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jenerally
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do you/DH own a gun?
jenerally
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What will you do with it after your kid is born?
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Re: do you/DH own a gun?
DD #1 passed away in January 2011 at 14 days old due to congenital heart disease
DD#2 lost in January 2012 at 23 weeks due to anhydramnios caused by a placental abruption
i'm teaching dd how to clean mine...JK!
I have a lock on it for at home and I keep it where she can't get to it.
Let him play cops and robbers! What else?
o/k
to everyone who hates guns, I don't hunt and I don't care for guns either. I have to carry for protection though. It's not really the people who are registered gun owners you have to worry about....they account for less than 3% of fatal gun shot wounds.
NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My FIL is a hunter and has been an arms dealer (with license) for over 10 years now. Thank god DH didn't inherit his father's love of guns. It totally skives me out, but he's a really smart, responsible man and takes a lot of safty courses so I try to cut him some slack. He has them locked up somewhere- in the 5+ years I've known him I've never seen them. But it really freaks me out to think about my kid being in a house with guns.
DH has a hunting rifle, shotgun, and a handgun.
Before DC is mobile, I'm assuming we'll keep them up (out of reach) in the closet like we do now. Once DC starts crawling/walking, I'm assuming we'll get a gun safe to lock them up in.
We have DH's pellet gun from when he was younger. No pellets though.
I found out after I moved out that my dad has a gun in the house. He apparently has it locked away, good enough that I never even knew it was there.
DH has one. It is going in a lock box. I wish he would get rid of it but he feels very strongly about having it.
About two years ago we heard glass break downstairs at night while we were in our bedroom. Our alarm didn't go off but DH took out the gun anyway and went to investigate. I was absolutely petrified both of the glass breaking and of the implications of the gun. Weird thing was we never found anything broken. We figured the cats could have knocked something over but we never found it. We searched for days. We were getting ready for bed, tv wasn't on, no radio, we were just talking and we both heard it clear as day. None of the neighbors heard anything or had anything outside broken, we asked them the next day. Although I was scared of the gun, at the moment we heard the glass, I was glad we had it even though I didn't want DH going downstairs with it.
Yep several. The shot guns and rifles are locked in our closet and our hand guns are in special safe in our night stands.
DS will be taught from a very early age to respect guns and that they are not for play.
DH has hunting rifles. They are at his parents right now until we get a gun safe.
Absolutely not.
We don't now and never will have guns in our home. I don't even know anyone with a gun. I'm glad we live where we do so my child will never have any need to know anything about guns.
Yes I own a 9 MM and a 45 and my husband has a shotgun - all with trigger locks; all around the house. My two older SD (20 and 16) have been to gun safety classes and to the range; my next two SD will go when they hit 13 respectively. My step children knows to respect the weapons in our house and they are never to be played with.
I spent 8 years in the USMCR - I never handled a weapon before I went - now I can break down and put together a M16A2 Service Rifle in less than a minute. I am a expert on the M16, and 9 and I am a sharpshooter with the 45.
Why so many weapons - because - I was single for a long time - and there are a lot of crazy people out there - I feel if you can get pass 7 lbs of terror (my Chi) and a security alarm - you better pray you get past me...because I believe in shooting first and asking questions later....but hey thats just me.
What a disservice to your children. Do you plan on sheltering them from all things you don't like? One of these days, you won't be around, and then what information/education do they pull from? It's almost the equivalent of not speaking about sex to them because you don't want them to ever do it.
And yes, I live in Texas, we own guns, and our children WILL be taught to handle them properly and appropriately. Gunds don't kill people..people kill people...with a gun or with something else.