>>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>Did your kids get shot & die the last time they were in a house with a gun? If you think they have
>>>never been in a house with a gun, then you're wrong. Just because you knew or didn't know didn't
>>>change anything.
>>>
>>>So that only leaves your perception of the dangers of guns in people's houses. Unlocked guns, yes,
>>>they are dangerous. But so are medications carelessly left around 4 year olds, and steak knives
>>>left out where kidscan get them. People have been killing each other for thousands of years - with
>>>and without guns.
>>>
>>>Why not say, "And I'd never have knowingly let my kids visit a home with anyting dangerous in it"?
>>
>>Because guns are more dangerous and less otherwise useful. Medications have a purpose other than killing. Knives have many purposes other than killing. Guns are for killing.
>>
>>Tamar
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>
>Not according to the statistics:
>http://www.disastercenter.com/cdc/111riskb.html
>http://adam.about.com/encyclopedia/Death-among-children-and-adolescents.htm
>

How do those statistics support your point? Guns don't kill only by homicide, but also by accident (my greatest fear about them) and suicide.

Tamar