We don't have a gun and I don't want one in my house. I do believe in your right to bear arms though, so to each their own. My husband wants one. I find other ways to spend our money. 
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Nope, not allowed in my house!
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We have 2. We have to get a closet because the little locks aren't enough with baby around
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Nope. We have a BB we are trying to get rid of and dont know how that DH's brother conveniently left in DH's stuff, and he won't take it back.
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No way. Its just not for us.
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We don't have one. I don't want one. My husband thinks we should get one.
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I'm interested in taking some lessons, and at least knowing how to handle them. It's unlikely that we'll keep our own at this point.
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Tell your hubby that a gun in the home is 500 times more likely to be used on one of the occupants of the home than on an intruder! While I was a resident, I can't tell you the number of times that I saw a sibling who was shot by the other sibling. It's awful for everyone. Mom blames dad for having a gun and the shooter sibling feels awful because they were just playing around and had no idea it was loaded. It rips familys apart.
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We do not like guns. I REALLY do not like guns. But we will have a gun eventually at our new house. It will be keep in a locked basement, in a locked room and in a fingerprint safe. @Mrs. Jacks: this is exactly why I do not want to keep a gun in the house. But I also think that's why you never keep a gun loaded! Or give your kids an opportunity to get to the gun.
We also plan to learn how to use a gun. I just think in this day and age you have to be prepared.
Trust me, I've struggled with this for about 8 years to get to this point where I'm OK with there being a gun in our house one day.
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@Minnie_Girl: It's so much FUN! I definitely recommend shooting--you don't have to own your own gun to shoot!
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My husband knows how to shoot and I wouldn't mind if wanted to go to the shooting range or go hunting. But he'd have to find somewhere else to keep the gun. It's not going to live in our house!
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@Mrs. Jacks: amen!!
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nope! i'm glad i know how to shoot one.... if i remember.
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We have a shotgun.
A woman in my city was home alone when someone broke into her house with the intent to rape and kill her. She shot the intruder 6 times and killed his ass. -
My dad has offerred us some family pieces on multiple occasions, but I doubt we'll ever take him up on it. I grew up around guns, and my family is very into target practice and hunting, but I'm not comfortable having guns in my house. My kids can learn gun safety and target shooting when they visit grandma and grandpa.
@Mrs. Jacks: This happended to a family we grew up with and it was devestating. The parents never healed from the loss of their son; and the brother ended up committing suicide a few years later over the guilt of accidentally killing his brother. It was horrible.
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No gun at our home and no intention to ever have one.
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Yes, we have one that my dad gave us for safety reasons. We are actually supposed to go shooting sometime soon because I would like to know how to shoot it just in case.
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Absolutely not. Also, since I'm in Canada, it's pretty much a non-issue, unless you are a hunter (which we aren't).
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DH wants one but I do not.
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@Grace: just curious why is it a non issue bc you're in Canada?
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We have guns in the house. With DH's profession, its not really an option for us.
If you're going to have guns in the home, I think its important that you've educated yourself on safety and their use. We're also believers that guns shouldn't be stored hot.
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@regberadaisy: I think it's not part of the culture here, like it seems to be in the US. I was really shocked, the first time I went to the US and saw a store selling "liquor, tabacco and firearms". And we don't have the right to bear arms in our constitution, like you do. I've never heard anyone here discuss the pros and cons about having a gun in the house. People do have rifles and shotguns here for hunting though.
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No way!
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Oh yes. Definitely yes. Multiple. My husband likes to hunt and even without the ones for hunting we have other firearms for protection/collection. Our children will be taught from a very young age what a gun is, how to shoot one, how to handle one, how to respect one, etc. They are stored in locked gun safes which only we have the codes for.
Guns become more dangerous when people are scared of them and don't know how to properly handle one. Educating our kids from a young age, even if we didn't have guns in our house, is very important for us and should be for others as well. You might not want a gun in your own house but if your kids go somewhere there is a gun it's important they know what to do.
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Absolutely not. Like Grace, it's pretty much a non-issue here (Ireland).
I know the next door neighbours have at least one, as they like to hunt, but that is not really a pastime that's considered particularly acceptable here anymore. There's a significant historical context I won't bore you all with, suffice to say it was pretty much a class issue here over the last 150 years or so.DH would love a gun, loves everything about them, even if humans are the only creature he could ever imagine shooting:) - they're the only one that ever actually deserves it:) but I've vetoed it, full stop. Not under my roof.
Put it this way- shootings are so rare here that they make the national evening news. More guns would change that. -
We are very similar to @EEH. We have a shotgun, two handguns, a cross-bow and a compound bow. Prior to LO the shotgun resided under our bed in case of an intruder. When we purchased the handguns my requirement was that we also purchase a safe to keep all guns. The compromise with DH was that the safe is located in our bedroom for easy access. The bows are stored at our off-property storage unit also in locked cases.
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@eeh: I agree that education is the key to being able to have a gun in your home.
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@eeh: Well said!
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No guns!
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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.
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No freaking way.
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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.
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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.
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.
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We will & all of our children will be well versed in gun safety!
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 & that it ISN'T A TOY!
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We have 2. We keep them locked up though.
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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.
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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.
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@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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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