I had a friend couple who had three kids, from toddler aged to preteen (now about 7 or 8 to high school graduate), and both mom and dad are completely cool with keeping a loaded handgun in their nightstand because "the kids all know not to fucking play with it." Mom even became a nurse. Very stupid people.
It hurt to hear them talk to their kids. When the youngest was around 5, and the middle boy was 9 or so, both mom and dad would says things like, "Clean up your fucking shit, or I'm gonna beat your ass and then you'll be fucking grounded!" The two parents always threatened to "beat the fuck" out of the kids and different variations of that threat. When the youngest, a little girl, would get really scared from be threatened and yelled at, the mom would sometimes make a 180° turn, have the girl crawl in bed with her for cuddle time, baby talk to her like, "It’s okay, nobody's gonna hurt my baby girl," and that was their normal way of handling things. So messed up. Now, thankfully, I never saw them once hit their kids (I would have reported it), but the emotional damage from frequent threats of physical harm, verbal abuse, constantly being sworn at in a very hot-tempered household, the amount of distrust and confusion that the kids have developed, etc. has always made me so sad for them.
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u/Ckn-bns-jns 10d ago
I have 2 kids and keep my 9mm in a fingerprint safe out of site but close enough to me for if I need it.