of course we agree on the fact that not any gun can be allowed in any hand at all times, the problem does not come from guns, but from the huge responsibility it implies, responsibility that needs to be taught seriously and plainly understood for the gun owner.
my rules on the subject are simple, and can be summed up in two points:
1) gun safety taught at school by certified instructors, and each year for each classes
2)the one wishing to carry a gun has to go through a specialized and, before all, standardized class about guns, their use (I’m talking about technique -if the gun you have in hand is grabbed by the criminal facing you, it means you have been poorly trained), the legal side with minor variations depending on the local laws, and what carrying a gun implies, a strong emphasis on the fact that it’s neither a toy nor “something that makes you cool” but a tool build to kill and on the fact that your behavior must be exemplary if you wish to carry or to own guns.
when you look at those points, you notice that it’s quite already the case, that the rule concerning the specialized class is already applied even if unfortunately they are not standardized, only the rule number 1 is still lacking: teaching gun safety at school. so as to ensure that the children won’t see the gun as “a tool of power” or “something cool (or “that makes you cool”)” but as a potentially deadly tool designed to kill.
concerning the study by the Center of Disease Control, my reproach will be that it doesn’t give the most important data: the context.
what I want to know when I read such figures is for instance if these death are gang-related, for instance; knowing how the phenomenon of gang is wide spread in the USA I’d like to know the background of the victims, because there’s a huge difference between the innocent bystander killed by a criminal and gang members killing each other as these last ones have chosen this way of life and the danger it implies and as a matter of fact are not “victims”, while the innocent law-abiding bystander has not and is, him, clearly a victim if he is killed by a criminal, accidentally or not.
[about my previous post, it seems that whatever the reason a problem occurred... I don't have the time to post it once again unfortunately, so, too bad]
