IMHO, wow looks like my thread started a lot of people thinking. Glad to see it. I dont know where you can find STATS on if a gun in a home will make a child's safety better or worse. You can try Richard Poe's book "7 myths of Gun Control" (Great book by the way) and John Lott's "More Guns Less Crime"

I can give you instances where they were beneficial to a childs safety [b]AND[/b]where there was a case whereas a man attacked a family where the parents were out. A man broke in and killed one of the kids with a pitchfork. All of the kids were properly trained on HOW to use a firearm, but with all the gun safety measures and trigger locks, one of the kids could not unlock the gun. She even said "Dad, I could have shot him, I had a clean shot"

SAD.

However, we can banter scenarios back and forth for both pros and cons on having guns in the house. All I know is if (and I hope that is NEVER) someone breaks into my house with intent to kill, I would rather have the memory in my brain forever that I took a life than the memory of a family I once had.