GUN SAFETY

Require gun owners to purchase liability insurance.
(Responsible Gun Ownership)
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/01/31/170700177/should-gun-owners-have-to-buy-liability-insurance
Some economists think states should require gun owners to carry liability insurance like they do for car owners.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/01/31/170700177/should-gun-owners-have-to-buy-liability-insurance
“The real problem with gun ownership is that they involve "externalities," which is economist-speak for the fact that your gun may be used to hurt others. When people fail to consider the broader social costs of choices like buying a gun, they're more likely to do them, and society suffers.”
“The economic answer is simple: Make potential gun owners take account of these potential social costs. One way to do this would be to charge an annual license fee for each gun you keep. Research by economists Phil Cook and Jens Ludwig suggests that the typical social cost of one more gun-owning household is somewhere between $100 and $1,800 per year. While that's a wide range, if we set a gun ownership license fee this high, it would force gun owners to face the true social costs of their choices, which would lead many fewer to buy guns.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2013/02/21/the-myth-of-gun-liability-insurance/#1cdd9a891028
“Gun insurance is a win-win proposal because of its reliance upon the market to assign and price risk. Gun manufacturers would have incentives to "customize" guns to the owner through biometric safeties.”
“In any case, liability coverage would offer great protection if a gun was lost, stolen or used by a third party to commit a crime. It's about public and private protection, not gun control. It's an idea that seeks to shield the public from harm without intruding upon private rights.”
Gun rights come with gun responsibilities.
(Responsible Gun Ownership)
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2670521
Fed up with the toll guns inflict on their patients, physicians joined with Illinois lawmakers to support state licensing of gun dealers.
http://www.responsibleownership.org
Require safe and secure storage of firearms to prevent access by children or unauthorized persons.
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/02/live-fire-training-not-mandatory-concealed-carry-permits/amp/
26 states will let you carry a concealed firearm without requiring firearm safety training.
https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/suiciderates6.jpg
States that require gun background checks have gun suicide rates 50% lower than states without those checks.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/11/opinion/liu-gun-responsibility/index.html
“A gun responsibility agenda respects the Second Amendment right to bear arms. It also demands that the right be exercised with the level of responsibility that a functioning society applies to any public health or safety issue.”
“ …..gun responsibility means accepting -- indeed, championing -- reasonable rules and standards for the ownership and use of firearms. Criminal background checks prior to gun purchases, to take one obvious example, should be completely noncontroversial. That's the bare minimum responsibility requires.”
“Criminal background checks can't prevent every gun death, of course. Similarly, speed limits and seat belt laws can't prevent every highway death. That is no argument for the repeal of either. It's just a reminder that our job as citizens is to make rules that reduce the chances of preventable harm.”
“This is the zone of common sense, where we each do what we can and where not every curb on our desires is a total surrender of liberty. This is where a large and growing majority of Americans live. Background checks, for instance, garner 80% to 90% support in most public opinion polls.”
“The idea of gun responsibility can and does appeal to people across the spectrum. A majority of NRA members would likely call themselves adherents. It's not about left versus right. It's just about being adult versus being immature. Adults know that every right carries an implicit duty to others -- that no right, constitutional or not, is absolute -- and they live accordingly.”
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2017-08-01/im-a-gun-lover-and-the-nra-has-lost-its-mind “A responsible NRA would be working for, not against, universal background checks on all firearms sales. As a responsible gun owner, it's my job to ensure anyone I transfer a weapon to is in fact legally permitted to possess one. That's the bare minimum due diligence that should be expected of me, and the vast majority of Americans and even gun owners agree. But not the NRA.”
I believe in responsible gun ownership.
The AR-15 is an assault weapon, not a defense rifle.
Irresponsible gun laws kill our children.
(Responsible Gun Ownership)
http://fox5sandiego.com/2017/06/19/guns-kill-nearly-1300-us-children-each-year-study-says/
Guns kill nearly 1300 children yearly. Doctors emphasize there are ways to restrict unwanted access.
http://jjie.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/children-and-guns-chart-featured.png
This chart shows by state the gun homicide, suicide, and accidental death rates for children.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/children-and-guns-the-hidden-toll.html?pagewanted=all
“In all, fewer than 20 states have enacted laws to hold adults criminally liable if they fail to store guns safely, enabling children to access them.”
“Legislative and other efforts to promote the development of childproof weapons using “smart gun” technology have similarly stalled. Technical issues have been an obstacle, but so have N.R.A. arguments that the problem is relatively insignificant and the technology unneeded.”
“Because of maneuvering in Congress by the gun lobby and its allies, firearms have also been exempted from regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission since its inception.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/09/deaths-of-children-are-the-most-devastating-effect-of-our-gun-culture-the-nra-has-no-idea-what-to-say-about-them/?utm_term=.c45e8d9ad9ee
“Over the past year, new studies and media reports have documented America’s extraordinary number of child-involved shootings. These occur when a child happens upon a gun, or is left alone with one, and ends up shooting themselves or another person. Such disasters result in hundreds of child fatalities and have made American children nine times more likely to die in gun accidents than children anywhere else in the developed world.”
Our children deserve responsible gun laws.
Responsible citizens support responsible gun laws.