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If there are guns near a child, it is the parents' responsibility to teach the child about how to be safe around a gun.
I'm not the type of person to think guns aren't dangerous.. they are.. but only when used unsafely.
If a child kills themselves because of a gun... it is not the gun's fault. It is the gun's owner's fault for being irresponsible with their gun. I was taught about how to be safe around guns all the time as a child. I would catch my dad cleaning his guns and he'd always ask me, "Do you ever touch these?" me: "No.." him:"If you ever find one.. do you touch it?" me: "no!" him: "what do you do with it?" me: "nothing.. I run and tell you or mommy." him: "What might happen if you touch it at all?" me: "I might get hurt!"
Guns don't hurt the kids.. the owners' inability to deal with having a gun and keeping the kids safe from hurting themselves with it does.
As for carrying guns around in public.. I don't see any need for doing that nowadays in the US. But, in some neighborhoods and towns.. it may still be neededto help keep their property and family safe. People who own a gun for safety must be taught not to try to kill a person with it as a defense.. but instead aim somewhere where it'd just injure the criminal enough to stop them long enough for the paramedics and police to arrive.
Nowadays we have tazers and I feel those are dangerous in the wrong hands, too. Not as harmful as a gun may be.. but still VERY harmful.
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