“I did not allow my child to play at his best friend’s house because he told me that they had a gun.”
REALLY?!? I hope you applied the same logic to a house with either stairs and/or big screen TVs. More kids are maimed and killed every year, by a wide margin, by falling down staircases or by having big screen TVs fall on them.
I think your insistence that your kid not play at a gun owner’s house was more of a political statement than for safety.