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Originally Posted by PIMking
As far as I know there are no Lock them up laws like in Canada. Heck up until july this year in Alabama you could have a fully loaded ar15 in the back seat of your car (or front) with out any license what so ever. But if you had a pistol, no matter if it's unloaded in the trunk and locked in a nuclear bomb shelter, you must have a license to carry it.
Stupid crap like this is what makes it even worse. We have dumb laws that make no sense that do nothing for safety.
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I believe it depends on the state. I think some states say your gun must be stored separate from the ammo. I think.
But in the end you are fighting a culture where people quite literally think sleeping with a loaded gun under their pillow in a house with 3 kids under 5 is a prudent thing to do. For those people it won't matter what the law is as they will ignore it because they are, quite frankly, idiots.
And no I don't make this up. In our facility of about 100 people I know at least 5 that do just that. None of them actually have any sort of recent gun training and some no training at all.
What is there to be fearful of? Well in all honesty people who carry guns are just as likely (perhaps even more likely) to get angry. It is easy for them to pull a handgun on someone in the heat of the moment (it's why I think you see a lot of domestic violence end with guns). It happens. There is also a fear that your kid is going to go to a friends house and that friend has one of those idiot parents who doesn't respect guns. Sure you can be fearful of the same things in other countries but the prevalence of guns is ridiculous. How else do you explain a run on what are completely impractical guns that serve no purpose other than killing other people after every mass shooting. It's beyond bizarre.
But it is changing. A majority support restrictions on who can get a gun and how to get a gun (Washington hasn't listened yet).