Scary story.
My kids know not to touch a firearm with dad or grandpa. However, they also can ask I will let them see and handle any firearm. They know that if they touch without permission they are in big trouble, and if they find a gun outside or at another house they are not to touch and they are to leave.
They are now six and we have all been to the local gun shop to see a nice shiny Ruger 10/22 which will someday be their first collective rifle, as it was mine.
O.K., you get the picture.
So, one day they are having a friend over. I am in my room holding an AR. The kid, a good and orderly kid, runs into my room. See me with the gun, yells "cool" and runs at me and grabs at the gun.
Wow. Now he lives with just his mother and has never seen a real gun, much less ever talked gun safety. But scary about the attraction of guns to little boys.
My two boys came running in on his heals. They saw the whole thing. I immediately asked them what happened, and they correctly told me what their friend did wrong and what the rules are.
I guess the purpose of this post is just to remind everyone that they can educate their own kids, but must think about all the other kids whose parents, for what ever reason, fail to teach their children gun safety.
On a side note, I always have felt that the conservative, like me, often fail to teach sex education to their kids thus putting them at risk. And the liberals fail to teach gun safety, probably putting their kids at even greater risk.