That is better mitigated by gun safety classes in school. As this doesn’t interfere with the right to defend yourself and simultaneously teaches gun safety/literacy to kids.
I’ve literally seen children try to do something dangerous the second a parent looked away because they were told not to do something because it would really, really hurt them. Multiple times.
There’s plenty of ways that can happen. Maybe they are diligent about keeping their guns locked up when not in use, and don’t think they’ll need to consider telling the kid to not touch guns. Maybe there’s a communication issue between the parents, and they each assume the other is giving the kid(s) instructions like that and don’t want to repeat.
Not only that, telling the kid “don’t touch guns” when they’re 3 isn’t going to work all of the time, but it will work some of the time. There’s no reason to not tell this to kids at school since it costs nothing and can help keep them safe.
And with the direction you’re going, I’m going to head this off: having a licensing process requires a registry. I don’t trust the current administration to not abuse that kind of information. Plus, there’s a decent chance of a leak, resulting in criminals learning which houses have guns in them that they can break in and steal.
When seconds count, one doesn’t need to fucking around with a lock.
Ok but more children accidentally shoot themselves than there are home invasion self defense shootings.
That is better mitigated by gun safety classes in school. As this doesn’t interfere with the right to defend yourself and simultaneously teaches gun safety/literacy to kids.
The kids are often quite young, are you gonna have these classes in kindergarten?
A basic gun safety class? Why not?
I got one when I was a kid. At that age it’s ‘don’t touch the gun’.
When you get older it’s how to touch a gun.
As if “Don’t touch that” works, you think the parents of these kids didn’t do that?
I’ve literally seen children try to do something dangerous the second a parent looked away because they were told not to do something because it would really, really hurt them. Multiple times.
Yeah, there’s a fair bit who don’t
And those guys are supposed to be trusted to use a firearm responsibly?
There’s plenty of ways that can happen. Maybe they are diligent about keeping their guns locked up when not in use, and don’t think they’ll need to consider telling the kid to not touch guns. Maybe there’s a communication issue between the parents, and they each assume the other is giving the kid(s) instructions like that and don’t want to repeat.
Not only that, telling the kid “don’t touch guns” when they’re 3 isn’t going to work all of the time, but it will work some of the time. There’s no reason to not tell this to kids at school since it costs nothing and can help keep them safe.
And with the direction you’re going, I’m going to head this off: having a licensing process requires a registry. I don’t trust the current administration to not abuse that kind of information. Plus, there’s a decent chance of a leak, resulting in criminals learning which houses have guns in them that they can break in and steal.