by purplesofa 57 Replies latest jw friends
To gunowners:
Is your gun in a place where a child, unstable person, mentally ill person, suicidal person, or stranger cannot get to it? Do you ..right now, know an unstable person that owns a gun?
Until we go through this debate, hash out all the stats, get laws passed, appropriate money for mental illness, etc etc etc.
we can make sure our guns are in a secure place.
Ask other gunowners the same.
This is something we can do NOW.
thanks,
purps
I don't feel the need to own one.
Yep. ALL of mine are locked up in a 600lb, fireproof safe, except my .45, which is locked up in a safe bolted to my nightstand that will only open after scanning my or my wife's thumbprint.
Low-key
MrFreeze~I don't own a gun either.
our guns are all locked in a metal gun safe, which is bolted to the wall studs in the storage room. The ammunition is stored in a separately locked compartment in the gun safe (it has a different key). The only keys are kept on Just Ron's key ring, and the kids have never seen him open the gun safe.
You forgot one thing. What if the gun owner is mentally-ill? I think that people can be seemingly stable and that just because they snap does not mean they would be considered ill enough to not get a gun when you get into the details.
IIf all the guns are locked away, it kind of makes a mockery of the notion that they will provide instant protection doesn't it? I never believed it before, now im actually laughing at the thought. I think in peoples heads they sit there like Clint Eastwood (before he went all 'empty chair crazy')
Aren't people who think they need semi-automatic weapons by definition mentally I'll?
The safe that contains my .45 is very quick. Put my thumb on the sensor, and it springs open.
The guns we own are not for protection, they are for hunting, and we eat everything Just Ron kills.
I agree with Trillaz' point - a person may be mentally healthy and no risk to anyone when he obtains a gun, but 20 years down the road he may become dangerous. I don't know what the ideal solution is, but I guarantee that if one of my kids showed symptoms of becoming violent or suicidal, our guns would be gone immediately.
