I’m Worried About Guns in My Grandchildren’s Home, What Can I Do?

Here's a question from a grandparent. I'm a grandparent and my children have guns. I worry about guns in the home, um, of my grandchildren. What can I do? I'm worried. All right, so lemme make sure I'm clear. So I'm a grandparent. I, my children have guns in their homes. I'm worried about the grandchildren. Alright, so I think there's two or three different things here. Um, is this our fear? Have, like, let me just give an example in my home. I grew up in Idaho. Uh, we had to go through safety training with guns. If we were, if we were gonna get any kind of a hunting license, we did, uh, a, a whole entire course on safety and preparation for gun use. In fact, my brother there still teaches that class. He, I mean, he, he loves guns himself, but he, I mean, he is, he is first and foremost about if you're gonna use this thing, safety is first in paramount. He talks about safety, how to put it away, how to store it away, how to store things apart. So my question is, is are your grandchildren being taught that? The answer to that question would really determine kind of a tree of where we go with it. If they've been taught that, then I would be, personally, I'd be more relaxed because I know that my grandchildren understand that. Are the guns put away? Are they locked away? That's another question we have to address. So I guess I would want to understand the fear itself. Is it because there are guns or is it because the guns are being left out, they're not being taken care of, they're, they're highly accessible, or is there another concern that I'm concerned about my grandchild taking a life or harming someone else? So I guess I would want you to reflect on what your fear is with the gun. And then I would take it and, and ask the questions that I asked. If there's no safety, if there's no, you know, if there's, they're just being left out. Yeah, I wanna talk to the parents about safety and just get their, their feedback. Now, they may not like your conversation, but at least you're bringing it up. If the guns are stored away, if the guns are separate from ammunition, if the parents are the ones who have the locks, uh, okay, we're having a different conversation because those guns are in a safer place. Have the children been, or the grandchildren been through a safety course? Again, these are all questions because we can be intentional with our gun use and we can do it very safely. Again, I grew up in Idaho where, you know, we, we did go hunting. I didn't really like it much personally, but that was what we did. And so we were required to learn how for, for safety purposes, how to store guns, how to set, separate the guns from the ammunition. Those are all things that we, you know, it was mandatory. So again, I, I would get more information and I, and maybe you know, the answers to these questions, but that's where I would start.