GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[blueberryhill]

No I am not in favor of making laws/rules forcing people to secure their firearms.
Yes I do feel the parent/guardian should get charged if the child gets ahold of their firearm due to their neglect and causes a death .

Edited to add . . . I would have answered this question first had I seen it. However I did not see your edited post until after I made the above post.

Sorry for the slow edit, F.U. -- got a phone call while updating.

Anyway, thanks for answering the question directly.

It's tough. Some states have laws requiring secured storage of firearms in homes with children. That's not very enforceable unless a crime goes down in that home (gun-related or not) and the gun/homeowner can be charged with failure to properly store firearms.

IMO, however, the greater value is that such a law may prompt responsible gun owners to take the required measures to securely store their guns and create a more safety-oriented mindset (and living environment for their children). I wouldn't mind seeing such a national requirement/law mandating secured storage of firearms. Then, IMO, there would likely be fewer cases where it was appropriate to charge grieving parents for the irresponsible negligence which caused their children's injury/death/trauma.

So, why are you opposed to a safe store requirement? You still got a few loaded guns within reach, when you're awake and asleep, regardless of who's in the home, for your own perceived safety? How do you feel about safety locks on guns as opposed to locked storage safes and such?

I oppose safe storage laws because they are just another hoop a gun owner would need to jump through. Should a gun owner want to take part in safe storage great, but don't make another unenforceable law.

Instead of making a new law to force safe storage down our throats I think the subject should be approached from a different angle. Why not talk more about preventing the loss/theft of our firearms? That may raise more positive attention than forcing another law upon us. Plus have you seen the price of gun safes? Holy Moly ! Maybe do some sort of tax credit, or refund, or something like that to lower the price and in turn promote the sales of said safes .
But that's just me thinking out loud.

O.K. this is where I really get irate.....I know i will alienate some of you gun lovers, but i try to be true to myself. I don't care if everyone doesn't like me. My time remaining on this earth is limited and i care about what happens to my grandkids and their kids, etc.
Most of you who post re right to bear arms, etc.. really get tiresome. You should have to jump through a lot of hoops and this is where the problems emerge. You don't think you should be inconvenienced at all, not one little bit. If you want that right, then pay whatever it takes, to prevent "not so bright" people from harming themselves. I think there should be a lot of paperwork, etc. to own gun, and names placed on some type of universal list, names, serial number to the extent that every gun is registered in some universal data base. We lead the universe in gun related deaths because it is too easy to get a gun. It should not be easy process....I so disagree with the statement, that every citizen has right to bear arms, outdated, and dangerous....For just awhile, focus on this issue and don't compare it to automobiles, knives, axes, tire rods, fireplace tools, bricks, hammers, ropes, etc. as weapons.