every firearm can be totally disabled without tools for safe transport or storage. My pistols can be field-stripped, or partially disassembled, for cleaning, and my rifle can have its bolt removed. If weapons can't be taken partially apart this way, they should be banned as inherently unsafe. And the ability of a gun owner to do this should be part of the purchaser vetting process. If you can't do even the most routine maintenance on a firearm, you obviously don't know how it works and therefore are unqualified to own it, much less carry it.
The other issues you bring up are valid, but the same can be said for any law, whether it be traffic regulations, airline safety, boating rules, sports safety equipment, etc. The purpose of regulation is not to make bad consequences impossible, it is to make them less likely.
There are now enough privately owned firearms in this country to equip every man woman and child with one. That's too many.
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- It is such a relief to know that guns didn't kill these kids.
- Two very different statements. But they have the same effect.
- If we can accept the coming healthcare mandate then seeing your neighbors house searched should be easy. n/t
- Now there you go: reasonable suggestions.
- After reviewing all our comments below, methinks we are all missing the obvious.
- Outrage is very satisfying.
- Well, first, it's dereliction to not express outrage even if a solution can't be seen (yet).
- Sympathy vs. outrage.
- As you point out they are not mutually exclusive. However, outrage can be constructive.
- When you get your magic wand working, you will have to let me know.
- We both have the same goal.
- Please disregard that hiccup. If it's in our genes...
- If it's in our genes, and we
- We both have the same goal.
- When you get your magic wand working, you will have to let me know.
- Some perspective:
- As you point out they are not mutually exclusive. However, outrage can be constructive.
- Sympathy vs. outrage.
- Well, first, it's dereliction to not express outrage even if a solution can't be seen (yet).
- Stand on Zanzibar-- John Brunner, (1968)
- Second Amendment Pornography.
- Re: It is such a relief to know that guns didn't kill these kids.