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In reply to the discussion: My ideas for sensible gun control [View all]backscatter712
(26,355 posts)30. Most firearms are equipped with safeties of some sort.
Be they safety switches, or mechanisms that prevent the gun from inadvertently firing (the Glock has three such mechanisms). Of course, there are still accidents, and still deliberate shootings, but that doesn't mean gun manufacturers write off safeties as useless and stop building them into guns.
There are lots of situations where an idiot is drunk and pulls a gun, or a conflict escalates and an asshole pulls a gun in the heat of passion, or some tweaker gets a hold of a gun and fires it while robbing a 7-11 without thinking things through, or any one of a million other conceivable incidents. RFID interlocks could prevent a few tragedies, and camera footage could become valuable evidence.
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those are all good ideas, but someone could follow all of those rules right up until the moment they
dionysus
Dec 2012
#2
I honestly do not have much issue with your list. My only question is if this would have....
Logical
Dec 2012
#3
Yes, hard to say if a 20 year old would not have had access to the guns anyway. Most adults....
Logical
Dec 2012
#11
True, but am I the only one who thinks that drinking and packing should be as serious as DUI?
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#12
I actually posted something similar in response to the Virginia Tech Massacre
FunkyLeprechaun
Dec 2012
#22