Guns.

[mothwing]

Ok, people. Imagine you are a gun enthusiast, owned guns, and wanted to keep them in your house.

Now, pick your option of choice for gun storage from these two.


           

Made your choice? Awesome!

And now for storing ammunition. What looks like the sensible option here?

          

If you chose the first option in both cases, you ought to meet the father of last year's German school shooter Tim, who seems to have similar ideas about safety as you do. His son surprisingly got hold of both gun and ammunition and became, well, a school shooter with them.

I grew up in a house with guns. My mother is a hunter. My grandfather was a hunter. My father is a handgun shooter. So is my brother. Me and possibly my grandmother are the only ones who never fired one of the guns we have in the house. So, I understand the possible reasons as to why people would want to own guns and keep them in the house - while sports shooters could well store their guns at their local shooting range, this is very impractical for hunters. So, owning guns? Yes, I get it, in spite of having a hell of a lot of respect for those things.

What I really, really don't understand is why people would be so goddamn fucking stupid as to just leave their guns lying around the house.

There is just no sane reason for this kind of bullshit. Burglar in the house? You'd be at home and head straight for your sock drawer? Really?

It's so much more likely that you're not at home and arrive to find an armed burglar in your house who's found a surprise in said sock drawer.

Another likely option: your offspring injures themselves or others with the gun they found somehow. As much sympathy as I have for the parents of the school shooter - as they must be in a horrible situation themselves - I thoroughly approve of that gun owner facing charges for not storing his guns according to the bloody fucking regulations. 

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[krakelwok.livejournal.com]

I feel so much more secure knowing our fearless leaders promptly addressed the issue by doing ingenious things like slapping bigger age restriction stickers on computer game boxes.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

That'll learn them not to aim IRL guns at IRL targets! Or is that only under the age of 18? I'm all confused.