home defense
Massnee, I'm impressed that you wish to comply with the law, as screwy as that law is. That is truly good citizenship. I recently purchased a black powder revolver. I have six children with the seventh on the way, and affordability was a big issue. Next was the fact that it is probably too complicated for a child to figure out in the unlikely event that they could get their hands on it. I keep it dismantled when not in possession, and locked up. It can be retrieved and assembled in about 20 seconds if the need arises.
Some would call that an excessive amount of time, but that is the compromise I personally choose between child safety and bad guy suppression. My younger children get into everything, are intensely busy and curious, and if you take your eyes off them for five seconds, nothing is safe. It would only be a matter of time before they got ahold it. The alternative would be to break the child abuse laws and beat their intelligence and curiousity out of them. Really. And that's not going to happen.
I think you have made an outstanding choice. I applaud your adherence to laws that are difficult to bear and discriminatory in nature. That is the mark of a true citizen, in the democratic ideal. Civil disobedience has its place, but not if there can be a realistic work-around like you have found, at least until better laws can be put in place. That is what separates us from countries where corruption and disregard for the law is the norm, which is much of the world. You have my admiration.
happybrew
Massnee, I'm impressed that you wish to comply with the law, as screwy as that law is. That is truly good citizenship. I recently purchased a black powder revolver. I have six children with the seventh on the way, and affordability was a big issue. Next was the fact that it is probably too complicated for a child to figure out in the unlikely event that they could get their hands on it. I keep it dismantled when not in possession, and locked up. It can be retrieved and assembled in about 20 seconds if the need arises.
Some would call that an excessive amount of time, but that is the compromise I personally choose between child safety and bad guy suppression. My younger children get into everything, are intensely busy and curious, and if you take your eyes off them for five seconds, nothing is safe. It would only be a matter of time before they got ahold it. The alternative would be to break the child abuse laws and beat their intelligence and curiousity out of them. Really. And that's not going to happen.
I think you have made an outstanding choice. I applaud your adherence to laws that are difficult to bear and discriminatory in nature. That is the mark of a true citizen, in the democratic ideal. Civil disobedience has its place, but not if there can be a realistic work-around like you have found, at least until better laws can be put in place. That is what separates us from countries where corruption and disregard for the law is the norm, which is much of the world. You have my admiration.
happybrew