If you don't own a firearm and your child encounters one, it may very well be under uncontrolled circumstances.
I had a friend who drilled gun safety into their kids, though they hated guns.
One day their kids were playing at a neighbor's house, 6 or so kids, no adult present (sleeping in another room), and one of the neighbor kids brought out the father's gun to "play with."
My friend's kids did the right thing and left, notifying an adult. They said later they felt physically uncomfortable being in the room with the children handling the gun due to their conditioning.
Right as my friend arrived at the neighbor's house there was a shot. The gun had been unintentionally discharged while they played with it. None of the 3 kid's who had stayed was injured, but with 3 more crowding around the odds wouldn't have been better. As it was the only casualty was a refrigerator.
You can only control your environment, so teach your kids to do the safe thing.
Submitted November 09, 2014 at 09:35AM by fishycow http://ift.tt/1oxpvYU LifeProTips
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