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In reply to the discussion: Can anyone make a coherent argument that guns are LESS dangerous than cars? i doubt it... [View all]rrneck
(17,671 posts)You want trigger locks? Fine. Every law has to be enforced. To enforce a trigger lock law the infrastructure to verify compliance has to be in place. Three hundred million guns and eighty million gun owners, how many people do we need to enforce compliance? Or do you prefer heavy penalties if a gun is used wrong that didn't have a trigger lock? Okay, prove the person in charge of the lock was negligent. Locks can be picked. Firearms can be loaned. There will be no way to meaningfully assign culpability, and every gun owner and district attorney knows it. And the political fallout will be another "liberal nanny state law" that does nothing. The Democrats that supported it will get voted out in favor of Republicans.
I own trigger locks and I use them. But I also know that nobody can make me use them. And anybody that stops and thinks about how a law mandating them will actually work will know it too.