At 10:21 14-03-01 -0600, Marvin Long wrote:
>So here's my grand flame-bait statement: to assume that firearm safety
>education is sufficient protection for children is to abdicate one's adult
>responsibility and to foist it off upon one's child who cannot really
>understand it. Guns should be locked up. Ammo should be locked up
>separately. The minimum safety standards for gun ownership should
>preclude using a gun for home defense. Gun owners should be licensed and
>sworn to uphold minimum safety standards, and they should be willing to
>have their safety measures inspected periodically to enforce compliance.
>
>More bluntly, if owning a gun is a civic right, then being safe with guns
>is a civic responsibility and should be embraced as such, including
>measures to uphold civic accountability.
Then what method do you recommend that the safety-conscious, law-abiding
homeowner have ready to defend his home and the lives of his family members
from an intruder armed with a potentially lethal weapon (gun, knife,
crowbar, etc.)? Simply asking the intruder to wait until the police have
time to get there is probably not going to work . . .
-- Ronn! :)
