Funny, you would think they would follow their own advice.

My kids have been taught proper gun handling, and I figure if I can trust them around the kitchen knives, household chemicals, power tools, cookstove, welding equipment, lighters and gasoline cans, to say nothing of the fact that they, technically, have access to the car keys, I can trust them around firearms. Your choices may differ. None of them are anyone else’s business whatsoever. Simple enough?

I agree; it seems to me that if someone is smart enough to get into your gun safe, they’re smart enough to know how to load a gun, so why worry whether it is loaded or not?

Via LaPierre, who notes that enforcing existing laws and sentencing guidelines would actually help too.

Fixed.

I’m still not quite sure why something in a safe needs to also be unloaded and further locked. I actually do use gun locks (the chain type — whoever came up with the idea of trigger locks deserves a few hits with the common sense stick), but generally speaking if someone’s gotten through a safe’s specialized lock and rather hard core materials, I don’t exactly think they’re going to be defeated by some AWG 4 wire and a ten buck lock is going to stop them.

The rest of it’s normal idiocy, but at least the direction it’s coming from is obvious.

Translated: If you’re going to have a gun in your home, it should be unloaded and locked in a secure container. This new law will make that mandatory. Also, people shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun in your house because you’d never be able to open the safe and load it in time to use it properly.

Um…OK.