Food for thought: I came home the other night, found various parts of my reloading stuff in dis-array. I question my 13yo son, knows nothing about it. I investigate a little more and ask again. His response is No Idea.

I check the security cameras, eventually found the photos I needed. Son took a couple of his buddies into my garage, got a soda, left his buddies there alone while he went to the bathroom back in the house. The friends were messing around with all my "stuff".

I'm not happy. Can't trust him or his friends anymore. Had to lock everything up fearing they would decide to play with something.

I trust my kids, but not their friends.

I usually have a .38 available when I'm not home, even though they don't actively know it's available, I'm sure in an emergency and something came up, they would go looking for it, find it and use it as needed. (using fear as the motive of use) They know where I normally keep the .38, so I'm sure it would come to mind that "Maybe Dad's gun is available" when fear sets in.

But now I've had to lock it up too just because the friends who were not supposed to be in or around the house were.