My problem is people always bring that up, but they never acknowledge that statistically, guns kept at home are responsible for way, way more accidental, unnecessary, and domestic violence-related deaths than they are lives saved (especially if you include intruders who were unarmed and didn't have intent to commit a violent crime). I would love to see legislation on how firearms have to be stored, because right now not only do people whose guns end up in the wrong hands not bear any legal responsibility for allowing it (whether passively or actively), it's like they don't even think there's anything wrong with allowing it. Like responsibility is just something that exists in the mind of the noble White Male All-American Gun Owner and not something that you can regulate and enforce and hold people to.
rex_dart 19th-Dec-2012 07:29 am (UTC)