<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Yes. The NRA has sunk to a whole new level of STUPID.</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of <i>Raw Story</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/instructor-at-nra-convention-recommends-keeping-guns-in-kids-bedrooms-for-safety-reasons/">http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/instructor-at-nra-convention-recommends-keeping-guns-in-kids-bedrooms-for-safety-reasons/</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="blog-title" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); border: 0px; font-size: 45px; font-family: Roboto; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Instructor at NRA convention recommends keeping guns in kids’ bedrooms — for safety reasons</h1><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking to a crowd at an NRA convention in Louisville, Kentucky, a gun instructor told the assembled members of the audience that storing guns in their children’s rooms is not only a good idea, but one of the first places he would stick them in case of a home invasion.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/05/31/3782497/nra-kids-shooting/" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; -webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms;">Think Progress</a>, firearm instruction company I.C.E. Training owner Rob Pincus warned about the risk of Americans being assaulted in their own homes, while advocating for homeowners to be well armed.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Addressing where to store guns, Pincus suggested children’s rooms as one of his first stops.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Why would you consider staging a firearm inside a child’s room?” he asked the attendees. “It’s the first place I’m going to go! As I’ve said…many times, if your kid is going to break into the safe just because it’s in their room, you have a parenting issue, not a home defense issue.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to Pincus, when there is a home break-in the first place a parent presumably would run to is the kid’s room so a gun should be available there — albeit locked up in a gun safe.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asked if gun owners need to “ensure” that guns are not easily accessible, Pincus quibbled over the term opting for the less definite, “I’m going to say we have an obligation to try to prevent unauthorized access.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the San Francisco-based <a href="http://smartgunlaws.org/law-center-and-americans-for-responsible-solutions-release-commonsense-solutions-toolkit-on-protecting-kids-from-unintended-shootings/" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms;">Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence</a>, 1.7 million children live in households where guns are stored either loaded or not locked away.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A report by <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sandy-hook-american-kid-has-died-gun-every-other-day-n478746" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; -webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms;">NBC</a> in late 2015 showed that a child in the U.S. has died from a gunshot almost every other day since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook in 2012 that took the lives of twenty elementary school children.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Watch Pincus make the same pitch at a seminar in Houston three years ago, uploaded to YouTube:</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://youtu.be/X4UWcX-vrC4">https://youtu.be/X4UWcX-vrC4</a></span></p></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>But, I wasn't ALWAYS anti-handgun, as this photo of me and some friends, back in 1958'ish Van Nuys (California), clearly suggests . . .</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/VanNuys_1958ish.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/VanNuys_1958ish.jpg</a><br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>