But okay, I'll bite. If we really wanted to reduce accidental shooting, and/or shootings by people who take guns from family members, then why not a government program to distribute free (or at least subsidized) trigger locks?
Not a perfect solution, but it is a solution that would not infringe on anyone's right to own a gun, and likely would reduce firearm deaths. So why don't the gun grabbers push that?
I'll tell you why -- because it might seem as if they were tacitly tolerating gun ownership, and making it appear that guns can be made more safe is not an idea they want to promulgate.
And if unlocked guns lead to some extra deaths...well, that just helps build the case for more gun control!
“why not a government program to”
... teach safe handling, via hands-on live-fire training, to everyone in public schools?
Kali already forces you to buy a gunlock for handguns and prove ownership of a safe when buying long-guns if Im not mistaken...
maybe it was just me they hassled ,,
Not a perfect solution, but it is a solution that would not infringe on anyone's right to own a gun, and likely would reduce firearm deaths. So why don't the gun grabbers push that?
Let me be the first to jump in on this. I haven't purchased a firearm in more than 20 years that has not come with a trigger (or action) lock in the box. Does anyone actually use these things? I just toss them in the lock box with the others. I'd be interested in knowing how many negligent discharges have occurred over the years by people attaching locks to firearms with the magazine removed but that have a loaded chamber.
(The majority of "children" killed by firearms are urban gangsters and they range up to the age of 25.)
The reason that urban liberals won't do anything that would actually reduce gun homicides is that they want to continue to have the issue to make speeches about.
If I bought any guns lately, they came with locks.
Ownership of firearms and ammunition are a right as is voting. No poll tax to vote, there should be no tax on firearms and ammunition and in the interest of safety that should be extended to gun safes and trigger locks. I don’t believe the firearm that’s keeping you safe should be locked up.