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Keeping a gun in your home may make you feel safe, but the truth is you are three times more likely to have a homicide occur there as a result of its presence. Take the necessary precautions to store the weapon safely and minimize your risk.
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Comments
emclean said
on 6/3/2008 "Keeping a gun in your home may make you feel safe, but the truth is you are three times more likely to have a homicide occur there as a result of its presence."
A gun is a tool, and as such will only do what a human picks it and makes it do. A gun will not cause a homicide, a person will.
You are four times more likely to die by transport accident than by homicide by gun, are you going to stop driving now?
"Hide your keys to the gun cabinet and/or trigger lock in a different spot from where you keep your house keys."
Don’t hide the keys, the kids will find them. Put them on the ring with your car keys. When you are home, know what your kids are doing.
STEP 10) Gun proof your children. Let them know that if they ask, you will allow them to handle the firearms, then follow through. Children are curious, they will want to see anything that you tell them is only for grown up’
brazthemad said
on 7/31/2007 In response to JoJo, they are still bullets inside the cartridge. Moreover, if you have a revolver you don't have any cartridge at all. Don't call people out on nomenclature if you haven't fully considered what they're talking about.
JoJo said
on 1/1/2007 I guess this article was written by some California lib as he/she obviously doesn't understand firearms very well. "Store your bullets in a separate place than your gun?" First of all, they are not bullets, they are cartridges. Second, storing your ammunition and your gun in different places makes it as useful as a brick when an intruder enters your home. "Consider storing your guns at a gun club or storage facility?" This person must be a lib. They believe that society as a whole is incapable of blowing its own nose without hurting itself. This person is obviosly afraid of firearms. The libs who want to do away with guns in this country should really face the fact that it's our poisened culture that is the problem and not the gun itself. They should also realize that they are the ones who have continually provided that poisen since the 1960's! Libs have polluted our culture with violent movies and ugly music all while hiding behind our 1st ammendment. If I sound like an angry conservative, you might be right...
Anonymous said
on 7/26/2006 The fact stated that there is a three times greater chance to have a homicide in your home if you own a gun may actually be true. This is because when a thief forces entry into your home, and you want to defend yourself, you will probably shoot the thief. This then results in a homicide, though justified. And if you buy a gun for home defense, you probably don't want it locked up and empty, because if it were, it would probably take you a good 30 seconds or more (depending on where the gun/ammo is) to get it unlocked and loaded. In that time, the thief may already have found you, and if he has a gun, would probably shoot you, with the gun he has (which was probably illegally obtained).
My advice is to keep a loaded magazine by your bed and the firearm somewhere up high, still easily reached by you, but not by your child. Also, when you purchase a gun, if you have young children, teach them that guns are dangerous, and tell them that often, then, you won't have such a problem with a home defense weapon, as you'll be able to keep it out in the open with no chance of your child getting it and playing with it because they will know it is dangerous. Let you child use a gun. Get them to become familiar with firearms. Shoot at clays or other reactive targets to show them why the gun is dangerous.
When I was a child, my father kept a loaded gun in the house, out of my reach, and taught me that it was dangerous and never to be played with. I never touched that gun unless he let me. I also never tried to get to said firearm. He also let me fire a .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol by myself, alone, when I was seven, and I came to no harm. This is because I practiced safe gun handling. I still do, and to this day I have never had an accident with a firearm, because as a child, I was taught this and it has followed me throughout life.
Anonymous said
on 2/10/2006 In one of the steps we are told to lock the gun in another safe place if we do not own a purposely built gun cabinet. That is an unwise suggestion, If you don't own a gun cabinet you should not own a gun, period.