Father who lost son warns parents on guns

[onehandle]

The handgun was hidden, the trigger locked, and the key stashed away. Farid Naib said he did everything a responsible parent with a weapon in the house should do for his family's safety.

But in March, he buried his 13-year-old son, who shot and killed himself with the gun Naib thought he had so carefully concealed.

Now Naib is appearing in a video produced by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Violence - and released to coincide with National Suicide Prevention Week - to warn parents about the dangers of having a gun in the home.

"The notion that a gun in the house keeps you safer just isn't true," Farid Naib said in an interview Thursday. "I bought it for protection and it ended up destroying my life."

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150910_Father_who_lost_son_warns_parents_on_guns.html

[Snobblevitch]

1. Firearms in the home should always be locked up, separately.

[elfin]

2. I remember Larry King interviewing Tom Arnold the night of Columbine

I never expected anything smart from Tom Arnold, but he surprised me and said it exactly right -- it was along the lines of "If you have a gun or guns in the house and boys -- no matter how secure you think you have made the firearms, the boys will ALWAYS find them and figure out how to fire them. ALWAYS. Guns are irresistible to adolescent males."

I agree with that and understand that many will not.