Me, Personally

I am a responsible gun owner.  Or I like to think of myself as such.  I happen to agree with the reasonable restrictions placed on gun ownership.  Specifically, people that are adjudicated crazy, convicted felons, traitors, or substance abusers should not have access to guns.

Would I snitch on a neighbor that I knew had a gun and I knew was one of those things?  Maybe.  Probably.  It would feel oogy, but I'd do it.  If I trusted the cops not to then inform said crazy criminal drug dealer neighbor that I was snitch.

If I happened to be living with a prohibitted person, I would not have one of my own guns in the house.  Period.  The responsible thing to do is totally disarm, I feel.  Maybe, maybe, I'd get a VERY good safe and keep one or two in there. 

You know what else?  If I was living with person that I knew SHOULD be adjudicated crazy but hasn't yet, or was living with a person that I knew commits real felonies but hasn't been convicted yet, I'd also not have any guns.  (Truth?  I wouldn't keep a felon in the house either.  Not even a relative.  But a crazy relative?  That might cohabit with me in some hypotheticals I can think of.)

But that's just the precautions I'd take.  Totally disarmed (I wouldn't like it) or a Fort Knox quality vault and only enough guns that I could safely keep track of on the rare occasions I opened it.  Two.  Maybe.  I might own other guns but keep them offsite.

I am thinking of that mom of the shooter in Connecticut.  She certainly knew her son was crazy.  And I am having a hard time believing her guns that he absconded with were really secure to a level I'd be comfortable with if I had a son like that.