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--- Quote from: MissMichella on May 24, 2013, 02:40:43 PM ---Believe me...there's been a lot of frustration on my part as far as that goes.  There are legal issues that go along with visitations, and if he says the guns are out of reach and safe, I can't legally enter and check.  I just know how they have been stored in the past, so there's some fear that goes along with that.  I guess careless would be the best word to describe what I have seen before.


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Sorry to hear that.  You obviously have to balance what's best for your child with what the legal system compels you to do.  I won't pretend to give advice in that area. 

msspatz:
I was always told from the when I was that little not to touch.  I think if you say that enough times that they do get it.  I know that's how I have always been with my kids.  Anytime they were at my dad's house and they would ask to see one of my dad's guns cause he had them in a case I would tell them no we don't touch them.  If they ask why then you say how they could hurt someone if they had bullets in them it's more of a repetition of telling them until they get a little older to really understand the just of things.  When I was about 6 or 7 my dad would tell me the same thing and also tell me that I can only handle a gun when he was around cause he would take me shooting and we did a lot of that.  With that said I have always respected firearms from a very little age and it's all about repetition if they ask tell them can't touch if they are looking at them through a glass case don't touch.  I have all boys so even a play gun I have always told them don't point it at people and then I would tell them the dangers of real guns.  Today they love to shoot but they don't get my guns out they know that they can only handle them in target practice and are not allowed to touch them unless I'm around.  I have even stressed I don't even want their friends dads to take them out target shooting because I'm not there I do not know how that father is around guns so that's also a big no no.   I'm a mom too so I can understand your concerns.

Gary:
Letting your child enter an area with uncontrolled guns, is child endangerment.    Small children cannot be trusted to make correct choices, we do that for them.  If there is an adult in your child's life that is not making correct choices for your child, and you allow your child time with that adult, you are likewise responsible for anything that happens to that child.

The first thing that goes into a house with a child, is a lockable safe.  Second comes a gun. 

Do not allow your child into any area with guns laying around, in the open.  No safe, guns not in the safe, do not allow your child to enter that house.  Plain and simple.  This rule applies to 6 month olds, 2 year olds, 6 year olds, 14 year olds, or anyone not able to understand the correct use of firearms.

MissMichella:
I understand what child endangerment is.  I work in the Judicial system in some capacity, so I know what I can and can't do legally.  I'm also a really great mom...and I could be a little sensitive towards feeling like I'm being viewed as not doing what's best or safest for my kid.

That being said...with my situation, I have to take the word of someone else that the guns are secured and not accessible to my daughter.  I don't have any hard evidence that they aren't.  However, I don't have control of that part of her life, so I'm trying to be proactive in the ways I can.  I just want to start teaching my daughter as early as possible on what to do if she's ever faced with a situation where an unsecured gun is found.  You have to understand that it's not just as easy as not letting your child in an area with uncontrolled guns.  I simply wanted advice on how to start teaching her what to do if she was faced with the situation.  I have no idea if there's any danger, so that wasn't the point of the post, and now I'm all sensitive about a post on the internet...haha.  I need to get out more.

I would really appreciate the material referenced.  I'll try to figure out this message thing and send my addy over.

Dan W:

--- Quote from: MissMichella on May 24, 2013, 06:22:14 PM ---I'm also a really great mom...and I could be a little sensitive towards feeling like I'm being viewed as not doing what's best or safest for my kid.
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Those that have no experience dealing with child custody, court orders and non cooperative ex spouses should just keep their ignorance to themselves

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