Kids in the home and curious, SURE THING.
Laws Imposing Criminal Liability when a Child Gains Access as a Result of Negligent Storage of a Firearm: Fourteen states and the District of Columbia, have laws that impose criminal liability on persons who negligently store firearms, where minors could or do gain access to the firearm. Typically, these laws apply whenever the person “knows or reasonably should know” that a child is likely to gain access to the firearm.
I suppose a lot of this is an "age/era" thing.The prospect of leaving loaded firearms unsecured and easily accessible when we are at work, kids are at school etc just does not seem the be wise.
Absolutely not so. Anybody with any training in child and adolescent behavior knows that this just doesn't hold water. Yes, there are the occasional kids that can be trusted like this but most kid's minds just don't work they way.
WOW!
And to think I have raised 5 kids over the past 25 years and have NEVER had a problem with them messing around with firearms. CRAZY.
It seems these days, kids are not to be trusted with anything, or even educated, in anything other than what the "party" thinks they should be. Todd forbid, they learn to think for themselves.
My parents allowed it, but encouraged it, as did we. Its the main reason I believe we never had any issues. Basically, contestant training from birth.Our parents knew it was irresponsible to let us handle firearms at an early age, and this has not changed one whit.
Most of us did not get a gun of our own until we were ten or twelve years old, some later, some earlier.
I'll bet not one single person on this forum was allowed unfettered access to a loaded firearm when they were of Kindergarten age.
This topic comes up from time to time in several gun forums that I read. There are always a few parents who think their kids are so well behaved and so well trained that loaded guns can be left where the kids have access. Hogwash! If kids are around, LOCK UP YOUR GUNS.
No child always obeys. They will misbehave. I misbehaved, and so did you. My dad trained me very thoroughly, but there were occasions when I played with his guns when no adults were around. Guns are so fascinating that kids are drawn to them. You don't need a college degree in child psychology to understand this; you just need to understand human nature. If kids are around, LOCK UP YOUR GUNS.
Your childhood .... I'm glad it was not mine.
You lost that bet already: I never saw a gun safe growing up, and trigger locks were unknown. Grandpa kept most all his guns behind the door to the stairs ( and I know the .22 was always loaded), and Dad's were on a gunrack over his bed .... a very few people had actual "gun cabinets", usually made as a high school wood shop project - all of them had glass fronts (and sometimes sides) and NONE of them locked..... I rode around in pickups with multitple guns in racks in the rear window or above the sunvisors (the "Outa-Site" gun rack) .... guns and ammunition were freely accessible to my siblings and me from the time we could crawl ..... but we knew not to touch them, as surely as we knew not to touch the stove in winter. Doing so would result in some immediate pain .... but I'm sure modern progressive society would consider that abuse, as well.