Why are guns holy objects in this country?

No it's really not....decades later to his day I still really do have a scar on my right calf from when my buddy loaded his BB gun with pellets and shot me in the leg when I was around 13 years old because I tried to steal one of his pool balls from his pool table and run out of the door lol.

I don't know where you personally grew up but where I grew up firearms were nowhere even remotely close to being taboo. My father bought me a BB gun when I was 8 years old and my friends all had similar guns.

If perhaps you were raised in a city then such a thing may seem completely alien to you. But the reality is that in rural America kids owned guns, and there was no stigma about it. It was nowhere near uncommon to see prepubescent children walking around with varmint hunter .22 rifles where I'm from.

The main difference is that back then nobody feared we were going to walk into our school and shoot up the place because somebody picked on us too much unlike todays day and age.

 

Well the difference is that we have to figure out a way to actually address that instead of speculating about a fantasy world that we WISH existed here.

There are more guns here than citizens and our citizens are just as heavily armed as our law enforcement officers and our Constitution says that's how it SHOULD be under the laws by which our nation was founded. So how exactly do we tackle a problem like that?

 

I agree that those in possession of firearms should take reasonable measures to ensure their weapons are secured if they have children or something but how would we actually enforce such a law?

For example I have multiple firearms, all except for one are stored in a locked gun safe. I have a plain shotgun that I just keep propped up against the wall next to my bed in my bedroom and I can leave it out because I live alone.

Even if we were to implement laws requiring the proper securing of firearms how exactly would anybody know what I actually secure my firearms instead of just propping it up against my wall the way I currently do?

 

I don't believe that's a real problem to be honest. The majority of firearm owners are responsible folks and take the necessary precautions to secure such weapons if they have children in the home.

Of course there are the random idiots of society who don't but that's no different than anything else. We can't really legislate stupidity in all walks of life. Just like the vast majority of pregnant women know not to smoke when with child but there is always going to be the resident dumbass who is smoking a cigarette while 8 months pregnant.

Every once and awhile we will see a news story of a resident dumbass who left their handgun on the coffee table and their toddler picked it up and shot themselves. But in the grand scheme of things those such incidents really are very rare.

 

Well the difference between seatbelts and mandatory gun securing is that I have to actually drive my car in public in the view of law enforcement who can see whether or not I am in fact wearing a seatbelt.

With things like mandatory firearm security within the home how exactly would you enforce that? It is impossible to regulate what one does in their own home because nobody can actually see what you do or don't do within your own home.

Like right now we could pass a law stating that all firearms must be properly secured but I keep a Mossberg shotgun propped up next to my bed. How exactly could you enforce whether or not I did that?