Gun control advocates have no case.

[larrwhit]

Originally posted by Wizzard~Of~Ozz


When is the last time a rock or knife went off while a child had it in thier hands?

My largest complaint to all of this is, a majority of the people who own guns do NOT need them for any purpose.

Could you also include the statistics for non-accidental fatalities for all of the info. I can tell these statistics come from a very biased source, similar to the # of people who die from smoking, I think this statistic includes the people who were smoking when they were shot or died in some other accident.

wiz My son was taught from a very early age that any gun in the house was a loaded gun. it wasn't a toy and was to be treated with respect as a tool. accidental shooting happen when children watch tv and get a false image of what guns are about. its usualy an "empty" gun that hurts people.
he was also taught to never point a gun at anything he wasn't prepared to kill. if you point a gun at someone, pull the trigger. if not they will take the gun and kill you. I know it seems like a strange pont of view but it works in many ways. i would rather be forced to hire a lawyer then stand at my sons grave

[daveleau]

WTG, larrwhit!

It is wonderful that you take the responsibility of teaching your son this. If more parents did this, we would have even fewer accidents than we have already (there are more accidental swimming pool drownings in the US than accidental shootings). Children who are taught about guns in this manner are less likely to commit violent crimes. I think this has less to do with the child's gun knowledge (although respect and knowledge of guns goes a long way to helping) and more to do with the fact that the parent is intimately involved and proactive in the child's life and education. The lack of such involvement is really what causes child shooting like those that have sparked fierce gun debates like Columbine.

[Epidemic]

The columbine idiots would very likely have killed just as many people if not more had they simply used the explosives Kives and other flamables. Gun control would not have stopped these clowns. Heck it might even have made them spend more time on there alternative plans and they would have worked better.