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NRA Pushes For Gun Question Ban

By WINK News

Story Created: Nov 5, 2009 at 4:53 PM EST

Story Updated: Nov 5, 2009 at 5:17 PM EST

Do you think questions about gun ownership should be a part of the adoption process?

The NRA wants lawmakers to ban the questions from being asked while potential parents are seeking an adoption.

Advocates say it's no different than asking another parent if they have a gun in their home before allowing your child to enter that home.

Critics say this is invasive questioning and amounts to an unauthorized gun registry.

Wednesday, Nov 18 at 7:12 PM mike west wrote ...

there are more children injured or killed from skate board accidents than from guns.

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Monday, Nov 16 at 11:10 AM david whidden wrote ...

A law abiding citizen having firearms in his or her home is no one's business except theirs. I have an adopted son who has been exposed to firearms for about 23 of his 25 years of life, and he is a responsible, law-abiding, productive citizen who has never threatened the safety of himself or another human being with a firearm. However, his life has been threatened twice by automobile accidents while traveling to and from his work place.

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Sunday, Nov 15 at 4:09 PM PK wrote ...

If that question is used to eliminate potential adoptive parents, then something is terribly wrong. The correct question should be "Do you have trigger locks on all the guns in your home?" This will eliminate irresponsible gun owners only, as well it should.

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Tuesday, Nov 10 at 7:31 AM Don wrote ...

This makes sense ONLY if parents are asked if they have any of the following in the home: Knives, scissors, thumbtacks, saws, cars, hammers, electric frying pans. Guns in the home do NOT make a home dangerous - irresponsible gun OWNERS - untrained owners - make the home dangerous, just as irresponsible knife owners, or irresponsible frying pan users make the home dangerous. Wake up, folks - if you disarm law-abiding citizens, ONLY the crooks will have guns.

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