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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (18841)	5/14/2000 11:49:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

'Morning, haqihana, and a happy mother's day to you! <ducking, giggling> Many citizens now have the right to carry a concealed handgun. Good for them, I say. Such guns would be entirely useless without a trigger lock. I can see situations (like Mom was a little slow in transferring the Glock from her holster to the safe) where Junior could gain inadvertent access in a "good faith" situation. That's why I think it would be overly strict to equate the occurrence of accidental acquisition situations with adult negligence. Manure doth occur. The bigger issues that you raised - keeping the "unfit" from owning guns - are incredibly thorny. I don't think that it can be avoided 100% in a society with any concept of freedom. We can work on ways of minimizing it, but the only way to prevent it would be to meet the long-term goal of Handgun Control, Inc. and the other enemies of the Second Amendment. And that is - no firearms at all outside uniformed military and police organizations, and closed collections like a museum. Nothing less will accomplish the goal of total risk reduction. Since I still advocate allowing the citizen to keep and bear arms, I'm always attentive to ideas on how to preserve RKBA and still keep society and family "safe and sane". The best I can come up with is education, education, education. Teach kids about guns ... they're dangerous! Teach adults that owning a gun is a responsibility ... one that can be avoided by not owning the gun, or rendering it inoperable. ...It's a start.