As a parent, my job is to make it hard to get ahold of guns, knives, and what's traditionally in the medicine cabinet, believe it or not. As a gun owner, the o

As a parent, my job is to make it hard to get ahold of guns, knives, and what's traditionally in the medicine cabinet, believe it or not. As a gun owner, the original criticism is quite valid as a contributing cause. Firearms have been socialized by mass media as being complete toys, and the idea that it's reasonable to just have them sitting around your house where your kids can access them in their own developing child context is just nuts. And it's not really sustainable to be reflexively against the idea of every type of regulation, especially ones for setting responsible normative behavior.