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Study: Many Veterans Don’t Properly Store Guns
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ONE-THIRD OF U.S. military veterans who own firearms keeps at least one of their guns unlocked and loaded with ammunition – a storage practice widely viewed as unsafe. Researchers studied 3,949 people, of whom, 561 were veterans who owned guns. Approximately 33.3 percent of gun owners who were veterans stored at least one of their guns loaded and unlocked. About 22.5 percent stored all of their firearms unloaded and locked. Sixty-six percent stored at least one of their guns unlocked and 46.7 percent stored at least one gun loaded, according to the survey.
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"ONE-THIRD OF U.S. military veterans who own firearms keeps at least one of their guns unlocked and loaded with ammunition – a storage practice widely viewed as unsafe."
Widely viewed as unsafe by people who know nothing about a) firearms or b) self-defense or c) situational awareness.
I'm sick of these know-nothings spouting inane opinions as if they should be taken as authoritative.
As the SCOTUS noted in striking down Washintgon's ban on handguns in the home (D.C. v. Heller), a firearm stored in the home locked up and unloaded is useless for its core purpose - self-defense.
These ninnies need to keep their mouths SHUT. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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