I have 3 children who all grew up with guns in the house. Education is the key to keeping them safe. Just because you lock yours up, you never know what others that your kids come in contact with do with their guns. Some data that might help put this in perspective is from a book "Armed" by Gary Kleck. There are statistics in the book that show more kids are killed by pools, household cleaners, or matches than guns. That isn't combined either. Any one of those kill more children than guns in the US. The book is a bit dry, but very informative. The author is not an NRA member or even a gun enthusiast, but the data he collected shows that more guns does not equal more crime or gun deaths.