woodguru wrote:
Laws designed to prevent kids from being shot by guns that are easily accessible by kids have proved to dramatically reduce this kind of tragic "accident".
Laws requiring guns to be secured in households with kids make sense, no handguns laying around in nightstands, carried in the backseat of cars, left unsecured in any way where kids could get them.
Growing up, as a teen we had three teen aged kids shot with guns. Teen age boys are curious about guns, it's the way it is, two of these incidents were friends showing their friends their dad's guns when they went off, k*****g their friend.
The one that's hard to even talk about was how close I came to shooting a friend with my dad's .45, my dad didn't think I was ready to shoot a .45, but I was good at getting into the cabinet where he kept it. These have to be handled by people who know how to handle a gun that has quirks. I was racking the slide, holding it sideways and missed my friend by a small enough margin that his sweat shirt had powder burns. Tragedies happen that quick, and if you think I was a disobedient boy that somehow deserved that you are wrong. I was a normal curious boy with a love and fascination with guns and hunting.
A much better cabinet with better locks would have prevented me from shooting his gun without supervision. That is what laws designed to keep kids from accidentally getting their hands on guns is about.
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Since when has tough laws stopped criminals from doing what criminals do? Why don't you enlighten me by showing the tough laws that has slowed down the criminals. Or I'll make it easier on you, show me any law. Detroit has enough gun laws to chock a horse but it's murder rate is 65.5 per 100,000, Saint Louis 64.6, Baltimore 55.2,New Orleans 40.4, Kansas City 31.7, Cleveland 33.4 and on and on. The average for America is 4.5 per 100,000. So let's look at these cities with sky high murder rates and find the common denominator. All these cities have no jobs, high poverty, no way out, massive gun laws, and all long histories of being in Democrat control. When you are ready to use something but emotions to discus the issue and the problems along with their cures let me know. With all the information I have seen it would point to tyrant democrats disarming the good allowing them to be easy pray for the criminals. Plano Texas has more guns per citizen than any place in the nation it's murder rate in 1 per 100,000. Get rid of democrats, give the good back their Second Amendment, problem solved.
If I were you I would buy me some guns and take responsibility for you and your family's safety. Anyone suing a police department for the death of a loved one that could have been prevented lost because police are not there to protect anyone from anything. Police are there to protect the population as a whole. Not you or me.
As far as keeping your guns under lock and key that is common sense. If I was reckless keeping loaded guns out and about my home I would still have no worry because my girls and my grandsons all know gun safety and how to use fire arms. It was drilled into them with bb guns before they were big enough to hold them.
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785