The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do

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2. I know people love their guns (or even luv their gunz)

but Jesus-tapdancing-Christ, people. Why can't people lock up their shit or just not leave them lying around with bullets in them? It's not exactly rocket surgery.

Sad-but-could-have-been-worse story time: Back in the early '80s, my uncle used to leave an old tube-fed .22 rifle in his truck. This tube-feeder had a tendency to get a single round stuck in the tube when unloaded. His 3-year-old daughter was playing with here 2-year-old sister in the truck one day, when the older one got down the rifle and pointed it at her sister's chest. The victim spent a month in the hospital and almost died (remember, a 2-year-old isn't much bigger than the woodchucks my uncle used it on). Rifle went in the burn barrel.

The moral of the story is: If you're going to own it (a topic for another day) lock it up away from your small children. A basic rifle safe is like $100 a Walmart, about half the cost of one of those "tacticool" plastic stocks they sell for AR-15s. A handgun lock box is the same as a pistol magazine.