>>>>>>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
>>
>>
>>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

My point is that a kid can die via a gun, or a steak knife, or drain cleaner, or medication.

Do you not allow your kids into people's houses who have drain cleaner or steak knives?
Do you interrogate the homeowners of each house before your kids enter because one or more
of these items might be laying around??

You have irrationaly singled out the gun when there are many dangers in a house.

Your fears are based on perceptions and assumptions rather than fact.