I think I feel alluded to in this post, the risk for a child is always present in many places and objects, but more than the risk of the object itself, which must always be prevented in some way by the parents, is the purpose immersed in each object and the meaning that that object can have for a child and it is there, where the maturity that the child has to face the object and its possible uses has great importance.

Neither children nor adults perceive a sewing machine as a potentially deadly object, perhaps that can make parents neglect us before the risks that may also involve, coincidentally my grandmother had one of those Singer machines with pedal and wheel and I sat on the pedal to turn the wheel, playing that it was a car and never had the impression that the machine could hurt me or I hurt someone with it, because potentially we do not perceive it that way.

Something similar happens with the bow and arrow, although we know that they are objects that can be potentially deadly, for the times in which we live, we associate them more with a sporting or recreational purpose, which involves risks that must be mitigated with appropriate instruction for their use is correct.

However, holding a firearm already has the psychological impact of putting in someone's hands an object whose objective is to kill, and although its proper use can be as safe as that of a bow or a sewing machine, I do not know statistics and I venture to believe that it is easier to be seriously injured by bad manipulation with a firearm than with a bow or a sewing machine.