(April 21, 2020 at 11:51 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: A lock might not stop everything, but that's no reason not to have locks on your doors anymore than it's a reason not to lock up your guns, in accordance with the law..when they're stored where a child can access them. If we want guns and kids, then we take reasonable precautions and follow the laws applicable to both. There's nothing difficult about doing this, at all, because in both cases the laws are veeeeery permissive.Now - now we get to the meat of the matter.
No law, about anything, stops every infraction that the law is meant to preempt. Locking up our guns would help, and at the very least, it would give you legal cover, lol.
Locking your guns up gives you "legal cover". What you want is legal indemnity from owning guns. Godsdildo Sama made it even more clear - he wants a gun range or gun shop to take ALL physical responsibility of gun ownership.....
What a chickenshit notion.
If you own guns YOU are responsible for them.
If you lock up all your guns - it's a real simple thing for a bad guy to steal them. He simply puts a gun to your kid's head and says "Open the safe".
You're fucked.
If only you had ready access to a gun.
Or - don't own any. Nobody says you have to own one.