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Originally Posted by DementedReality
yes you are right .. however, this is how i choose to balance my personal distaste for guns and what they are capable of and your right to own them.
i feel the same way about hard core drugs as well. i would rather use my own judgement and stay away from you then to see the government make that decision for me.
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You have every right to decide that your child shouldn't be in a house with guns. In fact, my son was in kindergarten and wanted friends over and I felt it was important to let parents know there was a gun in my house. I encountered two different moms who didn't want their kids in a house with a gun. I invited them to come over and see how they were stored. In my bedroom there were two closets. In one closet is a small locker mounted up toward the ceiling, with a combination lock. In the other closet is another one mounted the same with with another combination lock. There was no way any kid was getting into either of those lockers. Once they saw how the guns were stored they had no problem. I would never take a gun out when kids were around. I've never had anyone actually refuse to have their kids in my house because of my gun. I think rather than refuse to allow your child in a house with a gun, you would be better off seeing how responsible the gun owner is. The fact of the matter is, at any time your child could be in a house with a gun, not everyone is going to disclose that to you. My kids have too many friends who's parents are police officers. I know those houses have guns in them, I just want to make sure they're stored responsibly.