Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Gun control for, "wealthy, white individuals who wish to be safe" Wow, just frickin' wow! [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)Gun-related deaths are, by a huge margin, either the result of suicide or the result of homicide. A tiny fraction of gun-related deaths a year are due to genuine product failures such as mechanical malfunction or failure. A dropped gun discharges, perhaps, or a gun slam-fires, or something equally rare.
The overwhelming majority of gun-related deaths are either from being used as a tool of suicide, or a tool of homicide. It is not a design or manufacturing flaw that causes the depressed or the terminally ill to wrap their lips around a gun and pull the trigger, or the callous criminal to gun down a store clerk for the contents of a cash register.
Conversely, crib deaths are due to very small children having fatal accidents due to some design flaw in the crib. Baby murders are not being enabled because cribs are the preferred choice for infanticide, nor are toddlers committing suicide with cribs.