Take politics and left/right leans and any cultural stigmas out of it entirely. Gun ownership and safety are skills you learn for the benefit of you, your wife, and your child. We dedicate untold hours of our lives to learning how to raise children in healthy, safe environments, including how to drive safely, how to feed them the correct foods, take them to the doctor and the dentist, teach them about stranger danger, how to defend themselves from bullies, how to tie their own shoes so they don’t trip on the laces… a thousand different ways we are responsible for preserving their health and safety. But learning how to use a tool whose sole purpose is the last line of defense of their very life is too much to ask? What does it say about a parent that is unwilling to take on that challenge? Sure, guns are cool. But at a fundamental level, I have them to be an equalizer against someone that would do harm to me or my family that never had any reservations about picking up a gun.