https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:29:10 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-136363 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:38:38 +0000 howjoyful 136363@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am not a gun person at all but the hubs is and all of his family, we live in the mountains so hunting and sport shooting is all around. We do have guns in the house (he had them way before we met) but they will definitely be relocated and secured even more once the baby is here. The hubs family is very serious about gun education, so the playing around with guns is not a concern to me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-135584 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:38:46 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 135584@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: I don't think you are going to find a reputable source that "boils it down". That's the problem with academic public health. It doesn't sound sexy. On the other hand, there are plenty of NRA press releases ready for general public digestion, but when you look at the source material you find either 1) a flawed study or 2) a misinterpretation of the study. The first article touches on one of those instances.</p> <p>I'll try and find something light, but I don't think I'm going to be successful :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-135565 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:32:09 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 135565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, not for us. Being Canadian, I couldn't get one unless I plan on getting a hunting license as well, but its not for me.<br /> Living in Muskoka, I'm pretty amazed at how many guns people have though. Even their ATVs have gun racks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-135561 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:29:51 +0000 daniellemybelle 135561@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Yes. It's not as if it's a daily activity, but I have been around for it multiple times since they got the guns less than a year ago, and we don't visit that often. Most recently, my uncle who is ex-military and big into guns was over, and my stepdad, uncle and two brothers went outside to shoot cans with my stepdad's rifle. If it sounds kind of redneck, that's because it is. :)</p> <p>@Mrs. Jacks: Thank you so much! Unfortunately I think these references might be too academic for my mom. Not saying that as an insult to her by any means - she's very smart - I was just hoping for something a little more boiled down, but still from a reputable source... though to be honest, I'm not sure I can convince her with anything.</p> <p>I really have to not concern myself too much with their decision to have guns and shoot them for recreational purposes (they don't hunt and realistically don't need home protection). I worry about their safety but it is their household and their choice. When we have kids though, it will not fly whatsoever. Like I said, in the safe at all times when the kids are there, or we will leave. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-135366 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:54:02 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 135366@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: I've found a book link with a very rigorous analysis that says there is no net deterrent effect of owning a gun on intruders and may be associated with a higher burglery rate (pg 98):<br /> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;id=Q05iNEB7egQC&#038;oi=fnd&#038;pg=PA74&#038;dq=likelihood+of+gun+being+used+on+homes+occupant+rather+than+intruder&#038;ots=Mj4Y84sbJh&#038;sig=34kgPbNCyhI3KoYAbl8BF1YUSuI#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;id=Q05iNEB7egQC&#038;oi=fnd&#038;pg=PA74&#038;dq=likelihood+of+gun+being+used+on+homes+occupant+rather+than+intruder&#038;ots=Mj4Y84sbJh&#038;sig=34kgPbNCyhI3KoYAbl8BF1YUSuI#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false</a></p> <p>Here is the seminal paper (done by one of my professors) on increased risk of gun violence that occurs in gun owners. (A relative risk of 2 means a 100% in risk).<br /> <a href="http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.87.6.974" rel="nofollow">http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.87.6.974</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-135347 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:40:05 +0000 mrbee 135347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: Your parents have target practice in the backyard when you visit them? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-135341 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:33:56 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 135341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: Something I heard in Public Health School but I'll try to rustle a reference up :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-135309 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:17:09 +0000 daniellemybelle 135309@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: I'm trying to find the source for that so I can share it with my mom. :) Any ideas? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-135307 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:15:59 +0000 daniellemybelle 135307@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We never will. We both really dislike guns. However, my parents have guns and we are going to have to deal with this eventually. They never had them when I was growing up but they got them recently, and it really bothers us. DH &amp; I plan to buy my folks a gun safe of their choosing, and will only have our kids at their house if the guns are in the safe. If they insist on having target practice in the backyard while we're over with the kids, we'll go home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-135248 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:42:27 +0000 meaganceleste 135248@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a gun, but we keep the magazine out of it. When we have kids, we'll keep the gunlock in and probably store it in our safe. </p> <p>I think its important to familiarize your children with guns if you're going to keep them in your home. When my siblings and I were young, my dad took us in the backyard and let us shoot targets with a low caliber rifle and took us to a gun safety class.</p> <p>In Texas, lots of folks have guns, but I know that isn't the case everywhere, so opinions are different. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-135218 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:19:06 +0000 lavender 135218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a couple of rifles and shot guns. DH was/is an avid skeet shooter (he used to compete!) . All of ours are in a gun safe, locked away in the basement, and unloaded. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-134772 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:44:11 +0000 Ree723 134772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not a chance in the world will we ever have a gun in our house - DH is on the same page, perhaps even slightly more anti-guns than I am. Fortunately, guns are outlawed here in Australia (except for farmers to keep the roos off their property) so it's not really an issue. Gun crimes make headlines on the national news here, that's how infrequently gun crime occurs and that's how I prefer it.</p> <p>I grew up in a house with guns as my dad's profession required it, but I always hated it. I don't have a fear of guns, I just think there is absolutely no point to them and the less we have in the world, the better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-134661 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:41:08 +0000 MsLipGloss 134661@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep. More than one. We both grew up with them, and with a respect for them. And as someone who has personally defended her apartment with a shotgun, that won't change. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-134563 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:16:27 +0000 birdofafeather 134563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH grew up with them in a safe in his dad's large garage outside, but I don't feel comfortable around them. We also live in a small place and would feel safer with them NOT in the house. we may revisit when we buy a house and would have a dedicated space for them. but that's YEARS away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-134552 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:09:06 +0000 Mrs. Tutu 134552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Never have, never will! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-134259 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:45:22 +0000 Shutterbug 134259@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not in a million years. It's not that common around here, at least not in my circle. I've never shot a gun, never even held one, and neither has DH. I agree with @Mrs. Jacks: I feel that the risks far outweigh the benefits. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-134211 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:57:56 +0000 LuLu Mom 134211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have hunting riffles in our house, I grew up with a house full of guns and I knew growing up never to touch one without my dad being there and they were never loaded/always locked up anyways. </p> <p>My husbands are locked up and in a safe which will be the only way we continue to have them in our house with children. Our children will take gun safety, whether they want hunt or not, we did and I am thankful for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house/page/2#post-134198 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:52:49 +0000 regberadaisy 134198@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjyw: which one do you have? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-134189 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:45:21 +0000 banana 134189@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, no guns for us. I think I would actually be more apprehensive about having one in the house than about an intruder. It's just not for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-134178 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:38:16 +0000 shinystraps 134178@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have guns in our home and while they're never stored loaded, anytime my husband is gone overnight for work, you can bet that there's a handgun next to my bed with a bullet in the chamber.</p> <p>It's a minimum of 5 minutes from a police officer to my home - where I grew up, it was a minimum of 30 minutes. I don't take safety lightly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-134155 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:27:24 +0000 looch 134155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: That's interesting, because where I live, most households keep a gun as military service is required for men. They're always kept locked and ammunition is separate. I think in this case, it's totally different because there is such intense training involved.</p> <p>We don't have a weapon in the house, my husband is finished with his mandatory service, so he turned in his rifle years ago. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-134150 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:23:58 +0000 SusieQ 134150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way will we ever keep a gun in the house. The risk that anything will happen when a gun is stored properly in the house is small, but the consequences are too great to justify it for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-133535 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:54:51 +0000 mrsjyw 133535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH has 1, it's locked away in biometric safe that only he can access. I'm a non-gun person, but DH is; so our compromise was on the 1, no more than that and we def both wanted the biometric safe to keep locked up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-133406 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:27:33 +0000 His Barista 133406@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have 2. We keep them locked up though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-133318 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:48:31 +0000 runsyellowlites 133318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We will &amp; all of our children will be well versed in gun safety! </p> <p>We intend to teach DS this coming year, he's 8, so that even if he came into contact with a gun at a friends house he would know not to handle it &amp; that it ISN'T A TOY! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-133299 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:27:48 +0000 lemondrop 133299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, not necessary- we have an attack cat! Just kidding, but neither of us are comfortable with more than a bb or pellet gun in our house. </p> <p>We had guns in our house growing up- I cringe when I think of how they weren't locked up or anything. My dad taught us how to handle a gun and how to shoot, but I didn't enjoy working with the more hardcore guns. I do want to teach how to handle and shoot bb and pellet guns when kids are much older. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-133257 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:51:47 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 133257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have one because I'm too paranoid to have one. But almost all of my friends do because they grew up with them (hunting). It's a very common thing around here. I think it just depends on how you're raised. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-133222 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:07:09 +0000 kml636 133222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No freaking way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-133201 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:18:51 +0000 PBandBaseball 133201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't want one in the house and the hubs has never mentioned wanting one. I don't feel comfortable around guns even though I had a friend take me to the gun range on several occasions. I just don't think it's a good idea for us to have one but I believe that people should have the right to make that decision for themselves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-youdo-you-keep-a-gun-in-the-house#post-132996 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:39:27 +0000 autumnlove 132996@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No guns! </p>