Reply #15: The basis of my belief is experience and the knowlege

[Fovea]

of other gun owners. I own guns. Most people I know own guns. But they are too frequently unsecured. One of my best friends lost thousands of dollars of guns, stolen from his house a few years back. None of them were well locked up, they were on wall racks and in display cases.

I can't count the number of rifles on racks I see locked in cheep racks in unsupervised pickup trucks, particularly in deer season. Those are easy to steal in many cases. Ask the guy who stole my old marlin 30-30 out of the back of my late lamented S10 pickup.

I grew up in the country, and now live in the city. City people own guns too.

Families in the inner city frequently keep a gun in the nightstand beside the bed, loaded, without a trigger lock. They have calculated the relative danger, and decided accordingly. Generally, these are not experienced shooters, merely possessors of firearms for personal protection and that 2nd amendment thing.

Many years ago I had an aquaintance, a friend of a friend, who lived in an armory. He implemented the three step rule, and lived by it, I assume he is still living. But you dared not sit on his couch without checking under the cushion, for fear of sitting on a glock. You got used to the idea that the umbrella stand had a sawed off New England arms 12ga., or you didn't. I tried not to spend much time at his place. I think he might be in the WPA now.

My close neighbors are mostly LEO's of one flavor or another. They seem to assume that everyone they stop or walk up to is packing.
But then, nearly everyone in my neighborhood is armed, including a fair number of octogenarians.

Yeah, I know guys with safes, and folks who use trigger locks. But for every one of those, I know three people who have a piece in the glove box or nightstand loaded and chambered.