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captainblack -> RE: Why people support higher capacity magazines (1/13/2013 2:59:54 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
And you are assuming she would have needed more to save her and the kids lives. It could just as easily be assumed that while one was being shot the other would have ran. Its a good thing she had that gun. Its a good thing he did as most robbers do these days and rang the door bell, giving her time to get the gun from the safe and them get to safety.
No need to open a safe or have time to get the gun in many homes. When I was a child I had my first gun lesson at the age of 2 or 3. It consisted of do not touch the guns. They can hurt you and if they do not your bottom will be sore!
My second gun lesson came at the age of 4 when my dad took me out back to shoot the 22 pistol. I tore up lots of beer and soda cans with dad's guidance.
From that time on there was a loaded gun in pretty much every room of the house. I knew not to touch them, but mom or dad could get one in a jiffy. About the time I turned 8 dad told me if someone forced their way into the house while I was home that I should first grab the 20 gauge if I could, hold on tight and fire each barrel in succession. If I could not get to the 20 gauge I was to grab the 22 pistol and empty the gun at the intruder.
There are plenty of homes like mine around the country where kids are taught early to respect guns. I was never permitted to handle any gun, except in case of intruder in the house, without adult supervision until I was about 12 or 13 at which point I could take my BB gun out on my own to target shoot and I think I was allowed to take my single shot 22 out about the time I turned 15, but dad insisted that if I was going to load and shoot it he check things out first to make sure my choice of target placement was safe and that I was following proper firearms safety.
I do not at this time have a firearm in my home. I live in a city that thinks it is above the Constitution and Bill of Rights. This is not by choice, but because that is where I could find work. There is a court case on the way to the supreme court now that might overthrow the prohibition on firearm ownership much as happened in DC and Chicago. When that happens there will be a firearm in every room of my home. My front door was already broken down once. No one was home, no one was hurt, but I lost about $25000 worth of stuff that my insurance refused to pay for because I did not have receipts going back some 30 years for my property! Had I been home when the door was broken in who knows what would have happened in my unarmed state.
I know someone will bring up how some kid got his parent's gun and shot himself, the neighbor kid, or the cat.....that only happens in homes where the parents do not teach their kids properly. If you have a hazard in your home and you have kids it is your job to teach them about the hazard. It matters not if the hazard is a firearm, a knife, A/C outlets, or swimming pools! If a parent is unable to keep their kid safe with a gun in the house then either that parent should chose not to have a gun, or their genes will not make it downstream very far. Just because you chose not have a gun does not mean that your choice should stand for me as well.
I am a free American and I have a right to chose for myself. Yep I am fully pro choice!
CB
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