you ever noticed that almost all of the public service announcements you hear on the radio are left leaning? The ad council is usually cited in the ad credits. Most PSA have just turned into liberal propaganda. How can they be considered public service when they ignore or deny the political preferences of most of the people in the "red zone"?

And just what is exactly wrong with securing a firearm in a house with children and teens?

"And just what is exactly wrong with securing a firearm in a house with children and teens?"

Because it always prescribes "lock up your gun and ammunition separately" (i.e. self-defense is bad). The ads are NOT even-handed and go into all modes of safe storage, INCLUDING those that allow self-defense. This propaganda is just laying the groundwork for later LAWS that will REQUIRE anyone with a gun to store it according to the "prescription". Frankly, if a gun-owner wants to teach his children gun safety and NOT lock'em up, that is OK by me.

A locked and unloaded gun could be the death of your family... Please teach your children proper gun use.

Ad Councils's plan for safe storage:

1. Get bag of Readi-Mix concrete and plastic bucket
2. Mix concrete with water in wheel barrow
3. Pour two inches of concrete mix in plastic bucket
4. Place unloaded handgun wrapped in ziploc bag in bucket
5. Fill bucket with remainder of concrete
6. Let the concrete cure and then store with cold chisel and hammer in case of emergency.

There's drug education to educate youths about the consequences of drug use.

There's sex education to educate youths about the consequences of sex.

Why not gun education to educate youths about the consequences of undisciplined behavior with guns? As long as the campaign does not carry an anti-gun message, I think I would actually support it. I've taken it upon myself to educate my kids in shooting, and we have fun doing it together. I wish all kids had the chance; they don't because THEIR PARENTS FEAR GUNS BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING about them except political propaganda & Hollywood.

My expensive guns are locked up in bank boxes--I live in the People's Republic of California, which regards burglary as an offense slightly more serious than spitting on the sidewalk--but all the center fire pistols I keep at home are loaded at all times.

"And just what is exactly wrong with securing a firearm in a house with children and teens?"

Everything. If your dog and you hear a prowler at the window like we did and the police don't get there for 40 minutes as happened to us, you don't want to be playing around trying to remember some combination lock.

"Securing" firearms? Anyone ever heard of any leftist group advocating locking up your Zippo, your matches, your Drano, or your booze just because you have children or teenagers who might get hurt with them? This isn't about "child safety" at all; it's about demonizing guns, dummy!

Scandals of antigun politicians and activists

"Ad Councils's plan for safe storage:"

"1. Get bag of Readi-Mix concrete and plastic bucket."

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LOL!!!!!

Ad Councils's plan for safe storage:

5a - Store bucket at the bottom of the nearest river.

And just what is exactly wrong with securing a firearm in a house with children and teens?

Try following the link and some of the links on that site. Look at "First Monday" gatherings, look to see where this site leads, then come back and ask me that question. Fair enough?

Gun locks are immoral

I keep my Sig P226 unlocked and loaded all the time. My shotgun and two rifles are unloaded but the ammunition is beside them in the closet. My kids know where they are as well as how to load and fire them. I have taken my kids shooting with me for twelve years now and have taught them how to handle firearms safely and responsibley. I beleive thats all the gun control we need.

Why don't you ask that family whose daughter was murdered by a lunatic with a pitch fork? They had guns, the older children knew how to handle them properly, but they were locked up and "safe".

A gun is an emergency device, much like a fire extinguisher, when you need it, you need it NOW.

In college dormitories it is common for the kids to take the fire extinguishers and use them for pranks and every once in a while you here some idiot suggest that they take them out or lock them up. Thankfully, smarter people usually see the fallacy of that. But for some reason, they cannot see that a gun locked in a safe is about as useful as fire extinguisher in the same place.

Why not gun education to educate youths about the consequences of undisciplined behavior with guns? As long as the campaign does not carry an anti-gun message, I think I would actually support it. I've taken it upon myself to educate my kids in shooting, and we have fun doing it together. I wish all kids had the chance; they don't because THEIR PARENTS FEAR GUNS BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING about them except political propaganda & Hollywood.

Rings true.

There is nothing wrong with education. In fact, I think that *readily accessible* gun safes are a good idea. However, the theory of this group is that guns and ammunition should be locked up and stored separately thus making guns useless for self defense. BTW, some of the educational ads (which appeared on on TV Land) have even attacked gun safes. One of them shows a teenager figuring out the combination and ends with the teenager having a gun in his hands.

These commercials also dramatically overstate the number of accidential gun deaths for children (a few hundred per year and very few of these under ten) and completely neglect to point out the *hundreds of thousands* of successful use of guns for self-defense every year.

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