More from the PVP gun rights lawyer

In case you missed it because you were busy celebrating Independence Day on Friday, we ran a profile about a Palos Verdes Peninsula resident who is a gun rights lawyer - and how recent developments on that front have left him right in the thick of things.

During an interview last week, Chuck Michel and I talked a little bit about applying gun philosophies to the home, especially when children are there. He said some interesting things about it. For one, he doesn't let his sons play with "toy" guns because they encourage sloppy and unsafe handling. Both his kids have gone through gun safety classes, which mostly teaches how to stay away from guns and notify an adult if you see one.

So, while his kids weren't exposed early-on to firearms, they still picked up a lot from pop culture. He mentioned you can't even get away from guns on the Disney Channel. One day, when one of his sons was still quite young, he bit his quesadilla into the shape of a gun and pretended to shoot it.

His philosophy is that guns are so prevalent, like it or not, we better figure out how to co-exist safely with them. He realizes that this doesn't always make him the most popular guy in the room, but he's got his reasons.