I have no problem with guns as long as they're safely locked up... [View All]

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... with the ammunition locked away in a separate place so the kids are safe!

NOT MY VIEWS, but I think most of us here have read similar sentiments posted on these pages. The flaw in that logic comes in when your 19-year-old daughter's stalker from work decides to break in to your home in the middle of the night.

http://www.freep.com/article/20110904/NEWS03/110904019/Police-release-names-murder-suicide-Independence-Township

When she discovered Adair in her bedroom, he began choking her, police said. Kristen Hinze screamed and when her mother, Lou Ann Hinze, went to her room to check on her, she was shot, Sheriff’s Sgt. Wesley Beltz said today. Lou Ann Hinze later was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Kristen’s father, Charles Hinze, was shot in the shoulder and ran to the basement to get his shotgun, Beltz said. Before he got back upstairs, he heard another shot -- Adair turning the weapon on himself, Beltz said.

Sounds like Mr. Hinze was a responsible gun owner who kept his guns safely locked away out of reach of the children. As a result, he was unable to protect his family from a deranged pothead* who decided he couldn't live without 19-year-old Kristen.

(*The "pothead" assertion is pretty safe to make here, as the article states that the assailant met the victim at her place of employment - The Salvation Army - while he was serving community service for a marijuana conviction.)