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A home-defense seminar at this weekends National Rifle Association convention urged parents to overcome their initial misgivings and store firearms in their childrens bedrooms, Think Progress reported on Saturday.
If youre worried that your kid is going to try to break into the safe that is in their bedroom with a gun in it, you have bigger problems than home defense, said speaker Rob Pincus, a former police officer who know heads up his own firearms instruction company, I.C.E. Training. If you think that the kid whos going to try to break into the safe because its in their room isnt sneaking into your room to try to break into stuff, youre naive and you have bigger problems than this.
If a parent is in the middle of the house when their home alarm goes off overnight, Pincus said, and they are going to head for their childrens room to defend against an intruder, it made sense to stash a gun in their closet.
Theres absolutely nothing wrong with staging the gun where youre most likely to barricade [yourself], Pincus said. If you have to have to run across the house to check on the kids, theres no reason to take them out of the bathroom and move them to some other room when the bad guy might be wandering around your house.
As Think Progress reported, a study of 30,000 child deaths involving accidental shootings by the Center for Disease Control showed children between the ages of 5 and 14 years of age were 13 times more likely to be killed in the four U.S. states with the highest gun ownership numbers than the four with the lowest totals.
Watch video, posted by Think Progress on Saturday, below.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/04/nra-speakers-advice-keep-a-gun-in-your-childs-room/
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)These asshats try to out crazy each other to piss off sane people and garner headlines.
Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I'd rather live in a society where this is not an issue...but I guess paranoia...
arcane1
(38,613 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]That was my first thought, too.
What real and imminent deadly threat do they actually think they're likely to face (unless they're making/dealing something illegal and have a stash)?
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)went into the house and stole another gun plus several boxes of bullets. he later sold one of the guns to a convicted felon and threw the other away. the car and house he 'broke' into was the chief of police.
the nra has completely lost it`s ability to reason. how could anyone think hiding a gun in a child's room is sane.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)If I was ever in the position of someone breaking into my home. Leading the intruders to my kid's room is the absolute LAST thing I would do.
Is there some kind of stupid test they give to the NRA leaders?
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)even when I lived in some sketchy neighborhoods. What sort of Dirty Harry fantasy are these schmucks living in?