guns
...hild sees the gun they will think it is a toy and pick it up. I have to tell you from experience, my father has owned and housed guns my whole life. I knew from an early age that they are not to touch them or there would be severe consequences from my father. That is all that you really need to do is to instill a fear of guns into your kids if you want to have guns in your home. Children may not know that the guns can hurt them but they know a spanking will. Bills have been proposed in many places to make it mandatory to keep a trigger lock on all guns that are stored in a house. That sounds all fine and dandy in theory; however, when put into effect in the real world it kind of defeats the purpose of having a gun at all. If you hear someone breaking into your house in the middle of the night and you need to defend your family, who wants to fiddle with finding the trigger lock key and unlocking it. By that time the robber has a gun to your head telling you to kiss your life goodbye. There is one simple precaution you can take to keep guns from being dangerous at all. Don’t keep the thing loaded. That way if your child does manage to get his hands on it there is no danger of anyone getting shot. Keep your bullets in a lock box. Most little kids will not be left alone long enough to root around for the key, load the thing, and shoot someone. If you don’t pay enough attention to your kids that they have that much uns...