Anonymous 3 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 2:51 pm
Traci_Momof2 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 1:50 pm
Smarties wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 1:13 pm
For every story like this, there are more where the gun saved a life.
I'm going to the range this weekend to practice myself.
Glad to hear this woman's son will be okay. She should not have brought her gun into this situation.
So how do we make gun owners like this woman be more responsible? How do we make sure gun owners aren't accidentally shooting their own kids? How do we make sure their kids aren't accidentally shooting their other kids? How do we make sure their kids aren't getting ahold of their guns and bringing them to school?
Because it's not about the right to own a gun. It's not about obtaining them legally or illegally. It's about keeping the kids safe. It's about the fact that every kids' right to be safe supersedes anyone's right to own a gun. So how do we keep the kids safe while also protecting gun ownership rights?
How do we keep people from driving drunk/impaired or texting and driving? Because kids get injured/killed more often in that scenario than accidental gunfire-I’m guessing.
IMO we need much more strict punishments for driving infractions because what we do to people now is a F***ing joke. People get off way too easily on all driving infractions.
The difference between driving and gun ownership is that you really can't argue that driving is a right. We are taught from the beginning that driving is a privilege and that privilege can be revoked. So when we ask how we can protect kids better from car accidents, the answer is clear - revoke those privileges and don't give them back so quickly.
But it's harder to just revoke gun ownership because gun ownership is a constitutional right. It's not a privilege that we can just take away when people do it wrong. At the very center of the whole gun issue is the 2nd amendment RIGHT to bear arms. So protecting kids AND protecting that right becomes a huge conflict.
