[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by Chewbacca: Oh, and kudos to you Cerek for taking precautions with the guns for the kids sake. My brother keeps a clip in his nightstand and the unloaded gun in an oversized coat pocket in the closet even though the chances our 6 year old nephew would be unsupervised in his room is quite low. He can still get armed rather quickly if the dogs start going ape-crazy or he hears the door getting kicked-in and, ironically, Mom sleeps safer knowing that there is not a loaded handgun in the house. He locks the nightstand and the reinforced closet door ( which also houses his hunting guns) when he is not home.

The incident with the potential armed intruder (he drove down our driveway and got out of his vehicle with a rifle - but decided to run into the woods instead of towards the house) occurred almost 20 years ago. Since then, there really haven't been any "close calls". I live across the street from a trailer park now, but most of the residents there keep to themselves. The only "incident" I've had at the house occurred when two black kids came knocking on my door at midnight one night. Fortunately, I was still up playing on the PC or it would have really scared me for somebody to knock on the door that late. Their story was that one of them had been hurt in a fight with some people across the street and they wanted to come in and use the phone. BUZZZZZZ!! Wrong answer, but thanks for playing. I DID call an ambulance for them and told them to stay on my front porch until the EMS guys arrived. In the meantime, I turned out what few lights were on in the house (so they couldn't see where I was standing) and got my gun out of the closet. I checked my back door to make sure the guys in front weren't acting as "decoys". That is the only time I've ever had to actually get my gun for a potential intruder.

Originally posted by Chewbacca: One a note related to gun accidents- One thing Moore could have really hard looked at rather than taking pot-shots at Charleton Heston and Dick Clark is the technological advances gun makers can and do take advantage of to decrease the number of accidental shootings. Highlighting some of the shortcomings and successes concerning this angle of the issue would have been time well spent IMHO.

That is a good point that Moore didn't explore. But I don't know how much they would actually be used. My college roommate had one of the cases that you have to stick your fingers into individual slots and push the buttons in a precise sequence to unlock it and get the gun. One night there was a HUGE storm in his area and lightning struck so close to his house that it literally shook the whole house. He woke from a dead sleep and thought somebody was trying to break in. He said that - when he tried to get his gun out of that case - it was almost impossible (since he still wasn't fully awake, but the adrenaline was flowing so strong). After that, he just kept the gun on the table (he doesn't have any kids to worry about).

I know that I also wouldn't use any "gun safety" devices. It's just as easy to simply unload the gun and keep the clip in a location with easy access (for me).

One point I really liked from BfC was the joke Chris Rock was making about needing "bullet control" instead of "gun control". He suggested that bullets should cost $5,000 each. If bullets cost $5,000 each, you won't have any "drive-by shootings" and there won't be any "innocent bystanders". If you pay $5,000 for each bullet, you're gonna make damn sure you hit what you're aiming at. It was done in jest, but he does have a good point. Our government is currently trying to force smokers to give up their habit by simply making cigarettes too freakin expensive to afford. If the same was done with ammunition, there WOULD be far fewer shooting incidents than we have now.

And I'm still just flabbergasted that the clerk at K-Mart agreed to sell her entire inventory of ammo to the kid that Moore took to K-Mart HQ. Of course, since the cameras were there and Moore probably went in to explain what they were doing - that might explain why she didn't really ask any questions. I would honostly hope that NO clerk would just sell their entire inventory of ammo to a single individual for ANY reason - I don't care if the person DOES have the money and doesn't raise any flags with a background check. I doubt Eric Harris and Dylan (the Columbine shooters) would have raised any warning flags either. But if somebody comes in and wants to buy several hundred rounds of various ammo's - that definitely should shoot up a red flag.