In hindsight it’s a small miracle neither I, my siblings, or my cousins ever got ourselves or someone else hurt with the guns that were casually left out at my grandparents’ house. It was drilled into me to never touch them without someone watching me first, but what if I’d just not given a fuck, you know? I can’t imagine doing the same with a kid today. Different times.
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not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lastly, secure your firearms you uncultured swines that don’t.
Not only for your safety, but the safety of your children if you have some. I hate that people don’t follow this rule.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
also the safety of the children and general community what live around you (if they enter into your calculations). when i was growing up, the neighbor was a professor at the prestigious university down the way. they thought it was enough to teach their kid gun safety and store the gun in a safe place in their room and for their house it was. problem was some dipshit who wanted to roll with the norteños across the way. broke into the professor’s place, took their gun, shot at some other dipshits and was fortunately a terrible shot. ditched the gun, the police recovered it and brought it back. fortunately we were already paying our bribes so when they came around asking and i told them i didn’t know, they believed me (they knew my tells already when i lied: we played poker for halloween candy thursdays after
karatebribe practice and i suuuucked at poker😘)
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Saw an article recently about this 10 year old who shot his dad in the head while the dad slept next to the mother. Kid found the key to the gun storage when searching for the Nintendo Switch his dad took away from him, and he was angry at the dad, found the gun… Now he has no dad. Mom woke up to a loud bang and the sound of liquid pouring on the floor.
Devastating read. Really tragic.
muxika@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s horrible! That’s why I went for a safe with a fingerprint reader. Easier access for me and harder access for the kids.
Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the way. Store your ammo separately too.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Where I grew up you had to store weapons in two distinct places, like part of the firing mechanism in one.
But I’m not usanian so I don’t need to dream about grabbing a GUN and fight off The Bad Guys. I don’t even have a firearm.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Does that come with a backup generator in case they cut off electricity?
muxika@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t need backup power. It’s just a small gun safe for a pistol.