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BamaD -> RE: Another "successful" carry story (1/21/2015 12:53:41 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
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Tell yourself whatever you need.
Everyone favors safe guns duh.
Everyone favors knowledgeable gun owners, again, duh.
Neither is the problem here. No doubt she knew better, if asked about leaving guns unattended. But how do you outlaw someone making a mistake or showing poor judgement. We already have laws making people responsible for such actions. Do they work all the time, no, would adding another law making it doubly illegal affect a persons judgement no.
What would change that? Only education.
Gun owners have an obligation, not to make firearms mysterious and hidden but, to educate their children about them and to make them something, like the stove, that you don't mess with. Don't tell me it can't be done because I have done it.
Public schools need to provide firearms safety training, just like they do drivers ed.
And we need to stop pretending that somehow everyone who owns firearms, and everyone who carries is somehow responsible for people who misuse them.
Most of this comes from people like you who, by your own admission, know virtually nothing about firearms.
This is a tragedy and if you have a good idea how to prevent it, without disrupting everyone's rights in the process (and I didn't say you wanted to) great. But you haven't done that. You want new safety measures on firearms but you have no idea what they would be. You want to "do something" about seeing to it that people can't show bad judgement but you don't say what it is.
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