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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes because when The Liberal Kills a woman it's totally fine.[/quote]

No, because when something happens to harm someone with pretty much any device besides a gun there is an investigation into how to make the device safer and whether we need to change laws/regulations to decrease the likelihood of something like that happening, again.

That's how we ended up with, for example, mandatory seat belt laws and a host of other car safety features as well as laws against drunk driving.

On the other hand, when gun owners do something stupid, we get, "Stuff happens. No law could've prevented it," instead of any kind of thoughtful analysis of how such incidents could be prevented through modifications to guns and/or gun-related regulations.

And when some idiot goes on a Rambo rampage, we get, "Stuff happens. The only thing that could stop something like this is a good guy with a gun. If it had been me I would've rushed the guy. It's a shame we don't focus more resources on helping the mentally ill," after which the Republican lawmaker who has never been in any life threatening situation goes to the floor and votes for yet another budget cut to the social safety net and systems that could actually provide mental health care.

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Firearms go through the same type of continuous safety improvements that cars do.  Do you really think firearms today have the same safety features as guns made in the 1800's?  There have been many improvements over the years to prevent both catastrophic failure and inadvertent firings.  And those type of improvements continue today with smart guns or personalized guns being the latest technological safety features being developed.
The ATF and SAAMI are the two main regulating agencies.  Please see their sites if you want to learn more.
ATF - https://www.atf.gov/firearms
SAAMI - http://www.saami.org

Here's a list of various firearm safety features
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_%28firearms%29[/quote]

[b]Uh, what are the odds that someone accidentally shoots themselves or their family with a civil war era musket?[/b]

And as for the smart gun thing, I believe that is what the NRA actively opposes.[/quote]
If they are actively using it the odds of a catastrophic failure would be much higher than a modern firearm.  The odds of injury from powder burns would be extremely higher.  Assuming the civil war era musket is loaded and ready to fire, the odds of inadvertently firing it would be higher than inadvertently firing a modern loaded firearm.  The musket would have no pin/fire safety feature and no trigger pressure regulations.  The musket could go off accidentally far easier.  Is this not easily understood by you?[/quote]

I know that loading a musket is a multistep process, that the hammer has to be pulled back and a firing cap has to be placed on the gun and is clearly visible.  It is also a long gun.  This makes it exceedingly unlikely that some toddler shoots his grandma in the back, or that someone mishandling the weapon accidentally fires and shoots someone.  [/quote]

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