Personally I keep a bat or replica samurai sword next to my bed. If my alarm goes off or I hear a break in noise downstairs, that person is leaving my house with a souvenir in his ass I hope haha.
You have about ten seconds to respond to the average home invasion. Typically there are multiple intruders. You might as well leave your guns in the truck of your car for all the good they will do you if they are secured in a gun safe. Yes, there are special biometric pistol safes that are supposed to open instantaneously when you put your hand on them. The couple of seconds that takes, plus the possibility that you mess it up at 3 AM when the adrenalin is surging, could be critical. I will also wager there have been many more cases of young people retrieving a weapon and repelling trouble when their parents are either under coercion or simply not there than there have been cases of kids taking unsecured weapons and shooting up their school. I certainly understand keeping target or hunting weapons locked up. Home defense weapons are useless if not immediately available however.
I think any rational person would agree with this. One of the worst things that can happen to you is to have to use a weapon in a self defense situation. Anyone who fantasizes about it or romanticizes it is a fool.
So if the kids get drunk one night when the parents are out and take the family car out for a spin and kill some people, are the parents criminally liable there as well? The only real difference is you want to demonize gun ownership.
A UK paper is reporting that one of the shooters' father was an illegal alien who had been deported and who served time for domestic violence. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-McKinney-serial-felon-illegal-immigrant.html Interestingly, the article reveals that a concerned mother had contacted the School Board because she was concerned about a possible Columbine-style shooting, given claimed high levels of violence, sexual assault, a bomb threat and overall high stress levels at the STEM school. The school responded by hiring a lawyer to look into suing...the concerned mother. The article also says the shooters broke into a gun cabinet to get the weapon.
“The father of one of the alleged STEM School Highlands Ranch shooters in Colorado is a serial felon and illegal immigrant from Mexico, DailyMail.com can reveal.” Have to get this news from the UK because the Liberal media in the United States has buried the story. Doesn’t fit the agenda so it must be silenced.