GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[HairOfTheDog]

Technology. Public health experts cite many ways we could live more safely with guns, and many of them have broad popular support.
A poll this year found that majorities even of gun-owners (like F.U.) favor universal background checks; tighter regulation of gun dealers; safe storage requirements in homes; and a 10-year prohibition on possessing guns for anyone convicted of domestic violence, assault or similar offenses.
We should also be investing in “smart gun” technology, such as weapons that fire only with a PIN or fingerprint. We should adopt microstamping that allows a bullet casing to be traced back to a particular gun. We can require liability insurance for guns, as we do for cars. All very simple answers to the secondary problem. The first problem is the complicated one HoTD. Address those two issues.

Thanks for informing me that F.U. is a gun-owner, Gunnar.

I'm well aware of F.U.'s changing position(s) on universal background checks; we've exchanged no less than 20 posts on the subject.

I understand what the polls reflect. Too bad the NRA and the politicians it owns don't listen to their more rational members and the public as a whole.

I don't have a strong opinion or knowledge about the merits of replacing current guns with 'smart guns', aside from it likely reducing gun violence committed with stolen guns. Outside of that, I imagine, putting a 'smart gun' in the hands of a violent, homicidal, or suicidal person won't make anyone safer from violence, homicide, or suicide by those hands.

So, I'll stay out of the "technology is the solution" discussion for now.