"mmc" wrote in message
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"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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I was surfing my High Def channels before packing it in tonight and
caught a program called 'Lock & Load'.
It was about a family owned gun shop in Colorado and all the cusomers
who came in to try out & buy shootin' irons.
Couldn't believe it...I bet about 40% of the customers brought their
small children in...mostly toddlers. Some of the older (8-10 ) kids were
passed what looked like auto assault weapons to play with.
Man...talk about a gun culture...a lot of the customers already owned
numerous weapons.
Up here the cops and a local camera store are giving away Sony point &
shoot cameras for each handgun/rifle passed in. After the turned in guns
are examined and checked for any history, they are destroyed.


Lets see. Turn in a $500 weapon and get a $50 camera. Good business.
For the state. I was raised around firearms. The kids getting
accidently killed are most likely from parents who do not acknowledge
firearms and the only ones the kids see are on TV and the person getting
shot 99 times and getting up. I was taught gun safety from as far back
as I can remember. My kids were taught firearms safety. Started
shooting small bore rifles and 20 ga shotguns at beercans and clay
pidgeons when they were maybe 8 or 9. Neither kid owes guns as they do
not desire to, but they do know what to do to keep themselves and the
family safe if around a firearm. Education on firearms is missing these
days.

FL has a law on the books that makes parents responsible if Jr. takes Dads
firearm and shoots Suzy while playing cops and robbers.
Too often the law isn't used. I think this has been twisted around where
somehow the parents rights are being violated if he/she/they is held
responsible for leaving a firearm unsecured and this results in Suzy being
shot. .
It'm my constitutional and legal right (FL) to own firearms (and I do so
responsibly) and it's the other sides right to bitch and moan about it.
If I shoot someone it's because they are commiting a life threatening
action towards myself or another person. Or they've shown extremely poor
judgement by breaking into my house.


Same thing here in California. Hell, I think someone breaks in to a house a
steals a firearm without a trigger lock or in a safe and you are still
responsible for any shooting by the bad guy. But most accidents by kids are
by uninformed kids. Same with adults.