What are gun safety tips for kids?
Gun safety tips for kids are the same as they are for anybody. You only pick up a gun when you're sure that it's not loaded. And a child - anybody - has to be trained in how to examine a gun, how to manipulate a gun, to make sure that it's not loaded, because you can't tell just by looking at the outside of the gun. Then once you're sure the gun is unloaded, you can teach the child other safety tips like 'keep your finger off the trigger unless you're ready to shoot' and 'you're only ready to shoot when you're pointing it at something that you know that you should be shooting,' whether it's a target or an animal or a bad guy. And otherwise, you don't point the gun anywhere but down, and you have your finger off the trigger. By the way, those are lessons that are sometimes not taught well by some of the political police chiefs. I almost got out of my chair during a nationally televised news program when a police chief was holding guns and waving them around at chest level, and that included toward me. And if I hadn't been wired with a mike as I am now, I probably would've just jumped up. It's kind of silly that I let a wire that I could have easily broken hold me down, but that's how we don't think outside the box. But that police chief had not demonstrated at that time that those guns were empty. He just picked them up and carelessly waved them around.
