{"id":2719,"date":"2023-12-25T11:51:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T11:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2023-12-25T11:51:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T11:51:56","slug":"harassing-your-friends-and-relatives-about-safe-gun-storage-wont-keep-your-kids-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2719","title":{"rendered":"Harassing Your Friends and Relatives About Safe Gun Storage Won&#8217;t Keep Your Kids Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angry-woman-cartoon-pointing-feat.jpg\" data-caption=\"Shutterstock\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angry-woman-cartoon-pointing-feat-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angry-woman-cartoon-pointing-feat-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angry-woman-cartoon-pointing-feat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angry-woman-cartoon-pointing-feat-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angry-woman-cartoon-pointing-feat-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angry-woman-cartoon-pointing-feat-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angry-woman-cartoon-pointing-feat-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angry-woman-cartoon-pointing-feat-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angry-woman-cartoon-pointing-feat.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Angry woman cartoon pointing feat\" title=\"Angry woman cartoon pointing feat\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The big gun control grifting operations are out in force in the run-up to the holidays on social media. The big thing they want to frighten people with this time? Visiting family and friends for the holidays. Even on some of the best days of the year, these people think we should be extra afraid (and, more importantly, we should be donating money), but they\u2019re working hard to instill some extra paranoia for the most wonderful time of the year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-544017\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"773\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450.png 864w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-567x700.png 567w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-768x948.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-150x185.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-300x370.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-324x400.png 324w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-696x859.png 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-340x420.png 340w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-560x691.png 560w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-544017\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450.png 864w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-567x700.png 567w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-768x948.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-150x185.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-300x370.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-324x400.png 324w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-696x859.png 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-340x420.png 340w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231223-161450-560x691.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>In fact, they think we should be afraid of guns enough that we should start hassling the friends and family we\u2019re visiting about their guns. Are all of their firearms in safes? Are there trigger locks on all of them? Is the ammunition stored separately? Is the safe behind a locked door, inside of a safe inside of another safe like a Russian nesting doll of safes?<\/p>\n<p>After all, even one gun that isn\u2019t rendered at least 30 separate steps from being operable is a deadly threat to The Children\u2122. And a child, by the way, is anyone under the age of Joe Biden. Also, it\u2019s better to be extra safe and store your ammunition on another continent.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know that\u2019s something of an exaggeration, but what they\u2019re really advocating for here makes guns virtually useless for personal defense. But the bigger problem is that their approach can give parents a false sense of security. Even if you do as they say and bother everyone whose house you visit, there\u2019s still a chance that your kids could come across an unsecured gun.<\/p>\n<p>There are several ways that could still happen. The obvious one is that someone would just tell the anti-gun twatwaffle wine aunt who\u2019s hassling them what they want to hear just to shut her up. But even honest people who genuinely want to please Aunt Karen might still have a gun laying around.<\/p>\n<p>Some people have old stuff lying around not knowing what may be inside. It\u2019s not that far-fetched. It\u2019s even happened <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/father-dead-2-children-injured-after-antique-grenade\/story?id=99506598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with live grenades<\/a>. Maybe grandpa passed away a while back and grandma couldn\u2019t bear to go through his things yet. That Luger he brought home from the Big One may still be in his closet, loaded. Or, somebody\u2019s teenage son joined a gang without his parents knowing and is hiding a pistol under his mattress.<\/p>\n<p>Bothering your relatives wouldn\u2019t catch any of that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The reason harassing your relatives, passing more gun control laws, and other such measures don\u2019t work is that you can never really hand off your personal responsibilities to other people. As a parent, it\u2019s <em>my<\/em> job to keep my kids safe. It\u2019s not my parents\u2019 job. It\u2019s not my grandparents\u2019 job. It\u2019s not Aunt Karen\u2019s job. Sure, I can try to pawn my responsibility for my kids\u2019 safety other people, but at the end of the day the buck stops with me as a parent.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of demanding that the whole world change to absolve me of my parental responsibilities, I choose to educate my kids. In the event they come across an unattended firearm, they know what to do instead of being left to do whatever comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>When my kids were really small, they were taught the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ho36vonT3Rw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eddie Eagle<\/a> way. Yes, those cartoons are pretty awful, but for small children being trained to not touch it, back away, and tell an adult about a gun\u2026it works. It\u2019s the age-appropriate way to get the message across so your kids know how to handle the situation.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Ho36vonT3Rw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Learn Gun Safety with Eddie Eagle and the Wing Team\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ho36vonT3Rw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For older kids, more training is appropriate. Every parent needs to make that call depending on their own feelings, the maturity level of the kid (which doesn\u2019t always track with age), and other factors. But as they become teenagers, they can almost always learn the basics, including knowing how to clear a weapon and make it safe, what some of the relevant laws are, and how to contact parents or the police themselves should they come across one in a place where they might get in trouble for having it.<\/p>\n<p>However you choose to approach it, training your kids in gun safety <em>actually<\/em> protects them. It doesn\u2019t depend on anybody else doing \u201cthe right thing\u201d in order to ensure your kids stay safe. It doesn\u2019t depend on criminals being responsible. It doesn\u2019t depend on anything but your kid doing the right thing at the right time and that\u2019s something you have a reasonable amount of control over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/harassing-your-friends-and-relatives-about-safe-gun-storage-wont-keep-your-kids-safe\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shutterstock The big gun control grifting operations are out in force in the run-up to the holidays on social media. The big thing they want to frighten people with this time? Visiting family and friends for the holidays. 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