The Nation Rifle Association has officially lost what was left of its mind.
RawStory reports that a training instructor from the company I.C.E. Training was addressing the NRA annual members’ convention. He was lecturing about the dangers of home invasion.
The instructor, Rob Pincus, told his willing listeners that it is important to fortify their homes against the hordes of armed bad guys out there who want to break in and hurt them.
One attendee asked Pincus where he should store his guns in order to be ready when the moment comes to defend his family. Using the kind of twisted logic that has long marked the NRA, Pincus said that the best place to keep a loaded gun is in a child’s bedroom:
“Why would you consider staging a firearm inside a child’s room? 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.”
#GunCrazy USA: #NRA Tells Parents: Keep Guns In Kids’ Rooms For Safety https://t.co/Rjfpe85bHU via @thinkprogress pic.twitter.com/a2czjd6lNE
— Allan Margolin (@AllanMargolin) June 1, 2016
So Pincus says that if you are at home with your family and you hear the sound of someone breaking in, the first place you’re going to run is to your child’s room. You will instinctively run to your child. So you should keep the gun in that room, instead of in the room with you, the supposedly responsible adult.
Pincus also easily dismisses the idea of a child getting the gun. He says its just a “parenting issue” if your 10 year old son gets curious and wants to look at the loaded gun in the room where he sleeps.
Pincus has clearly never met a real human child.
Statistics on gun deaths are horrifying. Everytown for Gun Sense reports that in 2013 there were 100 children killed in unintentional gun deaths.
How many more will there be if gun owners start keeping loaded guns in the bedrooms of their children? The NRA pretends that they care about gun safety, as in the video below (which, somehow, only manages to mention guns nearly halfway through).
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