Clint, apparently you don't watch news or talk alot to other parents. Not every child is disciplined enough to stay away from a gun even if you told to. Sure you can be a good parent, but I think I dont have to tell you that only a minority of children listen to their parents. If you let everything dangerous outside you will soon be surprised. Hot ovens plates, knives, medicine, guns... all stuff children love to play with, even when being older.
As for other people, I personally am surrounded by people who know little to nothing about guns, I would DEFINETELY lock away mine in such a situation. The only person I want to have access to is me and people who know about it and I trust. If I have family members who know how to use it I tell them how to access it incase I can't.
Also you can't be sure if an intruder can get access to it too. You say they won't, but what makes you so sure?

A gun a dangerous tool and every crime commited with it due to unsafe storage is your fault too. You are irresponsible and shouldn't even be allowed to own one if you don't know how to treat it correctly.

Also you can't be sure if an intruder can get access to it too. You say they won't, but what makes you so sure?

Excellent point, Cata.

As I said:

I want the gun within reach.

This is assuming that the intruder comes at night, as most invasions do. If it's nighttime, I'll be in bed. And if the gun is within my reach, as it would be, then unless the intruder is superhuman, there's no way he can get to the gun before I can.

Not every child is disciplined enough to stay away from a gun even if you told to.

I agree 100%. However, if your child isn't disciplined enough to not play with guns, you shouldn't have guns at all, locked away or not, because they will find a way to get into it sooner or later. They'll find the key, see you put in the passcode, whatever--you will slip up eventually. But if you can discipline them, you won't need to lock the guns away. If you can't, don't own guns.
Note: won't be able to respond again, going out of town.

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you shouldn't have guns at all

woah woah woah woah gun controle leftist spotted.

^bruh lmao

Lol I guess Ben's notes won't help if you're 17 unless you're in a special ed program or something

I'm sorry but I'm only going to graduate with a 4.2 instead of a 5.0 like you, but that doesn't make me autistic :(

I thank benjamin for answering this shitty argument.

It's not a shitty argument at all, like some said on the first page, it's almost one sided (against me), but nobody is going to be making gun legislature anytime soon(You can thank Hillary for that one)

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Exactly what is Switzerland doing right that their homicide rate is so much lower that the American homicide rate?

The Swiss aren't dicks

Also, I see no reason why you can't have guns as long as you have training and no criminal record

I think that it is not a gun problem and rather a culture problem. The carelessness of Americans is outrageous, and their stress can lead them to do crazy things. An armed populous can even deter crimes, but only tends to work if everyone is in on it. The left needs to realize that we don't need to adapt to the insane world we have created, we need to fix the insane world. The right needs to realize that not everything was perfect 200 years ago.