Three recent examples of why we carry in restaurants.

[liberal_biker]

112. You presented the statute....

...but didn't bother actually reading it, or anything I've said.

If the kid got hold of one and stole it to shoot another kid, then tell me exactly who has committed a crime there?

No - sorry - there is no obligation to make them impossible to steal, and I assure you, I would not face any civil or legal penalties for such a thing.

Your lack of understanding of the law does not make you right. Put another way, you can assert that 2+2=5 all day long, but you're still wrong.

Let me clarify it for you. Here's the portion you don't seem to understand:

(b) A person commits an offense if a child gains access to a
readily dischargeable firearm and the person with criminal
negligence:
(1) failed to secure the firearm; or
(2) left the firearm in a place to which the person
knew or should have known the child would gain access.

I would have to leave a readily dischargeable firearm unsecured or in a place I KNEW or SHOULD HAVE KNOWN the child would gain access. I have no reason to know or reasonably conclude that a child is going to go rooting around in my home in areas he is not allowed to go. That is a critical thing. Yes, he COULD theoretically, wait until I was preoccupied with something else, go foraging around my home to find my firearms, and steal one. This is quite true. However, in that case, he has now gone somewhere I knew he should not gain access.

These are critical points. In normal person English, what this is saying is, if my dumb ass leaves them lying around in plain sight, or my kids room, then I pretty well deserve to be held culpable. I agree 100%. What it does NOT say, is that I am obligated in any way to make them totally inaccessible to a minor.