If “safe” is the goal, and not “health”, then shouldn’t the VA offer railings for balconies, and hand rails for stairs, and offer a free check of your gas furnace?
Shouldn’t they offer free shower mats?
If any SOB asks about my guns, I think I’ll tell them to stuff their questions where the sun doesn’t shine and the wind only blows in one direction until they are ready to install non-slip floors in my bathroom...
•Drug overdose death rates have been rising steadily since 1992 with a 117% increase from 1999 to 2012 alone.1
•In 2011, drug misuse and abuse caused about 2.5 million emergency department (ED) visits. Of these, more than 1.4 million ED visits were related to pharmaceuticals.2
•Between 2004 and 2005, an estimated 71,000 children (18 or younger) were seen in EDs each year because of medication overdose (excluding self-harm, abuse and recreational drug use).4
•Of the 22,114 deaths relating to pharmaceutical overdose in 2012, 16,007 (72%) involved opioid analgesics (also called opioid pain relievers or prescription painkillers), and 6,524 (30%) involved benzodiazepines.6 (Some deaths include more than one type of drug.)
•In the United States, prescription opioid abuse costs were about $55.7 billion in 2007.7 Of this amount, 46% was attributable to workplace costs (e.g., lost productivity), 45% to healthcare costs (e.g., abuse treatment), and 9% to criminal justice costs.7
Just tell them "Try breaking into my home some night and find out".