Meaning I'm unconvinced by the findings.

further inquiry. Still, the children from gun owning families were 2 for 2.

It's the families that teach their children to fear sex that are the ones most surprised by teenage pregnancies. Fear is not a teacher, respect is. You can teach children to respect guns, sex, drugs and a host of other potential pitfalls in a way that avoids fear mongering and better enables them to use their best judgment.

...are accidentally shot in houses without guns.

But we knew that already, didn't we.

prohibited and mysterious. Same concept regardless of the subject.

But getting people who are not pro-gun to begin with, to agree, is like pulling hydras teeth.

We played with them without parents knowledge.

Things were different then. There was a loaded shotgun behind the front door as long as I can remember. A pistol was hidden in the bedroom but we figured it out. The earliest I can remember handling them was somewhere between _13 and 17.

I think 13 is old enough to responsibly handle firearms, if you've been taught basic safety.

I'm sure though that there are many people who keep loaded guns in their house today and think that the kids don't know where they are. I'd bet they are wrong. Just hiding them is not enough.

People don't want to try it because it's an NRA talking point, I guess.