Bells, you misunderstand. Still, or purposefully.
How do so many children have the opportunity? Why do parents leave their weapons unsecured, off-safe, with a round chambered?
Again, making laws and enforcing them will not prevent stupidity.
We seem to be breeding for stupidity these days...
A large portion of parents who leave their guns unsecured, out of a safe and loaded and/or with a round chambered face no punishment from the law when their child kills themselves, injures themselves or another person.. It is deemed an accident.
Do I think making laws and enforcing them will prevent stupidity? Yes, I do. Currently, there is very little requirements in place for gun owners to store their firearms safely.
There is also a general push from gun advocates to prevent scientists and law enforcement from even gathering data on gun violence, even gun violence which involves a child using said gun to either shoot themselves or anyone else. So we cannot even be sure of the exact figures. Doesn't it strike you as strange that gun advocates lobby to prevent even the gathering of such information? What could they possibly have to fear from knowledge?
Why would they even deny doctors and medical personnel the right to
warn parents of the dangers of not storing firearms safely in the home if they have children in the house?
Doesn't that trouble you at all? Doesn't it make you question why go so far as to prevent encouraging safe gun storage in the home?
Who does it hurt? Who would stand to lose if there were laws in place requiring safe storage of firearms?
Whose rights are being infringed if such laws were put in place?
The parents who own guns? They can still own whatever guns they desire. All that is required is that those guns be stored safely away and if they are not, and a child gets their hands on said guns, then the parents should be held responsible (which in more than half the cases of children getting their hands on the family firearms and shooting others or themselves, the parents get away with their irresponsible behaviour without any charges).. It certainly would not hurt the children.
Let me ask you this, do you agree with drink driving laws, that can result in you losing your driver's license if you are over the limit?
For example, say your child is with you in the car, and you are 4 times over the limit, and you crash your car and your child ends up being gravely injured or dies as a result. Should you be arrested and charged?
Or should they just put it down to a tragic accident and declare you have suffered enough and let you go off, give you your driver's license back and off you go?
That wouldn't happen, would it? You'd be charged. You'd lose your driver's license. Probably your car too.. Drink driving laws and enforcing them stops stupidity. Sure, some people still do it, but they are arrested and charged when caught.
But if you leave a loaded firearm within reach of your child and they shoot themselves with it by accident, you can walk away, without facing any criminal charges and you would get your gun back to go on your merry way because they would declare that you had suffered enough and it was a tragic accident.. Does that sound right to you?
I'll leave you
with this:
- More than two-thirds of these tragedies could be avoided if gun owners stored their guns responsibly and prevented children from accessing them. Of the child shooting deaths in which there was sufficient information available to make the determination, 70 percent (62 of 89 cases) could have been prevented if the firearm had been stored locked and unloaded. By contrast, incidents in which an authorized user mishandled a gun — such as target practice or hunting accidents — constituted less than thirty percent of the incidents.
You said that you did not believe that making laws would stop stupidity..
Do you think doing absolutely nothing to stop stupidity that results in loss of life is a good way to stop it? Do you think passing laws and/or
lobbying to encourage and enable parents to be stupid when it comes to guns and access to guns for their children, is a good thing?
Would you do nothing if you noticed that someone had left a loaded gun within reach of their children, because you can't stop stupidity?
You want to know what is really stupid?
- 72 of the young victims either pulled the trigger themselves or were shot dead by another kid.
- In those 72 cases, only 4 adults have been held criminally liable.
The stupidity stems more from gun rights advocates who demand that no measures be allowed that would restrict children's access to firearms..