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Originally Posted by Byte1
I get your point, and agree with "properly trained." However, that does not make a responsible or sensible person by itself. When I was in Junior High/Middle school we had a gun club sponsored by the school and we brought our rifles in and shot targets. We had NRA instruction/instructors that taught gun safety.
As for your point regarding "safely stored" I concur with that IF/IF your guns are stored, ie. spare guns. If you carry a gun for self defense or keep one in the home for self defense, it is not going to be safely stored. But, I do get your point. I taught my children at a very young age, gun safety and allowed them to shoot my firearms with my supervision. One of my children used to shoot competitively on the weekends, and has a very nice shooting range on the property. One of my children uses an indoor local range and a range sponsored by the state parks. My grandchildren (some of them) hunt during season. There have been no accidents in my family (knock on wood or praise GOD).
The saying has been worn out, but still relevant: "Guns do not kill people, people kill people." Even with a new gun carry law, the federal background check will still be required to purchase a firearm.
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Fans of the NRA may think that, "the WORN OUT" singsong is still RELEVANT, but not everyone BUYS into that propaganda. But, it makes the NRA and the Gun Makers LOTS of BIG money PROFITS, so we should NOT CARE if a few LITTLE people are killed because the US of A is # 1 by far in gun ownership on planet EARTH. Just forget those little people, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Go back to watching the mind-numbing TV channel of choice by the Propagandists.