Safe Storage?

[Irving]

Ray's initial suggestion is a good one because it brings the situation a bit out of the hysteria stage of the worry and provides an avenue for true understanding of how a safe serves its purpose without any emotional dialogue that might otherwise sink the conversion further.

We all know the struggle with this kind of thing.

[Great-Kazoo]

Move the safe to the garage. OR possibly seek counseling, as there seems to be (as mentioned) another issue at play.

[UncleDave]

I agree with Ray. You need to get her thinking out of hysterical mom mode and into critical thinking mode. Having her try to break into the safe is a good start. Maybe follow that up with family education on weapons discipline. When I was growing up no one had a good safe. Some people had a locking glass front cabinet, but that was the extent of it. I would have been beaten body if I touched one without permission. The real issue is children who are reassured without respect. First for parents, then teachers, then law enforcement, etc. Those are the people who become problems, not their access to weapons. Those are always around it does not matter if it is at your house, a friend's house, or on the street.

[ray1970]

Move the safe to the garage.

Imagine how much trouble he would be in if he did that and then she couldn?t get her car in the garage anymore.

[Irving]

In my personal experience, this initial stage will pass, but each event it will come back stronger and slightly different each time. After the Florida one I found out we were the new owners of 8 AR500 chest plates that went into backpacks for a while. The safe storage issue was brought up after this one as well.

So buckle up, keep your cool, and we wish you the best.

[ray1970]

Uncle Dave makes very valid points.

I?ve always said that the general lack of discipline is the driving factor for the way society has been heading for decades.

Probably from birth there were unsecured firearms within easy reach for me but there was no way in hell I was going near them for fear of the repercussions.

Parents these days are too worried about their kids liking them. I didn?t like my parents until I was well out of high school and smart enough to reflect back on how much they must have loved me to make tough decisions that I know they didn?t want to make.

[RobertB]

Simple solutions.
A-Change combo of safe, your the only one that knows it.
B-Raise your children properly.


If your worried about your own children breaking in to your safe and stealing your own property the problem lies with the parents, not the children.

Nobody knows it for A, and I am sure I am doing B. For your latter, I don't necessarily agree. I think that parents guide you a certain way (uhh...you hope, right? I've seen those who don't seem to do anything at all) but at the end of the day, we make our own choices. Certainly, you can't control other people's actions.

Ray, we do get along mostly well and things are pretty cooperative, but this is definitely a sticking point. Maybe I can just kick it down the road a bit. Hell, the boys are only 4 and 6. I teach the youngest - the wild one - about gun safety with his little sucker-dart pistol and take it from him if he shoots or points it at anyone. The older has no apparent interest.

[.455_Hunter]

If the only thing keeping your kid from shooting up their school is your locked gun cabinet, you have far more serious issues that need immediate action.