We don’t need new laws, but you do need to you lock your guns up
I don’t think we need anymore laws put on the books, but after all of the emotion about the CT shooting, many people have come to the conclusion that mental health issues are serious issues and the mother of the shooter was partially responsible for the crime. If you know you have an immature or unstable family members, you have to lock your guns up or move them out of the house. There are always people in your family or in your circle of friends that you should limit your involvement with when it comes to showing them your firearms. There as been much said about how some anti-gun newspapers or politicians are trying to announce who has firearms and that it a dangerous precedent to set.
Not only are you divulging personal information you are also announcing which houses the bad guys might want to stake out for burglaries. There is no reason to not lock up yours guns and we highly recommend gunvault safes for those that conceal carry and need daily access to a firearm. These safes are normally in the $100 price range and can be bolt under your bed or in a hard to see area. Biometric safes can give you more security and prevent family members from learning a code. There are always pros and cons to any item but these are something any firearm instructor or NRA member should urge gun owners to use.
After Sept 11th and the Hurrican Katrina News cyles, many people have opened their eyes to the fact that their is evil in our generation and that any one of us could face it in our home or our way to work. There have been a lot of people opening their eyese to gun owner ship. I can’t tell you the times I’ve heard women say that they “will never allow a gun in their house” and how that mindset has been disapating ever since the Hurrican Katrina havoc. I had a liberal female friend who was willing to atleast come to a range with me say that “just the existance of a firearm in a home is a deterant, you don’t even have to fire it to prevent bad people from coming onto your property. Although bad people come in different flavors, most of them will skip your house if you spray paint a warning on your front door informing looters that you will shoot them if they come near you.