{"id":65986,"date":"2016-05-25T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65986"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:45:34","slug":"that-gun-debate-thing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65986","title":{"rendered":"That gun debate thing again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> has decided that we need to reinvigorate the the gun debate. Now, they’re wringing their hands over that fact that a five-year-old girl, Haley Moore<\/a>, of LaPlace, Louisiana, got a hold of her father’s handgun and killed herself the other day. Apparently, her father went to take a shower and didn’t put his gun up while he was doing that. It was a tragedy – there’s no other way to describe it. But the Washington Post says that it’s proof that we need “smart gun” technology;<\/p>\n

What should not get lost in trying to make sense of the senseless is how much the nation has lost by avoiding serious debate on this issue for so long. Some 33,000 Americans each year are killed by guns. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

If we actually debate ways to manufacture a gun, say, that a 5-year-old can\u2019t accidentally fire, many lives might be saved. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, here’s the thing. I have five-year-olds in my house all of the time and none of them have even put their hands on my guns. I lock the guns up in a safe where they can’t get to them. I’m always mindful of who is in my house, and where my guns are in my house – I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only one.<\/p>\n

Even if a viable “smart gun technology” existed, there are millions of guns out there that don’t have the feature to work their actions. So, how will that help? The only thing it will help is to make the Washington Post editorial staff feel better about themselves because they had a “debate”. How’s about we have a debate about enforcing existing gun laws before we saddle legal gun owners with even more useless laws and unreliable technology that won’t stop anything – well, anything except the hand-wringing.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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