09-28-2016, 12:46 AM
(09-28-2016, 12:38 AM)taramarie Wrote: Hm ok then potential owners should go through a procedure about gun safety AND safe storage. I do not know what the procedure is over there but i hear so many cases of little kids getting hold of them and accidentally hurting or killing someone. So teaching them about how to store a gun safely should be part of the procedure on getting access to a gun. Should be common sense but unfortunately some people are clearly imbeciles. Kids can get into things. Obviously keep it in a locked area with the key somewhere they cannot get into or in a high spot away from the child with the lock on.
Generally they do but as tragic as such accidents are they are pretty rare. Keep in mind that the total number of deaths due to firearms accidents are on the order of 1500 a year and have been decreasing through the years. Laws on this are resisted because idiots like Eric the Obtuse would put insane rules in place that would mean the gun would be rendered useless. Perfect safety is simply not possible if you want to have individual liberty.
Now that I think of it unfree nations tend to be even more dangerous to live in.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises