Semi-Weekly Discussion Thread - December 16, 2024

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INTRODUCTION

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It is my hope that we can foster a sense of community through the Discussion Thread.

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Previous Discussion Thread

[u/psunavy03]

I’ll keep saying it until I’m blue in the face. If a minor misuses a firearm, somewhere there exists its adult owner, who needs to be consistently and reliably held accountable for failing to exercise positive control over their shit.

[u/Vanderwoolf → u/psunavy03]

The maddening thins is just how easy it is to safely store them. Mine is locked in a closet without the bolt, the bolt is locked in our fire safe different room. Even if my kid managed to get their hands on the gun, it's no more dangerous than if they found the leftover steel pipe in our laundry room.

[u/Spurgeoniskindacool → u/psunavy03]

I was at a family thanksgiving gathering and found a handgun just sitting in a metal wire basket. Found out it belonged to my brother in law. There are five kids around who could have grabbed it. When confronted he said "it's not like they could cock it, it takes a to much strength". And then he left it there again the next day and ended up leaving it over night on accident. 

I'm pro the legal right to own a gun, but I don't think he is mature enough to own a gun...

[u/Vanderwoolf → u/Spurgeoniskindacool]

I probably would've hidden it somewhere and let him freak out about it for a while.

[u/arrowfan624 → u/psunavy03]

Every reasonable gun owner should support that.

[u/oh_how_droll → u/arrowfan624]

I agree as a cultural norm, for sure, but it's hard for me to support it being made into a law. Maybe it's just because I live in California, but I feel like it would be all too easy for safe to be defined either in the law or in practice as something not far off "three separate individually non-functional parts, each sealed in a solid block of lucite".

[u/Mal5341 → u/arrowfan624]

You'd think so. But I've been accused of using woke narrative talking points for saying every responsible gun owner should buy a safe and enroll their families in gun safety courses.

Tribalism has reached its zenith.

[u/Soarin-Flyin → u/arrowfan624]

Unfortunately the irrational ones will scream “shall not be infringed!”

[u/Viper_ACR → u/Soarin-Flyin]

So I've brought this up and that's largely the only response I got. And I'm definitely one of the gun nuts here