This is purely hypothetical and is being posted for the sake of discussion and curiosity.
I've often seen posts asking if parent's ask the parents of their children's friends if there are guns in the home before they let their children go over to the home.
My question is to those that do own a gun, would you tell the parents of your children's friends if they were to ask you if you had guns in the home? Would the question put you off and prevent you from having their child over to your home to play? How far would you be willing to go to alleviate the concerns of the child's parents?
And no, i would not change anything about my life for someone else. My guns are put away where my DD can't get to them, and she will be learning to not touch it until she is older, and even then only with my or my DH's permission.
My husband said something last night that I hadn't even thought about. I'm curious if other gun owners would have the same question in the back of their minds:
Chidl's Parent: Hi, I'm Johnny's mom! Our boys are great friends at school. I just wanted to meet y'all and find out if there's anything I should know about before I send Johnny down to play; you know, dogs, a pool, guns, anything like that.
My Husband: We live on a farm (not quite yet but very, very soon). We have livestock. Ergo, we have dogs. I'm a gunsmith, ergo we have guns
Johnny's Mom: I'd like to meet the dogs and see where your guns are stored, if you don't mind.
My Husband: No. How do I know exactly who you are? How do I know you're not casing my home for future robbery? I told you that we do in fact have dogs. I told you I have guns. If that makes you uncomfortable, the boys are welcome to play at your home or outside. Just so you know, I have a 15 minute program on gun safety featuring McGruff and all our children's friends are required to watch it before playing inside our home with our children.
Have to admit, this took me aback a little. Never even occured to me that someone **might** possibly think that nosey questions were being asked in the name of information but really for nefarious purposes.
Id answer honestly.
Yep, we do, but kids ont mess with them.
If that scares you, im sorry your kid cant ome over
Honestly, ive never thought about it beore, but now that i o, if something happened, id like to know that wherever my kid was the parents ould protect her, not let her be a victim.... So , take from that what you will.
We only have a BB gun in our home, obviously not loaded...but if anyone asked we would tell them honesty.
My sons 11.10 and 5 know gun safety. They can come across a gun at anytime as criminals just toss them to drop evidence WHERE EVER! So it is important that your child knows gun safety then it is more important for you to know weather or not the home owner owns a gun...
You arm your child with knowledge because you can't hide the world from your child, eventually he/she will be in a problem that will require him to use his knowledge on how to handle the issue.
Quoting Christy644:
hypothetically....If I offered you a ride would you take it? Probably. Would you ask if there is a gun in my car? Probably not.
There's 2.
You would never know. So what's more comforting for you? Not knowing or knowing?
Vocal anti gay marriage, award winning far right historian kills himself inside Notre-Dame Cathedral
- katy_kay08
on Jan. 7, 2013 at 3:28 PM