Fiction is Our Reality
Although movies on the big screen allow us to escape into a different reality for a brief time, they do teach us lessons and provide information that resonates often long after the credits roll on the screen. These lessons and pieces of information weave into our daily lives and provide context and create ideas that are relevant to our personal existence.
Most viewers love the intensity of safe-cracking scenes in films like Ocean’s Eleven, Usual Suspects and The Italian Job. We involve ourselves in the lives of the characters and their actions. We want the heroes to win. Our brain retains the images of these scenes and sets us on a path to thinking about our own lives; in this case, safeguarding what is precious to us. We are reminded of the secret wall safes in the films and realize that in addition to our home safes, we can also have wall safes that add a certain subtlety to protecting and safe-keeping of our money, important documents, jewellery, and precious family heirlooms. In short, movies mirror reality and thus fiction becomes our reality.
In addition to wall safes as a unique feature to our homes, we must also be mindful of protecting our loved ones against accidental injury due to firearms. It is our responsibility as gun owners to secure and store this powerful tool in properly constructed gun safes. We have significant and reasonable gun laws in Canada, and it is our responsibility to respect the laws if we choose to own registered firearms. Further to this, installing a proper gun safe in your home is the only answer to ensure the protection of those around you, as well as to provide a secure housing for the firearms. Hunters and the like who store their firearms in gun safes are constantly aware of the whereabouts of their firearms and thus have greater peace of mind when they are not at home. The reality is that guns are destructive weapons. If put in the hands of untrained and potentially dangerous individuals, guns will harm and kill people. It is our responsibility to make the right choice to install gun safes in our homes.