NO CAPE!

Then what's the point if not to wear a cape?

You haven't seen The Incredibles, have you?

You haven't seen The Incredibles, have you?

Nope.

I'd worry about it too much, it would only take one mistake.

I'm curious how I will feel once we have children in the house old enough to move around. Thinking about it, we have a lot of dangerous shit around here - guns, knives, pellet guns, etc. (Guess whose toys those are?)

I know we will get a gun safe in the next year because I do worry about the one mistake. On the other hand, I strongly suspect it will be DH who teaches our kids about guns at a fairly young age. Probably a watermelon will be involved. We are safe and I trust DH completely. I don't trust the rest of the world, though and we can't control every place our children will be. I want my daughter/son to be the one who says "I already *know* guns are dangerous" when one of their friends shows them "something cool" they found under their parents bed.

::makes note in Gud's file::

Must to renting for the childrens. And you.

t weeps for Gudanov

I can understand the desire to not have a gun in the house, particularly with a child.

Must to renting for the childrens. And you.

I want to see it, there is often a very long time period being movies I want to see appearing and actually seeing the movie in question.

You haven't seen The Incredibles, have you?

But in my plan you are jet-engineless

(just in case that counts as an Incredibles spoiler)

Susan, I grew up with a bunch of guns, too, so it doesn't seem strange to me. My dad had a bunch of shotguns, my mom had one antique rifle, and they had a handgun. The hunting guns were locked in a cabinet while the shells were locked in a metal box in my dad's closet.

The handgun? I had no idea where that was until I was 19 and staying home for 2 weeks alone while my parents went on a vacation. Turns out, they kept it in my dad's sock drawer. Loaded. They did keep the first 2 chambers empty, so you have to fire 3 times before bullets come out.

Interestingly, a cop gave the handgun to my mom when she went to the police station to register our dogs. She was verra pregnant and had 4 other kids in tow. The cop found out that my dad travelled a lot for work and he gave it to her for protection when she is home alone. The gun was evidence from a case that had gone to trial already. The serial number is shaved off of it.

A cop once let me hold his gun.

While he was on duty.

I was 16.

Dumbass.