If you would look at the site you would see what 'serious gun laws' means.
Hi hank,
Thanks for the heads up, but...
For me, it still doesn't answer the question. I can go over some of them here.
1. Child access prevention. Sure, we can make laws that firearms need to be locked up securely in a home where children are present. Yet we have children every year that find a firearm in their parents nightstand or dresser drawer or closet. So, how do you enforce such a law to make it effective? Do we send a police officer into every home with a firearm each night to make sure their weapons are secured? So, how serious is a gun law that there really isn't any effective way to enforce? Yes, we can all go in after the fact and play arm chair quarterback as to 'how', if the person had kept the law, such a thing wouldn't have happened. Will that bring a dead child back to life?
While we only see a handful of cases that make the news where a child found a firearm in their home that wasn't secured, I rather imagine that the reality is that there are a lot of homes across America where a firearm sits pretty readily accessible to a child in that home. Now, maybe some of these parents are very strict with their children in telling them not to go rummaging through their stuff, but I believe that a lot of children 'know' of a firearm in their home in a drawer or closet, but the issue never comes to light so far as a child in that home committing some crime with that weapon. But, the question is how effective such a law really is?
In a study found here:
Study: Parents Don't Lock Up Guns
Of 286 ER room visits for gun related accidents in a home, only 57% claimed that they locked up their weapons. Friend, that leaves 43% of gun owning families with firearms accessible to pretty much whoever lives in the home.
Here's a claim made by another site: . Despite the mounting body count, no one has asked the National Rifle Association why they
tell parents not to lock up their guns, or even reported
that the NRA
tells parents not to lock up their guns. (
Here’s What Happened While The NRA Told Parents Not To Lock Up Their Guns)
So, if that's such a great law and reveals that people are serious about gun control, then why isn't it the law nationwide? Do you think that support of the NRA's position might be the reason?
2. Disarming dangerous people. How's that working out for us? Everytime that someone who seemed to be a fairly normal person for most of their life; living lives that many of us likely live, we have to redefine what constitutes a 'dangerous' person. Further, how do you effectively disarm a 'dangerous' person. If I'm in a gang, I think that most people might consider me a dangerous person. How does the law prevent me from holding a firearm in my hand? I likely can't have one registered in my name, but that isn't likely to stop me from having access to a firearm. So, how will the law effectively disarm dangerous people, even if they could possibly come to any agreement as to what constitutes a dangerous person? Is that considered a 'serious' law?
3. Open carry restrictions. Despite the claim that this might be a good idea, we have more laws coming on the books approving of open carry than we have of preventing such a practice. Even if it would constitute a 'serious' law. It isn't going to be worth a hill of beans if fewer and fewer places adopt such a law.
4. Prohibiting access to domestic abusers. Again this is similar to the 'disarming dangerous people' laws. How do we effectively prevent a wife or husband who becomes intent on killing their children or their spouse with a gun from either hiring someone to do it or getting access to a firearm themselves through non-legal methods?
Now, I'm not going to go through all of the rest as they all have their failures in effectively controlling gun deaths through particular gun ownership laws. However, I think it telling that the rating chart rates 30 states as 'D' or 'F' and only two states as 'A-'. So, the question must be asked. If 'serious' gun laws would make a dent in gun violence, then why are their so few states that even bother to attain a 'B' or better? Any chance that it could be because of the support and power of the NRA?
Just askin?
God bless,
In Christ, ted