Gun control

[Doubting Thomas]

<sigh...> I don't really know the answer to this. I mean, I remember playing cops and robbers with the neighborhood kids when I was little, and we all pretended we had guns and shot at everything in sight. But they were just our fingers, or some silly toy -- and we did know the difference. In my household, we grew up with loaded guns leaned in out-of-the-way corners. We knew not to touch them -- period.

I did as well, and knew not to play with real guns. I even had a BB gun as a child and knew not to just play with it because you really could shoot someone's eye out.

Unfortunately not everyone teaches their children how to be safe around guns, as evidenced by the stories we read. That's why I think it's imperative that if you're going to have guns in the house with children, you should always lock it in a safe and make sure your kids don't know the combination. I guarantee if you just keep it in your dresser drawer your kids will find it eventually.

I remember when I was a kid and at a neighbor's house, and one of the kids was going through the dresser drawers in his parent's bedroom. He showed us an object he found which turned out to be a dildo. Funny yes, but had it been a gun I'm sure he would have played with it.