I'd just like to somehow see it harder for people with mental illness to aquire guns. How I don't know, but clearly mentally ill people and guns is a disastrous mix. It often comes out in the aftermath that they had some kind of mental illness, and yet had they had NO problem getting guns.
I was raised in a house WITH guns, I was taught about them, I have no great interest in them. I was taught respect of them, we have a single riffle in the house that we have used on predators. My husband would LOVE to get a handgun, but I asked him to wait till my youngest (9) is either older or out of the house. The 9 yr old has too much of an interest IN guns in general for my liking. I KNOW of a hand full of kids that have suffered injuries or death due to guns. Most of those WERE taught about the guns.
One of the cases I know of from personal experience, someone i had worked with:
Dad was an avid gun enthusist. He taught his son about them and gun safety. Kept them locked up in a gun safe. Son was 15, had friend over, dad was sleeping. Son took key to dads gunsafe, he and friend were messing around with a shotgun I believe. son shot friend in leg. Father immeadiatly woke up and ran to sound. friend was shot in leg. Dad called 911 and applied a turnicut.
Friend was stabilzed at local hospital and airlifted to big hospital. In the end he will walk with limp for rest of his life, and his parents feel lucky. The dad that I worked with, prayed EVERY day for the friend. He also prayed that the friend's parents wouldn't sue him and he would lose his house. In the end the friend has a limp for the rest of his life, but the friendship survived. I found that to be an inspiration to me.
I asked dad what advice could he give me as I had a 5 yr old and baby at the time. He said if he had it to do over again he wouldn't have guns in house with kids. I took his advice for the most part. This man had done EVERYTHING to avoid this situation happening. He had guns locked up, he did NOT keep them loaded. He had the only key on his keyring.Didn;t matter, and in discussing it with my husband I could find no way to make his safety precautions any better.
I am not anti gun but I do think it should be impossible for kids and mentally ill people to get them. as of now there doesn't seem to be any barrariers to mentally ill getting guns just felons.
I was raised in a house WITH guns, I was taught about them, I have no great interest in them. I was taught respect of them, we have a single riffle in the house that we have used on predators. My husband would LOVE to get a handgun, but I asked him to wait till my youngest (9) is either older or out of the house. The 9 yr old has too much of an interest IN guns in general for my liking. I KNOW of a hand full of kids that have suffered injuries or death due to guns. Most of those WERE taught about the guns.
One of the cases I know of from personal experience, someone i had worked with:
Dad was an avid gun enthusist. He taught his son about them and gun safety. Kept them locked up in a gun safe. Son was 15, had friend over, dad was sleeping. Son took key to dads gunsafe, he and friend were messing around with a shotgun I believe. son shot friend in leg. Father immeadiatly woke up and ran to sound. friend was shot in leg. Dad called 911 and applied a turnicut.
Friend was stabilzed at local hospital and airlifted to big hospital. In the end he will walk with limp for rest of his life, and his parents feel lucky. The dad that I worked with, prayed EVERY day for the friend. He also prayed that the friend's parents wouldn't sue him and he would lose his house. In the end the friend has a limp for the rest of his life, but the friendship survived. I found that to be an inspiration to me.
I asked dad what advice could he give me as I had a 5 yr old and baby at the time. He said if he had it to do over again he wouldn't have guns in house with kids. I took his advice for the most part. This man had done EVERYTHING to avoid this situation happening. He had guns locked up, he did NOT keep them loaded. He had the only key on his keyring.Didn;t matter, and in discussing it with my husband I could find no way to make his safety precautions any better.
I am not anti gun but I do think it should be impossible for kids and mentally ill people to get them. as of now there doesn't seem to be any barrariers to mentally ill getting guns just felons.
