Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Guns and kids

[Marty Roberts (MartyR]

On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 09:08 AM, 
cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org wrote:

> Just because we all have some dangerous things in our houses doesn't
> entail that everything which is dangerous is, necessarily, ok  to have.
> Many people leave their homes unlocked in coho neighborhoods. With kids
> entering places - not necessarily when anyone is there, and with their
> insatiable curiosity - having guns doesn't seem safe to me.  Even 
> people
> who are perfectly intelligent and logical, could forget to lock a 
> cabinet
> which has guns in it; forget to put the gun in a place which is
> sufficiently out of the way; forget to lock the safety mechanism on the
> gun...  Forgetting  is a  simple, normal, human thing - and indeed very
> many people in this country die/get injured in gun accidents.

Hear, hear!  I just heard a story at a coho meeting today of one of our 
 little girls that was caught going into her mom's jewelry drawer to 
show her friends - two other little girls - in a place that she was 
forbidden to go.  She lied to her mom to cover up that she had 
disobeyed the rules.  what if there had been a gun in there?

Marty at Two Acre Wood, Sebastopol, CA


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