An article on KSL today reports on yet another new group dedicated to "gun safety". "Bulletproof Kids Utah" is ostensibly aimed at reducing suicide and accidental shootings. It looks like the group is teaming with sellers of gun safes and such to encourage "safe storage."
Sadly it also looks like they may have some connections to "Utah Parents Against Gun Violence" (because all other forms of violence are ok?? :dunno: ).
I think you can often tell a lot of about a person or group by the company they keep.
And in the wake of Heller/McDonald and a couple of decades of legislative and political losses, I think it is clear that the gun grabbers' new tact is to push "safety" and "safe storage." We need to be very careful here. While there are lots of good reasons to lock guns up, we need to resist the notion that there should ever be legal requirements to lock up guns. We also need to prevent the creation of a recognized standard of duty to lock up guns in order to avoid any negligence charge following misuse of that gun.
The easiest place to defend is in the area of theft. "No victim of theft should ever be further victimized by being held responsible for what a criminal does with the stolen property."
With accidental or suicidal misuse from kids we have to tread the thinner line between encouraging proper storage "for the individual's situation" while not conceding any legal duty to lock up guns generally, or even because a child is in the home. If a top shelf is sufficient for medicine or chemicals, then a top shelf ought to be sufficient for an unloaded firearm.
Charles
Sadly it also looks like they may have some connections to "Utah Parents Against Gun Violence" (because all other forms of violence are ok?? :dunno: ).
I think you can often tell a lot of about a person or group by the company they keep.
And in the wake of Heller/McDonald and a couple of decades of legislative and political losses, I think it is clear that the gun grabbers' new tact is to push "safety" and "safe storage." We need to be very careful here. While there are lots of good reasons to lock guns up, we need to resist the notion that there should ever be legal requirements to lock up guns. We also need to prevent the creation of a recognized standard of duty to lock up guns in order to avoid any negligence charge following misuse of that gun.
The easiest place to defend is in the area of theft. "No victim of theft should ever be further victimized by being held responsible for what a criminal does with the stolen property."
With accidental or suicidal misuse from kids we have to tread the thinner line between encouraging proper storage "for the individual's situation" while not conceding any legal duty to lock up guns generally, or even because a child is in the home. If a top shelf is sufficient for medicine or chemicals, then a top shelf ought to be sufficient for an unloaded firearm.
Charles