Gun Responsibility or Gun Control; What are Your True Feelings?
What is the difference between the two?
Gun control (or firearms regulation) is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. Most countries have a restrictive firearm guiding policy, with only a few legislations being categorized as permissive.
Gun Responsibility — there is no definitive definition of this particular term other than the set regulations and laws.
Many websites give fantastic guidelines to gun responsibility:
1. The Alliance for Gun Responsibility
The Alliance for Gun Responsibility works to end the gun violence crisis in our community and to promote a culture of gun ownership that balances rights with responsibilities.
2. Child Safe Project
https://projectchildsafe.org/parents-and-gun-owners/
As a firearm owner, you are responsible to ensure that guns in your home are stored where they are inaccessible to children or other unauthorized persons.
The focus on gun responsibility is safety and storage. In detail, here are some suggestions for both focus points. Some may seem ‘duh’ advice, but somehow it is still overlooked and children are getting hurt.
Safety-A gun or weapon is not a toy. We all know this and common sense tells us that guns/firearms are dangerous.
Police officers and commissioned security officers use these weapons in their jobs. There are required extensive safety seminars required for their use and owning the firearm for work. There are gun ranges in or around your community that allow a member or potential member to come in and shoot with their firearms. They advise on controlling the weapon, safety usage of the weapon that is discharging. Cleaning and storing the weapon.
Family-oriented gun facilities are open to bringing gun enthusiasts together for a day of shooting activates. These facilities are safety-oriented and family-owned. A weapon is a tool used as a security device, not a toy.
Storage is the second and just as important as the first. Store an unloaded firearm in a locked cabinet, safe, gun vault, or storage case. The storage location should be inaccessible to children.
Gun locking devices render firearms inoperable and used in addition to locked storage. Dissembled firearms should be stored in one location and the weapon itself in another. All ammunition should be stored in a locked location separate from firearms.
Check all stored firearms carefully to confirm that they are unloaded when you remove them from storage. Additionally, accidents could occur if a family member borrows a gun and returns it to storage while still loaded.
What are unauthorized persons?
The unauthorized person can include friends, extended family, and people in your life that are mentally unstable. How do you tell that there is a mentally unstable person in your house wanting to take your gun? Unless it is an established patient of Mental Health Mental Retardation services, you cannot for sure.
What do I do if my spouse, child, or parents are drunk, mad, or depressed?
An emotional crisis is not a stable and sound condition of the body or mind. Drunkenness is neither. It is highly recommended, firmly suggested, and a law in some states to keep your firearms and weapons in a locked box with a cable lock system, unloaded, and out of sight.
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This is a debatable issue amongst many Americans. Here are my opinions on the subject. It is a right and privilege to own a gun. Yes, the Second Amendment gives us the Right to Bear Arms. However, this was amended to fight against governments whether foreign and domestic that intended to take over our nation and take away our rights as citizens.
No one wants to take away your guns, keep them, but be responsible. It’s not idiots fighting in the streets anymore for a brick they don’t own. It’s kids killing kids, babies shooting one another in the playground and the ER and Healthcare workers mend these surviving little bodies, but they can’t heal the emotional distress from violent incidents.
