>On the gun issue and your questions to Kevin Marois...we have an electronic lock box. We were told early on that trigger locks were a joke, and from what I've read about them, I tend to agree with that. I think lock boxes are the best solution, but I'm not as stunned by Mike Cole's answer as other people are.
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>We teach kids about crossing the street, riding a bike (and driving a car!), about drugs and alcohol, about other dangers....why is this any different? Suppose a kid is at another kid's house, and they come across a gun....I'll bet that if the kid is trained about the dangers of guns in the same way he's trained about other dangers, all will be better off.
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>There are arguments to be made that better laws on guns might have led to a different end result on the Virginia Tech campus earlier in the year.
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>Question - do you or your husband own a gun?

Nope. Never have, never will. And I'd never have knowingly let my kids visit a home with a gun in it. When mine were little, we never though to ask, but I know my sister asks.

Tamar