Andrea Brauer: Texas should provide free gun locks to save lives

[striker55]

Katy PD office had a box of locks in the lobby, help yourself.

[Beiruty]

I have so many, I am willing to give them out for free. Actually, the only time I used them is when I took some of my collection for a gun show and I had to secure my collection from being snatched. I wouldn't let a $5k a piece disappear in a blink of any eye.

[baldeagle]

Keeping a firearm in a locked container, unloaded, is the equivalent of parking your car in the garage with an empty gas tank. You might as well get a bicycle.

It's always laughable to read opinions of people who know nothing about guns expressing their ideas about how to solve the "gun violence" problem. The idea of actually getting to know their subject before pontificating on it never crosses their feeble minds.

[rotor]

The article stated
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 70 percent of fatal child accidental shootings would have been prevented if the gun had been stored, locked and unloaded."

How are the other 30% getting killed? Using the locked gun as a hammer?

[Flightmare]

The article stated
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 70 percent of fatal child accidental shootings would have been prevented if the gun had been stored, locked and unloaded."

How are the other 30% getting killed? Using the locked gun as a hammer?

I hear some children learned how to do that in school up in Missouri.

[Soccerdad1995]

Here is a much better idea. Mandatory firearm safety / familiarization classes as part of common core education standards.

How do I contact MDA so they can start pushing this much more effective idea?

[Jusme]

I already suggested the Eddie Eagle program to them - they reacted worse than a vampire to a crucifix. Can't imagine why - it *is* for the clidren, after all, and if it saves just one life it's worth it. Right?

But that doesn't fit their agenda, they are not interested in protecting children, their plan is to make us lock up our guns so they "feel" safer. I guess they don't teach their kids to stay out of the street either, next we will all be required to buy cars that automatically shut down if kids run out into the street. It all comes down to we don't like something so rather than take responsibility for teaching our kids, we want you to be restricted as much as possible.

BTW my new AR came with a gun lock if she would like to have it. It is still new in the package, never used, and is in danger of gathering dust at my house.

[K.Mooneyham]

How about we all just mail our unused gun locks to her? Can you imagine the look on their faces when all these packages of gun locks come flooding in?

I'm in the same boat with a lot of you, I have several of them that I just flat don't need or want. I don't have any little kids around to worry about, and even if I did, most of my firearms are secured in a steel cabinet.

[TexasJohnBoy]

http://www.projectchildsafe.org

http://csgv.org/action/cancel-2-4-milli ... gun-lobby/

Shut the heck up.

[Frankie]

I have a surplus of gun manufacture provided gun locks. MDA should provide me some firearms to use them on. I Hate to see them sitting there doing nothing!

[JALLEN]

The idea of actually getting to know their subject before pontificating on it never crosses their feeble minds.

This strikes at the very foundation of the Internet, so tread carefully. Empires are at stake!

I've suspected for a long time that the Internet is an experiment run by the sociology department at a midwest liberal college with Federal funding, it goes without saying, to prove whether or not an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite length of time would produce all the Great Books.

They have had to surmount a number of problems. First, an infinite length of time is really, really long. They will have to resort to some statistical alchemy on this.

The second problem was where to find an infinite number of typewriters. It turned out that the solution to the third problem resolved the second problem rather neatly.

The third problem was originally rounding up all those monkeys and the logistical difficulties of supplying all those bananas, not to mention the environmental impact of all that errr, banana waste. It also turned out to be surprisingly difficult to keep all those monkeys at their keyboards when they weren't eating bananas. Monkeys get bored and start throwing banana waste at other monkeys, neglect their typing for hours while they pick parasites from each other's coat and other distractions.

The invention of the Internet resolved all those difficulties, with only moderate violence to the original inquiry. First, with the Internet, there is no need for typewriters, ribbons, paper, etc. The savings on this alone were dramatic.

Secondly, the Internet allowed (required) substitution of humans to replace monkeys. This was a Godsend! Humans not only provide their own bananas, and take care of their own wastes, and use keyboards, they are far, far easier to keep motivated to spend countless hours happily pounding away without boredoom or respite, and the output is not particularly distinguishable from that of monkeys.