Kindergartner brings gun to Texas school!

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

Well if you say so GR, but that seems a little off topic. Back on track, here are some ways to prevent your child from getting his or her hands on your gun:

1) Keep the gun locked in a safe protected by DNA-sampling, eye-scanning, voice-sampling technology. And never, ever forget to put it in there after you're done playing with it.
2) Don't own a gun.

The second one seems a lot simpler to me.

To each his own in that regard.

I could avoid being in a car accident by not owning a car, but i chose to own one.

Electing not to own a gun is just as much of a right as owning one is, and i fully respect your decision not to own one.

but the funny thing is you never see attempts to pass legislation requiring you to buy a firearm... the opposite is constantly true.

As for the gun safe: i think DNA / retinal scan / voice recognition lock tech is a little much for storage of just about anything in any average home.

a 4 to 6 digit pin code lock like the one i linked to earlier for only $80-100 will suffice. unfortunately, many people chose not to use locks at all.

for a large gun collection a rifle safe with a combination lock should do the job. (I didn't have the combination to my dad's rifle safe until i was 21 years old! despite the fact that guns I OWNED were inside of it)

I elect not to lock any of my firearms meant for immediate home defense, and why should i? i don't have children about.

but if there are children routinely in the home for any reason - whether they reside there, or you baby sit them once in a while... lock up any and all firearms.