GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

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So you feel its OK to teach kids about the safety aspect of sex and or the dangers of texting and driving, but not OK to teach them guns are dangerous? That just seems kinda assbackwards to me.
I understand how it seems to you.

Yes, I feel it's OK.

To me, teaching kids sex education and driving education is preparing them for life after (and in some cases, during) high school. All kids have sex organs and most will drive (though hands on driver's ed is not part of school anymore where I'm at; it's through private driving schools now).

Anyway, handling guns is not a natural part of adulthood and shouldn't be promoted as such, in my opinion. For those parents who wish to indoctrinate their kids to guns, there are private resources offering that service; it's shouldn't be at tax payers' expense.

What would be wrong with having a rebate or tax cut program as a incentive to gun owners so it helps prod them towards locking the guns up? The expense wouldn't be that great compared to the bottom line of what this country tosses around already. Remember when this country went digital on our TV's the gov even gave us all a kick back so we could buy those damn converts. And that wasn't a safety issue.

As I said, I could see some subsidization for a while in order to help those who already have guns and can't afford to buy a safe. And, I don't have a problem with any safe manufacturers/retailers offering rebates and discounts on their products to gun owners or anyone else. That's their business decision and the more safes in gun-bearing homes, the better. But, an ongoing "tax write-off" isn't warranted or appropriate, in my opinion.

Why does it always boil down to do what you are told or go to jail?

It doesn't. It boils down to break the law and get caught, get charged (if the laws are enforced). You get a speeding ticket whether you hit someone or not because you broke the law and endangered other people. If you break the (hypothetical national) law and leave unsecured loaded guns in your home with children and they get ahold of them, you get charged or cited for the same reasons. That's my view of how it should work.

But guns are a part of life and should be treated as such. If they were not a part of life we wouldn't be having this discussion. I don't think Firearm safety education would solve the issue, but it wouldn't hurt. The more they hear about the dangers the more it will sink in. Now I know there would be a issue teaching anything having to do with guns in our school system. I mean the way people cant even wear a shirt with a pic of a gun on it, or even the entire pop tart BS, but maybe a off campus safety course taught by licensed/permitted adults would be worth while. It might not be a part of the curriculum but make it accessible.


I agree that the rebate/tax cut or what ever we want it shouldn't be a ongoing thing. I should have made myself clearer on that. I think it would be a good use of taxpayers $'s to look at a system like this. Maybe do a dollar for dollar match with the gun owner or something, but anything would make guys like me look at the system and quite possibly use it. Maybe do a setup where the gov pays the first couple hundred and then matches you dollar for dollar. That way a person that only had a few guns could get a inexpensive safe for little or nothing and guys like me that will need multiple safes will be able to afford them.


I think if you are going to make a law requiring guns to be locked up then we should look twice at my comment about safes above.