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Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

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2. Right.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Fri Jan 8, 2016, 04:13 AM

Jan 2016

"Why manufacture guns that go off when you drop them?" asks professor of health policy David Hemenway '66, Ph.D. '74. "Kids play with guns. We put childproof safety caps on aspirin bottles because if kids take too many aspirin, they get sick. You could blame the parents for gun accidents but, as with aspirin, manufacturers could help. It's very easy to make childproof guns."

Virtually every handgun produced today is drop-safe, despite there being no federal mandate to make them so. You can send your "Thank You" cards to the individual manufacturers or simply send one card to all of them in care of the NSSF.

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Death by the Barrel [View all] SecularMotion Jan 2016 OP

I thought this was going to be about mustard gas. ileus Jan 2016 #1

! pablo_marmol Jan 2016 #4

Right. Straw Man Jan 2016 #2

"It's nice," he says, "to have raised my son in Massachusetts, where he is so much safer." pablo_marmol Jan 2016 #3

You dredged up a story from eleven YEARS ago? benEzra Jan 2016 #5

Well, it ages better in a "barrel." Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #6