Comments on: Lock Up Those Handguns, Please…

By: Joe Metacarpa

Joe Metacarpa — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:10:13 +0000

I am looking for a finger print hand gun safe that I can program for two different finger prints. Also must be big enough for 2 hand guns.

By: M

Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:19:00 +0000

Not locking up weapons but teaching kids about gun safety is only a partial solution. What if your child knows they are deadly and how to work them and they have access to them? The people who don’t want them locked up are forgetting something terrible, what if your child wants to hurt themselves or someone else. It’s certainly something parents don’t want to consider but it happens, and if it were locked away how many teens/children might that save?

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:11:51 +0000

The guilty teen was living in a house with his grandmother. The gun-owner was the grandmother’s brother, who, apparently, also lived in the house. So this was not the case of a “visiting relative”. The kid had obviously figured out where his grand-uncle stored the weapon.

Interestingly, the kid had already been disciplined for bringing a knife to school. In my mind, that certainly dictated that his family members tightened their in-home security.

By: Steve Clark

Steve Clark — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:49:46 +0000

I agree 100% with what Steve posted before me.

I need to add though that parents also MUST be aware AND PRESENT whenever their children’s friends are in the home. Even if you trust your own kids – and you should, after taking time to teach them about firearms & the responsibility they demand of us – it’s too easy for other kids to “find” things when left unsupervised in somebody else’s home.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:42:14 +0000

This sounds like a ‘California thing’. I don’t know how much delay in responing to a break-in is acceptable. Many of us and our ancestors were raised with loaded guns in the house as well as my own children. Children were taught to respect and understand guns and their parents as well. These days that is not always the case. I suggest parents spend the time and money to give their children some quality one-on-one time with them to make their children ‘gun safe’, Also, you will have a much better chance to protect them..