Just to throw my 2cp in. I was raised in a single parent home, mother, since
I was 5. There was one gun in the house, a .22 revolver, and I knew where it
was but I also NEVER touched it (honest mom). Seriously though I never
played with it. In fact for some reason my father had a gun that looked like
a german ruger 9mm, but it was like die cast: completely solid. (Now I
wonder where it is, heck it might be upstairs) And that I hardly ever
touched. I never showed it to my friends. I would only touch it myself when
no one was around.
Any way everyone I grew up with had guns but it was only when they were
being 'used' that they were touched. In fact I remember a friend getting
punished by his father for 'playing' with a hunting knife in the house. Then
again that father was an ass.
So you're (whoever was talking about it) not the only one who grew up around
guns but not, um, unaware of what guns were for. I don't remember ever being
told not to touch guns, we just didn't.
On the bad side there were things we did with guns from 13 - 17 that were
positivly foolish. But in case you didn't notice there are things adults do
that are aboslutly foolish. Must be a human thing.
And I'm all for dogs and security systems and the notion that guns should be
properly stored but like somebody else had for a tag line from Heinlein, An
armed society is a polite society.
Kevin Tarr
Trump high, lead low
