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beardown

(363 posts)
8. Welcome to the confiscation conundrum.
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 02:22 PM
Jan 2016

Although, your message is somewhat backwards as it's usually control pools, control poisons, control fires, ban guns.

Reaganesque simple, but unworkable solutions have severely damage the gun control and gun safety issue as it has driven the two sides farther and farther apart and thus undercut and prevented more manageable and measured solutions.

How?

If you had a pool in your backyard, would you be more inclined to work collectively on pool safety issues and regulations if the person you were working with on regulating higher fences around pools and mandatory pool gate locks kept saying that we need to ban all pools? A better example would be that the person was saying lets require every pool to have a helicopter parked next to it so it could hover over the pool to rescue drowning people, oh, and lets ban pools. Why work with a person with a non-solution whose real goal is to ban pools?

As to the questions about where to post accidental child gun deaths. My question is why post accidental gun deaths and not accidental child fire deaths? It makes it look like either you don't care about fire death kids or you have an agenda or worse yet, both.

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Another household made safer by guns and the gunslinger mentality. n/t Binkie The Clown Jan 2016 #1
Hi and welcome discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #2
Thanks SoCalMusicLover Jan 2016 #4
IIRC this was an incident... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #9
Most figures put childhood death-by-gun accidents below 70/yr. "Daily?" Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #11
to put in context gejohnston Jan 2016 #3
How Sad SoCalMusicLover Jan 2016 #5
accidents with guns and poison have dropped gejohnston Jan 2016 #6
Welcome to the confiscation conundrum. beardown Jan 2016 #8
And how many OD's on legal RXs??? ileus Jan 2016 #10
On your person or locked up. ileus Jan 2016 #7
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