More fun with UPI
This is pretty great. Anyone want to help me start a grassroots lobbying organisation working to ban gun safes due to the obvious danger they pose to children? Say what you want about responsible use and civil rights, the fact remains that, if the gun safe hadn’t been there, this never would have happened. And what’s more important? That people have access to what is, ultimately, just another luxury on a long list, or the safety and well-being of our children? Would you want to see your children locked up in a gun safe due to some careless accident?
"Oh oh," say the gun safe rights crowd, "but it’s for protection! I need that for my own safety!" The American trigger locks are the envy of the world. Do we really need private citizens having access to these dangerous gun safes just so they can feel more secure?
Won’t somebody think of the children??
I haven’t ever bought one, and I’m not sure of the practical applications (Can you tell a burglar, “hold up, man, lemme get the gun out of my safe. Now where did I put that combination?” and have him actually wait for you? Which wouldn’t be a problem with voice-activated locks, but still), so I don’t know what directions and warnings they come with, but I’m pretty sure leaving the safe 1) open and unlocked, 2) unattended, and 3) somewhere where children can freaking get inside, all at the same time, pretty much defeats the purpose of having one.
Comment by Nyperold | 16 March 2009