The Life of MEE

I'm watching the news coverage of the VT shooting and it got me thinking.  It's the ago old question...who do we blame?  The person shooting, the gun companies. the parents?  It's all so scary this world that we live in.  I was raised in a small town in Kansas where we could go places and our parents wouldn't worry about us.  No one that I knew of had a gun in their house.  I only found out last night from Ryan that a few of his friends, even his dad, had guns in their house.  As a parent myself I look at my little girls and worry so much about their lives as they get older.  When they are old enough to have sleepovers and such do we ask if there are guns in the house...is that a reasonable thing to ask?  How far can we go to make sure our kids are safe? Or do we have faith in the way that we've raised them and let them live their life without getting too involved?  Guess we will cross that road when we come to it. 

Just my 2 cents though...I think we need to ban guns all together in homes.  Any idiot can go out and buy a gun...I don't care how many laws out there that say they have to wait 2 weeks for a background check.    I know hunters need them to hunt, police need them to protect, and some normal people feel they need them in their homes for protection etc etc.  But where do we draw the line?  Kids are smarter than heck these days.  Even if parents haven't shown kids how to use a gun but it's in their house...a kid can figure it out.  And children love to explore.  Locked away guns aren't really that safe either since older kids can probably find the keys.  I honestly don't know if doing away with civilians having guns will help but at least it's something.  I know...the "Right to Bare Arms"  is there in the constitution but I also think as some point we need to draw the line.  

I'm just thankful thinking back to our Sunday at the park.  I was watching Kaylie swinging and Ryan helping Reese up and down the slide and just thinking how life couldn't get much better.  I wish we could keep the kids young forever and never let them know how dangerous the world really is.