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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 10 11:12 pm Post subject:

Pilsbury wrote:

leaving a loaded gun in reach of children is very foolish...

Leaving a loaded gun anywhere seems pretty stupid to me.

T.G

Joined: 13 Sep 2009
Posts: 7280
Location: Somewhere you're not

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 10 12:45 pm Post subject:
how terribly sad - how easy to prevent and how awfully quick a little life ended

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
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Location: South West

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 10 1:20 pm Post subject:

That's the point really. No malice, just a moment of thoughtlessness and then a dreadful tragedy. It really is worthwhile to go through all your gun and ammunition storage from time to time, audit it for how safe it is, also consider things like hunting knives and open razors, things that fascinate children. Even when children can handle guns safely, they still haven't learned when to take 'em out and when to leave 'em in.

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Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

Wood child

Joined: 08 Jun 2010
Posts: 45

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 10 6:04 pm Post subject:
Is it me or is everyone round here welsh?

Wood child

Joined: 08 Jun 2010
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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 10 6:05 pm Post subject:
Oh, sorry to go off topic. Anyhow, why didn't the gun have a trigger lock? Basically a necessity with kids around.

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
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Location: South West

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 10 6:37 pm Post subject:

Wood child wrote:

is everyone round here welsh?

No.

Wood child

Joined: 08 Jun 2010
Posts: 45

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 11:19 am Post subject:
Another example. My old man used to have a hunting knife, it was HUGE. When I was born, he just got rid of it. Gave him the creeps.

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 11:28 am Post subject:
We are a shooting family, we have three gun cabinets and a seperate ammo box. When the boys were young we had three gun cabinets AND a trigger lock for every gun. A friend kept his loaded shotgun propped by the kitchen table 'ready'. My sons were NEVER allowed in his house. Cant believe how dangerous some people are around guns.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28238
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 11:50 am Post subject:
There are always a lot of argument about gun statistics, but I don't think the gun lobby has ever come close to arguing away the fact that a "ready" gun is a zillion times more likely to be the cause of something nasty rather than dealing with the crazed intruder etc.

john of wessex

Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Posts: 2130

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 1:32 pm Post subject:
The Scotish Executive has been argueing for control over air guns due to problems they are having with them - including a number of fatalities.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 4:09 pm Post subject:
No, were not all Welsh.... We have an airgun - its not lockedup, but the pellets are, and our 12 yr old, who is allowed to shoot if one of us is present, would never dream of just taking it.....its been well hammered into him the dangers....but to be honest, he has much more fun things to do... like chopping kindling with the axe (which he gets paid for). Poor family.

Midland Spinner

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 2931
Location: Under a green roof

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 10 4:09 pm Post subject:
I was always brought up to assume that any gun was loaded until proven otherwise and on this handy little poem: "Never, NEVER let a gun, pointed be at anyone"

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46245
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 10 5:17 pm Post subject:
unhappy care with owt dangeroos is good education is probably better than securing all hazards to prevent such things but secure is safe

bigpaul

Joined: 06 Mar 2012
Posts: 62
Location: North West Devon

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 12 5:04 pm Post subject:

[quote="Pilsbury:813256"]I know my air guns aren't locked up as I dont have a gun safe BUT my amunition is and there are no kids in the house, leaving a loaded gun in reach of children is very foolish, that said my sympathy is with the family, even the Father as its all to easy to become complacent with air weapons.[/quote) never leave a gun LOADED, if you leave a cocked break barrel airgun it could damage the spring, apart from the chance of it going off.

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 12 6:11 pm Post subject:
Yeah I know, and now I am a father my guns have trigger locks and the ammo is locked away, and little one is only 9 months but as I said, before I had no kids, now I do.

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