HFClassicalAcademy Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Did you all catch the 20/20 on guns tonight?? Yikes!! Makes me completely rethink letting kids go over homes with guns...regardless of gun safety, etc. Liz in NC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krista in LA Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Did you all catch the 20/20 on guns tonight?? Yikes!! Makes me completely rethink letting kids go over homes with guns...regardless of gun safety, etc. Liz in NC The beginning started out fine, and I found it interesting. But despite their disclaimer at the beginning, it became quite clear that they were making a political statement. I hate it when the mainstream media does that. I guess I should have turned it off then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiCO Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 The beginning started out fine, and I found it interesting. But despite their disclaimer at the beginning, it became quite clear that they were making a political statement. I hate it when the mainstream media does that. I guess I should have turned it off then. I agree. Not exactly a balanced show. i have guns in my house, locked up in the gun safe. My kids do not know the combination, and they do not know where the combination is. I have the combination written in code, hidden in my room. My brother and sister-in-law have the combination also. They each live 1,000 miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricia Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 We too own them. Our children use them at a family based shooting range near us. But in our home they are under lock and key even though they are familiar with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagnfun Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 The beginning started out fine, and I found it interesting. But despite their disclaimer at the beginning, it became quite clear that they were making a political statement. I hate it when the mainstream media does that. I guess I should have turned it off then. :iagree::iagree::iagree: There I said it.:auto: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Did you all catch the 20/20 on guns tonight?? Yikes!! Makes me completely rethink letting kids go over homes with guns...regardless of gun safety, etc. Liz in NC We were watching a Stossel in the Classroom episode about risk and perception of risk. One of the examples used was about homes with guns vs. homes with swimming pools. He pointed out that a child was far more likely to get hurt and even to die at a home with a pool, but that this registered as a far lower risk (and was a risk that we spent much less time teaching our kids about). The episode also made the observation that a child injury or death from a gun accident would almost always make the news but a death in a pool rarely would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloha2U Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Guns don't kill people... people kill people. Why not educate your children in gun safety?! You could contact your local Fish & Game office for hunter's education or check out NRAs Programs. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 My son was telling me about the show and I replied that I am strobglu insupport of safety education including gun safety. My children were taught preliminary gun safety when they were little- guns can look like toys, bad guns go off very easily or can explode (this was when we were living in CA, we had police chases of robbers running near our house, and badly made Chinese cheap guns were implicated in all types of gun accidents), don't topuch and tell an adult. As they have gotten older, they all have gotten gun education. Basic gun education doesn't include shooting since the Eddie Eafle program is presented in schools and other non-shooting environments. My girls particularly have heard the gun safety lecture because everytime a new person came to 4H shooting, they heard it again. As a homeschooler, I use all sorts of things in my teaching. Natasha Richardson's death was a teaching moment and Walk, Talk, and Die syndrome. ANd a previous poster is correct about misjudging risks. I know that not all pool deaths are reported in the news since in the county I lived in, a homeschooling family lost a young child on the day they were moving out. There was no story in the paper and yet the so-called gun accident where late teens were playing Russian Roulette was certainly covered. Even with the incomplete reporting of pool deaths, their were more of those reported anyway, many more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HFClassicalAcademy Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 I imagine that the majority of WTM board users are responsible about teaching safety on everything...there are LOTS of parents/adults who are not. I've known a few gun owners (before I had kids) who were completely irresponsible about gun ownership. The truth is that unless you know the parents for sure, you don't know how responsible and safe grownups are in keeping their guns out of the reach of kids. My friends from back home (in Texas) have their gun in a safe...yet they leave their safe unlocked...just in case. It doesn't make sense to me, especially since they have 2 kids. They say the kids don't know where the safe is. There are too many unknown factors out there. But I do believe in teaching gun safety and the right of people to own guns! Liz in NC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I imagine that the majority of WTM board users are responsible about teaching safety on everything...there are LOTS of parents/adults who are not. I've known a few gun owners (before I had kids) who were completely irresponsible about gun ownership. The truth is that unless you know the parents for sure, you don't know how responsible and safe grownups are in keeping their guns out of the reach of kids. Liz in NC That's pretty much how I see it. I don't trust college educated people to teach my kids in school. How can I automatically trust other parents when it comes to guns, just because they're educated about them and have experience with them? I've been to one of ds's friends' homes where I saw their locked gun case. I've been friendly with the mother for several years and, to some extent, with the father. I don't think they'd ever intentionally be stupid. But I also know their kid, who has little in the way of impulse control. I don't trust their kid to obey his parents when it comes to guns if he won't obey them when it comes to lesser things. I don't have any sort of blanket rule about guns in homes, but there are definitely cases where I just won't allow my kids to be around certain people who do have guns in their home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiCO Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I agree. Not exactly a balanced show. I wanted to ad- I thought a lot of the gun owners in that show were not using common sense. I found the 10 year-olds shooting uzis while their fathers held their shoulders to be disturbing. Why put a weapon like that in someone's hands when you know they will not be able to control it? I was not surprised to hear of the accident. My daughters do shoot, but they shoot .22s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peek a Boo Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 The beginning started out fine, and I found it interesting. But despite their disclaimer at the beginning, it became quite clear that they were making a political statement. I hate it when the mainstream media does that. I guess I should have turned it off then. :iagree: I don't have any sort of blanket rule about guns in homes, but there are definitely cases where I just won't allow my kids to be around certain people. I think I'd just stop right there, lol! guns or no guns ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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