At 15 I didn't need a key. I had my own guns. My Dad gave me a gun and also gave me a very explicit safety course, and a very, very explicit directive as to what would happened if I deviated even kidding from those standards. He and the local government made it mandatory that I attend a safety course. Our high school teacher mentioned safety. At 17 years old I was in the Navy and received more safety instructions. At 22 I was a part time police Officer. Our department had the FBI come into town to teach us far advanced safety. It's call culture. It's the culture I grew up in. It started with my Dad. Lets start working on the right culture instead of the choice of weapons. Lets start the culture with the Dads. Oh!!! I forgot no Dads. A few days ago, not far from where I live, a man just threw his daughter off a bridge. Lord have mercy, if only the goverment had taken his gun away, that would never have happened.
1) My dad was a cop. I knew before 15 how to safely use every gun in the home, although I agreed with my dad that there was absolutely no need for a fifteen year old kid to own a gun. The trigger locks and gun cabinet were primarily to keep my 3 year old sister from doing something tragic.
2) Yes, yes, we know you're a veteran, as if that magically makes you the expert on why every man, woman, and child should be armed to the teeth at all times.
3) Funny how I have never once claimed that the government should take guns away, and have actually opposed that idea every time it actually comes up, and yet every time hidebound neo-fascist reactionaries like you and Blade start vomiting forth your crap you accuse me of wanting just that. Is actual discussion so difficult for you that you must resort to a strawman every single time?
No one but lunatic conservatives trying to score points off a straw man are making the argument that gun control would have prevented that man from killing his daughter. The only real arguments I've seen are on whether he's mentally ill or just a criminally evil asshole (or both), but why should right-wing neo-fascists like you let anything as minor as truth get in the way of a good liberal-bashing?
