Children and Guns: The Fear and the Reality | National Review Online
"Asking neighbors about guns not only strains relationships, it also exaggerates the dangers and ignores the benefits from guns. In the end, some good might come out of all this gun phobia: If your neighbor asks if you own a gun, rather than sarcastically asking whether they own a space heater, why not teach them about guns and offer to go to a shooting range together?"
Also...
http://johnrlott.tripod.com/whitney.pdf
"It is frequently assumed that safe-storage gun laws reduce accidental gun deathsand total suicides, while the possible impact on crime rates is ignored. We find no
support that safe-storage laws reduce either juvenile accidental gun deaths or suicides.
Instead, these storage requirements appear to impair people’s ability to use guns
defensively. Because accidental shooters also tend to be the ones most likely to
violate the new law, safe-storage laws increase violent and property crimes against
law-abiding citizens with no observable offsetting benefit in terms of reduced accidents or suicides."
"Asking neighbors about guns not only strains relationships, it also exaggerates the dangers and ignores the benefits from guns. In the end, some good might come out of all this gun phobia: If your neighbor asks if you own a gun, rather than sarcastically asking whether they own a space heater, why not teach them about guns and offer to go to a shooting range together?"
Also...
http://johnrlott.tripod.com/whitney.pdf
"It is frequently assumed that safe-storage gun laws reduce accidental gun deathsand total suicides, while the possible impact on crime rates is ignored. We find no
support that safe-storage laws reduce either juvenile accidental gun deaths or suicides.
Instead, these storage requirements appear to impair people’s ability to use guns
defensively. Because accidental shooters also tend to be the ones most likely to
violate the new law, safe-storage laws increase violent and property crimes against
law-abiding citizens with no observable offsetting benefit in terms of reduced accidents or suicides."