Please help me to understand......
Isn't the point of having a gun being able to use it to protect yourself? Then why is it that many states ( if not all) require you to have a lock on you gun and it be put in a gun safe? How am I supposed to protect myself and my family if I can't get to my gun? Let's say for example, a robber were to break into my home one night, this is what would happen.
1st, run to nightstand
2nd, remove gun from safe
3rd, grab keys. (which are usually in kitchen, which means run across house and get keys and then run back to bedroom)
4th, Take a minute and a half removing complicated lock from gun.
5th, pull hammer back and fire.
And while all of this is going on the robber has killed my children, and is now rapping my wife. I know the point of a gun lock is to protect kids from killing themselves accidentally, but guns shouldn't be owned by people who can't keep their guns away from their kids anyways.
Please help me understand.
Answers:
I don't know of any state that requires you to use the trigger lock, only that dealers sell some sort of locking mechanism - trigger locks or locking container - on every gun they sell.
And, no, I don't think the point of having a gun is to protect yourself. How many people, do you think, need to protect themselves that way, really. Since very few people are really trained to use a gun in a crisis situation even remotely like you describe, it is more likely that the intruder would be able to disarm you and use your own weapon on YOU.
I wish i could answer that but it's just too dumb
I think the idea is reality -- statistics show that an unlocked gun in your house is more likely to kill you or someone in your family than an intruder.
I guess you need a better lock.
I have never hear of a regulation that require that it both be in a gun safe AND have a gun lock. It is one or the other.
The story you recounted above, e.g. home invastion occurs very, very rarely in comparison to the number of times a child accidently kills themselves or someone esle, when they find a gun that the parents were absolutely certain was in a safe place that the kids can't get to.
So statistically you are much more likely to be killed if you did not secure your gun from that very same gun then you are in the very rare (but always a huge hit on the news) situtation of a home invasion.
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