Clicky Poll: Guns in the home

Re: Clicky Poll: Guns in the home

• luckyinlove11902

  August 2011

  Just wanted to add the caveat that I would insist on going to the range and learning how to use it. DH has brought it up multiple times and that is what I tell him each time. He hasn't actively pursued it yet though so we don't have one.

  

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• PantsOffDanceOff

  August 2011

  Dh has several guns. When we have my little brothers over, we put them in places they cannot reach. When we have kids, we will need to discuss how we can safely keep them in the house.

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• jodippls

  August 2011

  I voted if DH wanted one. We have discussed it and will one day have one in out home for protection. I will, like Lucky said, insist on going to the range to learn how to shoot it.

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• ClaireDunphy

  August 2011

  I'm a special snowflake, DAMMIT!

  We have one but it's strictly for DH's job. If he didn't have his job, we wouldn't have the gun.

  ETA: We also have a second gun, but it's locked up & technically not ours. We're not even sure if it works. It's a gun that's been passed around DH's family & we just kinda got stuck with it.

  

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• Madisen

  August 2011

  ClaireDunphy:

  I'm a special snowflake, DAMMIT!

  We have one but it's strictly for DH's job. If he didn't have his job, we wouldn't have the gun.

  Not a special snowflake, the question clearly states "if not required for work". So you would fall under the last answer then.

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• cakenbake

  August 2011

  I will also offer that I was never comfortable with them because I grew up in a very gun-ignorant family. My mom is afraid of them, and still doesn't like the thought of it in our house, though she doesn't mind DH having it around for security.

  When I married DH, I knew I'd have to be ok with them. But he's smart about it and made sure to take me to the range, teach me how it works, etc. I'm the type that just has to know how something works and how to use it to be fine. 
  

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• Kristin&Kelly09 member

  August 2011

  We have 4 guns in our house.  One is a hand gun for protection and the rest are rifles DH uses for hunting.

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• Soon2BMrsSikes

  August 2011

  I used to be in the No way, no how camp. Now I'm in the haven't decided camp. Part of me wants to get one and learn how to use it and have it in the house for protection. Part of me doesn't trust myself with it, because I am so paranoid/anxious.

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• ClaireDunphy

  August 2011

  Madisen:

  ClaireDunphy:

  I'm a special snowflake, DAMMIT!

  We have one but it's strictly for DH's job. If he didn't have his job, we wouldn't have the gun.

  Not a special snowflake, the question clearly states "if not required for work". So you would fall under the last answer then.

  But I wannnnnnna be a special snowflake.

   

  

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• ClaireDunphy

  August 2011

  luckyinlove11902:

  Just wanted to add the caveat that I would insist on going to the range and learning how to use it. DH has brought it up multiple times and that is what I tell him each time. He hasn't actively pursued it yet though so we don't have one.

  ITA with you. DH has taken me to the range to teach me how to use his. It's actually a lot of fun.

  

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• Madisen

  August 2011

  cakenbake:

  I will also offer that I was never comfortable with them because I grew up in a very gun-ignorant family. My mom is afraid of them, and still doesn't like the thought of it in our house, though she doesn't mind DH having it around for security.

  When I married DH, I knew I'd have to be ok with them. But he's smart about it and made sure to take me to the range, teach me how it works, etc. I'm the type that just has to know how something works and how to use it to be fine. 
  

  Does not having a gun in the home or being against guns in the home make someone gun-ignorant?

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• cakenbake

  August 2011

  Madisen:

  cakenbake:

  I will also offer that I was never comfortable with them because I grew up in a very gun-ignorant family. My mom is afraid of them, and still doesn't like the thought of it in our house, though she doesn't mind DH having it around for security.

  When I married DH, I knew I'd have to be ok with them. But he's smart about it and made sure to take me to the range, teach me how it works, etc. I'm the type that just has to know how something works and how to use it to be fine. 
  

  Does not having a gun in the home or being against guns in the home make someone gun-ignorant?

  I was trying to figure out how to say that. I just meant very uneducated about them in general. My mom's just plain afraid of them and refuses to even take DH up on his offer to teach her, though she likes him having it around.
  

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• LXLX

  August 2011

  H got a gun six months or a year ago that he uses when he and his friends go to the shooting range. Its in a fingerprint gun safe which is in a larger safe in our house. I am personally anti-gun, but I'm not unreasonable.I am however very, very opposed to any gun not completely secured in a locked safe in every.single.case of gun ownership. Loaded or not. For children's safety, but also I think about when our house was broken into. If we had had a gun just lying around, it absolutely would have been stolen and then some punk kid lacking morals enough to break into someone's house would be running around with a gun. I would hate if I had contributed to that potential violence and I can't imagine running the risk.

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• chinchilla fiesta member

  

  August 2011

  I grew up in the country and all my friends hunted.  My grandfather was also a sharp shooter in the military.  I learned gun safety at an early age and have no issue with them... however...  I'm not comfortable having them in my home at this point in time because my (and DH's) lack of knowledge of gun handling.

  With proper training I would be fine with it.
  

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• jenhappy

  August 2011

  Lucille Bluth:

  H got a gun six months or a year ago that he uses when he and his friends go to the shooting range. Its in a fingerprint gun safe which is in a larger safe in our house. I am personally anti-gun, but I'm not unreasonable.
  
  I am however very, very opposed to any gun not completely secured in a locked safe in every.single.case of gun ownership. Loaded or not. For children's safety, but also I think about when our house was broken into. If we had had a gun just lying around, it absolutely would have been stolen and then some punk kid lacking morals enough to break into someone's house would be running around with a gun. I would hate if I had contributed to that potential violence and I can't imagine running the risk.

  Are you against them for home protection? Just curious, since I often wonder how realisticly helpful a gun would be in a home invasion when it's super locked-up. That said, ppl with kids obviously need to secure them. Seems like it would be a difficult balance to strike.

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• Madisen

  August 2011

  jenhappy:

  Lucille Bluth:

  H got a gun six months or a year ago that he uses when he and his friends go to the shooting range. Its in a fingerprint gun safe which is in a larger safe in our house. I am personally anti-gun, but I'm not unreasonable.
  
  I am however very, very opposed to any gun not completely secured in a locked safe in every.single.case of gun ownership. Loaded or not. For children's safety, but also I think about when our house was broken into. If we had had a gun just lying around, it absolutely would have been stolen and then some punk kid lacking morals enough to break into someone's house would be running around with a gun. I would hate if I had contributed to that potential violence and I can't imagine running the risk.

  Are you against them for home protection? Just curious, since I often wonder how realisticly helpful a gun would be in a home invasion when it's super locked-up. That said, ppl with kids obviously need to secure them. Seems like it would be a difficult balance to strike.

  This is exactly my argument against having them for home protection.  It seems like you'd need easy access if you have one for that reason and I'm not willing to have one within eacy access with kids around.  Thankfully, DH and I feel the same way about it. 

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• LXLX

  August 2011

  Madisen:

  jenhappy:

  Lucille Bluth:

  H got a gun six months or a year ago that he uses when he and his friends go to the shooting range. Its in a fingerprint gun safe which is in a larger safe in our house. I am personally anti-gun, but I'm not unreasonable.
  
  I am however very, very opposed to any gun not completely secured in a locked safe in every.single.case of gun ownership. Loaded or not. For children's safety, but also I think about when our house was broken into. If we had had a gun just lying around, it absolutely would have been stolen and then some punk kid lacking morals enough to break into someone's house would be running around with a gun. I would hate if I had contributed to that potential violence and I can't imagine running the risk.

  Are you against them for home protection? Just curious, since I often wonder how realisticly helpful a gun would be in a home invasion when it's super locked-up. That said, ppl with kids obviously need to secure them. Seems like it would be a difficult balance to strike.

  This is exactly my argument against having them for home protection.  It seems like you'd need easy access if you have one for that reason and I'm not willing to have one within eacy access with kids around.  Thankfully, DH and I feel the same way about it. 

  Exactly this.  And I don't even have kids.
  

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