re: NPR: If You Have Kids & A Gun In The House, You Are A Bad Parent

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but i think we should keep in the context and timeframe which it was written.... all they had at the time was muzzleloaders... so you should be able to own all the fricking muzzleloaders you want, but nothing else.... ban everything else.

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Sooooo.... With this train of thought.

At the time, all the founders had for transportation were their feet and horses. Time to throw out all the cars.

At that time, all the founders had for medicine was the bare minimum and home remedies. Time to throw out all of modern medicine.

At that time, all the founders had in terms of press was either spoken word, or print media sent out very very rarely. Time to throw out all our phones and computers

Deal?

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I think if you have small children in the house and don't have guns locked up, then you're a bad parent. Come at me.

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There were a lot of bad parents in the 50s, 60s, 70s when I grew up. My family, both grandparents, all my other relatives, and all of my friends had multiple firearms in the house never locked away, the gun safe is a fairly recent development, don't remember ever seeing one until maybe the 1980s. Often the guns were in a open rack or glass case in the living room. Pickup trucks with gun racks in the back window with a rifle or shotgun were very common even at my high school in the student's parking lot, today they would be calling in SWAT. In my home town I don't recall there ever being a accident, I guess as kids we were raised differently then.

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The Second Amendment does not allow you to own guns.

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Exactly. Just as the first doesn't guarantee one a platform, or the use of someone else's platform for your speech.