Actually that's a pretty common term down here in the ol' US of A. Even my family, a liberal post-hippie household, had guns in the house. Most if not all of my relatives had guns growing up, and about half were war vets anyhow, but there were no gun tragedies. Why? Because we had parents that didn't let us dick around with anything and everything. BAH.
I'm not terribly pro-gun (don't own any myself and don't really plan on it), and this is the sentence I trail off with an incomplete