tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post2507489609471948192..comments2024-03-29T02:41:52.718-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Potpourri of Parenting StoriesMelissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-60037882124346971992013-12-29T23:33:35.929-08:002013-12-29T23:33:35.929-08:00Thanks for sharing such a importants site, keep it...Thanks for sharing such a importants site, keep it up.sap community networkhttp://www.sapzilla.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-17043782819646686162013-12-23T23:42:16.413-08:002013-12-23T23:42:16.413-08:00Melissa - The thing is that its really hard to fin...Melissa - The thing is that its really hard to find out when people store guns improperly in their home, except for when a tragedy happens. And for every time a kid is killed by an improperly stored gun, there are 1000 times when a gun is stored improperly and nobody gets killed. So from experience, there is a 99.9% likelihood that the gun you've stored improperly isn't going to either get someone killed or get you arrested. Those are huge odds for getting away with it, and create a false sense of security because everyone <br /><br />Like Patrick says, there needs to be a big fine or sentence just for having a gun stored improperly, but even then it is difficult to have those kinds of restrictions in the US. <br /><br />The way some European countries do it, where private guns are registered and require extensive permitting, which includes home inspections to insure proper storage of the gun and ammo, would work - but think of the politics of trying to get that passed in the US.Ragweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12491896585801927302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-61250649070015802872013-12-23T08:39:28.872-08:002013-12-23T08:39:28.872-08:00Well, someone who does not secure a weapon could g...Well, someone who does not secure a weapon could get a choice - jail or a huge fine (depending on your income so that better-off people would get hit as hard as anyone else).Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12588239576000641336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-12681232021894927342013-12-22T23:45:03.820-08:002013-12-22T23:45:03.820-08:00On gun violence - I don't actually think that ...On gun violence - I don't actually think that the criminal sentence will have that much affect. The consequence of storing a gun improperly are already that <i>someone could get killed</i>. If that is not sufficient deterrence, then I doubt a criminal sentence will be. Not that we shouldn't have a lengthy criminal sentence, but the research on deterrence shows limited success, and that the likelihood of a sanction seems more important than the severity of a sanction. Ragweedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12491896585801927302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-83611918607391106432013-12-22T19:36:53.102-08:002013-12-22T19:36:53.102-08:00For gun violence, it would help if there were seri...For gun violence, it would help if there were serious sentences <i> just for storing the weapon improperly </i> even if it didn't lead to a tragedy like this.<br /><br />Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16260807460417787614noreply@blogger.com