Gun Control thread (merged many)

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Oberon

This is true, but it's not so much the act of making a firearm safer but the motivation that I'm comparing in this situation. I mean there are some third party things you can use, trigger locks and the like but otherwise it does limit you to newer firearms with the special fingerprint locks and such. So, rather than make the weapons safer, which is a good move for future weapons but won't help older ones, the focus should be making the users safer. If you can't improve the gun, improve the fleshy thing holding it in other words. But just sitting back and saying that there's nothing that can be done is ethically and morally wrong in my opinion anyway.

Tough one to make people change their behavior and the ones that need to the most are likely the last to comply. For example, why do people still not use seat belts. They're easy to use and new cars are annoying if you don't, but some just won't wear them anyway.