>>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,373502,00.html
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>>Boy, that's the closest they've come to victory in over a century!
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>I can still remember my father teaching me on firearms, "Never point at anything that you don't intend to kill". And as a point in case, he recounted the story - might be fictitious, I don't know - of a guy who fatally shot his fiancé, in the belief that the firearm he was playing with was not charged.

That does happen - far too many times with children playing with a weapon that wasn't secured properly.

As soon as we had a child in our house, most of the guns were unloaded and locked in a gun cabinet or safes in various parts of the house.

One pistol is in the bedroom with a locked trigger guard and ammo in another drawer. Not immediate access but better than nothing for protection.

Since I make my own ammunition, all powder is locked away as well (a pound size can of gunpowder makes a suprising blast if ignited (did that to dispose of a questionable can years ago - WHOOSH!! - whish I had video).