> From: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Back in my day, kids who owned/used guns use to tell stories > about how their > dads really got upset with them when they violated a gun > safety rule. Those > stories encapsulated the importance of treating guns with > respect.
My mother tells of how, when she was a girl, my grandfather had a handgun. (This would have been in the 30's.) The gun was in a shoebox on the top shelf of a closet. (And I expect the bullets were in the same shoebox though I'm not sure.) Although my grandfather thought the gun was a total secret, my mother loved to take the gun out and show it to her friends. So I don't think this facination with guns is a new development, entirely. And I don't think people have always been that careful of gun safety. - jmh
