Toddler Wounds Both Parents With 1 Shot From Handgun

[The Comrade]

You could jus
t as easily use a bow.

[Southern Dad]

[Southern Dad]

[Dylan]

[John Galt]

its really not though

anything can hurt people. anything can be a weapon. a drill, a wheel, and some wood i saw turned into a semiautomatic weapon that could fire multiple javelins per second at speed of about 70mph. the device was aimable with little amount of effort. i saw it on mythbusters and i thought: WE MUST BAN WOOD

guns are dangerous sure, but that has f**k all as to whether or not they should be regulated. they are so important to our country that we have enshrined the right to own them in our constitution, which specifically says that right cannot be infringed. since as you would say the bill of rights has been applied against the states, the right cannot be infringed upon by any government entity. so the position of gun ownership is the very solid one, and frankly all the other stuff surrounding it doesn't even matter in the end: it can't be touched without changing the constitution

[Professor]

Guys - the answer to this isn't "Banning GUNS!". The answer is to make it so that guns cannot (with a high probability of confidence) be fired by accident or by other than the intended user.

Seriously, fingerprint scanners are like $25 nowadays (retail - wholesale and bulk would be ~$10-$15). Put one in the grip of the gun so that the gun will not fire except after verifying that a registered user is wielding it.

Or, just accept it. After all, we've got much bigger fish to fry. Even by the stats that I posted in the other thread, there simply aren't that many accidental shootings per year. Far more purposeful ones. But, even those are outweighed by things like cancer, heart disease, and car accidents.

[Indy]

[eric]

Guns may be "created" to kill, but the vast majority are not (consumer US purchases). So what really matters is the practical use.

And guns are regulated, like explosives. So what's the problem?

I don't mind a safety course, and most sensible gun owners (which happen to be most of the gun owners) aren't going to object to that either.

And yeah the two year old did whatever. Oh well. Life sucks sometimes.

[Dylan]

[Southern Dad]