Rob Pincus Has Rattled Cages With Good Advise

[MikeBjerum]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319796/NRA-advises-parents-protect-children-keeping-guns-bedrooms.html

Read the story and watch the video.  Also, during the video you can hear responses by the audience to his question - Listen carefully.

Good sound advise, and the media is starting to roll against it.

[tombogan03884]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/05/what-piece-of-seemingly-benign-advice-from-an-nra-speaker-has-liberal-sites-up-in-arms/

A speaker at the National Rifle Association convention advised parents to keep an extra gun safe in their children’s room — a suggestion that quickly made its way around the liberal blogosphere.

Rob Pincus, the owner of self-defense training company I.C.E., told the audience at his seminar on home defense Saturday that if they hear an intruder, their first instinct will be to run to their kids. Therefore, that’s where their gun should be as well.

“In the middle of the night, if I’m in the bathroom or getting a glass of water or I’m in the bedroom or watching TV in the living room, if that alarm goes off and the glass breaks and the dog starts barking, what’s the instinct that most people are going to have, in regard to, ‘am I going to run across the house to get the gun, or am I going to run over here to help the screaming kid?’” Pincus said. “And if I’m going to go to the kid anyway, and I have an extra gun and an extra safe, why not put it in their closet?”

The left-leaning website ThinkProgress posted video of Pincus’ comments with the headline, “NRA ‘Home Defense’ Course Instructs Audience To Store Guns In Kids’ Room.” It was quickly picked up by the Huffington Post, Raw Story and elsewhere. Those sites cited statistics about child deaths from accidental shootings and from gun violence.

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[TAB]

Thats not bad advice actually, and the safe is actually "safer"   then a gun under your pillow or on the night stand.

[fightingquaker13]

I love this. If I'm wearing pants, odds are I'm carrying a gun. I don't have kids, so no issues of keeping guns out of the tricycle motor's hands. But I do know this. A rational criminal with full knowlege would break into the home a Huff Po editorial writer before he would break into mine, because they would give him a stern talking to, and I would shoot his arse. This seems to be basic common sense, I mean, its why we have an Army, for defense and detterence. But yet these idiots think unilateral personal disarament makes them safer. WTF?

[sefrein]

The concept seems sound, you can improve it by using a tactical vault which is biometric and holds up to two long guns and two handguns and a tactical flashlight, with biometrics you and spouse could be coded and that way there is no chance a child could access it? Most criminals would never expect you to come out of a child's room ready to roll?

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[tombogan03884]

The wimps are right for the wrong reason .
It's a dumb idea to keep your SD weapons in ANY other room but the one you are in .
Let's play make believe here .
You hear glass breaking and strange voices at 3AM, you jump out of bed and head to where ever your guns are when, OOPSIES,
 you meet 2 intruders in the hallway .
Whatcha gonna do now ?

[Jrlobo]

Tom is right. Keep the weapon at your hand. You take the intruders head on and quickly. Wifey can head to kids room where having a gun safe is a good idea as back up and last resort. But you are the first responder, so if you only do one thing, do as Tom suggests.

[MikeBjerum]

It's O dark thirty, your prostate is enlarged, so you get up often, your tinkling, and you realize there is danger in the home.  Where do you go first - To your bedroom where the self defense tool is, or to lock your children down?  Not all of us carry Glocks, so gun in one hand and firearm in the other isn't advised 

Staged self defense tools in all areas of the home is a good idea!

[tombogan03884]

M58, if I get up at "O dark thirty" my Kel Tec is in the waist band of my skivvies.

[philw]

Sounds like good advice to me.   It is the reason I have a few knives about the house and the odd length of wood.  Never know when or where you are going to need something