Barry Baines
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1,145 appearances
30 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 3 Apr
Barry Baines’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Are your firearms secured? No, I keep one. I really need one for protection. Well, let's go to the park instead. Or let's, why don't the kids come over here? And then the third one, which just sneaks up on people is you ask and the response is, why would you ever think I'm such a beast that I would have a gun in my home? And you have to have a response of that, that
Well, there's 40% of American homes have a gun in it, and I just don't know. And so it's better to be safe than sorry. And you may have to practice that in front of the mirror. Practice it. Be prepared. Because I know one of my colleagues who asked and got that third response was so taken aback that she stopped asking, which is really unfortunate.
So let me jump in on that. And there's a couple of things. One is I need my firearm. I'm afraid of a home invasion. I would argue that In that case, you really want, there's biometric lock boxes that open in a flash. And you want to know that that pistol is in that box. Because I didn't have a chance to look this up, but many years ago, they did a survey in Austin, Texas.
They called people out and said, do you have a pistol in your home? Yep, I got a pistol. Where is it? It's in my bedside table. And they said, well, would you go look and verify that they went, came back and said, it's not there. Where was it? It was in the kid's backpack. But if you really fear a home invasion, you don't want that weapon going walkabout on you. You want to know where it is.
And it's in that biometric lock box, a hundred bucks at Dick's sporting goods or Menards or wherever you want to go. Um, But you want that pistol. And the other thing, we've changed. Our group, when I was at the University of Minnesota, was one of the groups that started eliminating smoking in hospitals. When I was in training, you could smoke in bed recovering from a myocardial infarction.
And we had, I remember somebody said, you know, I found, they said, your smoke-free program doesn't work because I found a cigarette butt in the back stairwell of the parking ramp. Well, no, it does work. And there will be people who resist. Probably 5% of the population will blow it off. But The other 95% will do it, and our kids can live with that.
I want to jump in on that. And I think that's the wrong question because that's saying, oh, this is somebody else's problem. If somebody else would just take responsibility, if somebody else would just take action.
Yeah, but we can't control them. We can't control them. I mean, it's like, you know, this thing at Fleet Farm where, you know, the straw purchaser, I can't control that. But what I can do and what each one of us on this podcast can do is ask and we can ask our friends to ask. Okay. So there's things we can do that will make a difference. Gotcha. Gotcha. Go ahead, Kathleen.
Yeah, the other question is, what about the kid at that home who's from the third household or the fourth household or the fifth household? Do we know they've been, you know, we don't. And so it's our responsibility to protect kids. I mean, that's part of the American ethos. And part of that is simply storing kind of safely.
Yeah. Besides just starting. Ring my hands over that. I mean, it's very easy to get going. I mean, in your social network, you can protect the kids by asking and by asking people to ask. And then it's done. You have protected the kids in your social network by being smart, okay? And yeah, it's, you know, it's... washing hands before delivering a baby took obstetricians 18 years.
Surgeons clean hands took them 25 years. Max Planck, the physicist said, you know, you never change anybody's mind. The old guys just die and the young guys grow up believing in your theories. And so we can hang the crepe around this, but the beauty of this is that we can change We can change in our social network almost overnight, almost overnight. And I want to go back to who has a gun.
I was talking to a preventive medicine doctor about this. And she said, oh yeah, my husband just bought a pistol. Like, oh, you know, like that would be the last person I would believe would have a pistol in their house. It wasn't. And so you never know. And so what you need is you need to have that comeback that says, you know, 40% of households have a pistol in them, have a firearm in them.
Many of them are unsecured. I just ask, thank you very much for securing your firearm, or thank you very much for accepting my question. There's no moral. It's not a moral question. It's not judgmental. But I want to hear some more from Theo and what she's been up to.
And our friend Rachel Weigert, who's a ER doc over at Children's, says the most disheartening thing in the world to hear is the wail of the parents over the body of a dead child. If you want to lose a friend, if you want to lose a friend, have somebody shot in your house. Remorse forever.
Lock it up separately somewhere else in the house.
Yeah, there is a spectrum. I mean, we like locked separately, both locked. If, you know, and this may be, you know, well, I need, I just am not comfortable with, having an unloaded firearm in that lockbox. Okay, that's not ideal, but it's a heck of a lot better than having it in your desk drawer. I wanted to go back to Barry with a couple of things. One, we can, I own a gun.
I have a rifle that's up at the lake. It's locked. It's got a trigger lock on it. And so I'm one of those beasts that own guns. But, you know, where we connect socially is we're all parents or grandparents and we can act. That's our social network. Okay. Okay. and whether or not we own a gun. And I really, you can tell, I really bristle at this idea of let somebody else do it, okay?
If we all take a little action, ask, ask to ask, We can solve this problem. We don't have to rely on anybody else. We can, in our social networks, we can solve this problem of unsecured firearms. We all own it.
We all own it. But what I like about Barry's example is this diffusion of innovation that when you see other people doing it, you do it. People like me lock up their guns. Oh, I better lock up my gun or I'm going to be embarrassed the next time I go to a party and somebody says, hey, do you lock up your guns? Oh, hell no.
I just I tell my kids, you know, stay away from them, you know, and then, you know. Yeah. And so it's this diffusion of innovation, of modeling. And that's this. And what we've been hearing is this is not should not be an embarrassing thing.
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