Is There a Gun in Your House?
Living on a farm, I was raised around guns my entire life. And now that I’m a mom living on a farm, there are still guns around the house.
When asked recently what I thought about having guns around the house, I have to say, I think it’s a necessity, especially living on a farm – wild critters such as raccoons, coyotes and fox sometimes grace us with a visit in hopes of snagging a free chicken dinner and without a gun in the house, they’d have us out of business in no time.
Why is it that everyone things that guns kill people?
I was raised to know that it’s not the guns, it’s the idiots that are allowed to own them for purposes other than protection.
I’m not sure what the answer is to getting a handle on guns and violence, but taking them from the hands of those whose weapons you can find via their lawful registrations is not the answer.
What are your thoughts on guns? Do you have one in your home? What healthy habits do you practice where guns are concerned?
Tags: gun control
I support very tight, highly-regulated gun control. There have been too many examples of badly-secured guns being stolen by criminal gangs and/or taken to school by little children with tragic consequences. It’s easy enough to say “well, it’s a parents fault,” but with so many families living in homeless shelters or with relatives, it is easy to see how they have no control over their living environments that might include guns.
While you might be used to guns, I don’t understand why you need “guns” rather than “a gun” and a few slingshots around the house. Also, how do you keep your guns secure from theft?
On a farm and in a family that hunts, there’s a need for guns.
We do keep the ammo locked in a fire safe box while the guns are in safe but unlocked locations.
I do like the idea of slingshots though. I think I’d be much handier with one of those
We also have several guns at home. I actually live in town but grew up in the country and love to target shoot. You MUST take responsibility and keep them away from access to little hands. How awful would I feel if my little ones were injured by a gun? I can’t even imagine.
People kill people. Stupid people kill people. If guns aren’t available to the stupid people, they will find other ways to attempt to kill people.
We always had guns in our home when I was growing up. Hunting, for one, was a big deal. Not only did it serve as a food source but it is also a hobby to just about every man I have ever known in these parts. Aside from hunting, my father is also an army veteran and an ex-police officer. Having a gun is second nature to him.
The guns in our house were never locked up. We even had a gun that was always loaded either in case of intruders or in case of a wild animal attacking our farm or domestic animals.
As kids growing up with guns in our home, it was never a concern. I don’t even remember having to be told that I was to NOT touch the guns. It was just known that you didn’t play with them. I would never, in a million years, thought about playing with or allowing my friends to play with the guns in our home. We were all taught gun safety and how to load and fire a gun.
As with any issue, I don’t think this issue is cut and dry/black and white. This issue goes deeper than whether or not guns should be allowed in people’s homes. It goes all the way back to the parenting issue that is so commonly discussed. Parents don’t parent their children. They depend on schools to teach their kids right from wrong and how to read and write. Do we really expect these same parents to teach their children the proper use and handling of a gun???
Many of the people going around shooting off guns and killing others are obviously disturbed in one way or another. They obviously didn’t grow up in the loving nurturing home that we would hope for them. They go around harming others, mentally and physically, and taking lives because they have no other skills to cope with the things that go on in their lives. They feel wronged or threatened and they don’t know what to do or how to deal with it so they resort to violence and murder.
The issue goes way beyond, should we be allowed to have guns in our home. It goes clear to the root of the problem, poor parenting, unloving homes, unhealthy homes and relationships, inability to cope and deal with pain, heartache and hard times.
I used to think guns don’t kill people, people kill people, until my husbands gun went off and killed his 1st wife who was 3 months pregnant. It wasn’t even loaded. After this and lots of research I have found this is an all to common occurance, and there is no way I would let a gun into my house now.