Want a gun? Take a bullet:

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108. Prepared how?

I was advised by a detective to "cooperate, cooperate, cooperate 'til it hurts. You don't know what these guys may be on." Money is replaceable. Life isn't.

This is stirring up a lot of stuff for me. If I'm going to stay on DU I think I need to go find some kitteh .gifs.

Please do continue frank, open discussion on accident prevention, especially for kids.

"The study found the victims of gun accidents were boys 81 percent of the time. In about two-thirds of cases, the victim was shot by someone else. In those cases, 97 percent of the time the shooter was male. And more than 90 percent of the time, the shooter was family or a friend. About 19 percent of victims were shot in the homes of friends, and 11 percent of deaths involved hunting. It was very rare for an adult who's not a family member to be accidentally shot by or accidentally shoot a child.

Time and time again, the shootings followed a similar pattern: A child found a parent's stray gun, played with it, and accidentally fired it, killing himself or a bystander. It's an absolute tragedy, one that could be easily prevented if firearms were stored more safely."

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/15/9539263/children-die-accidental-shootings