Gun in hand, 68 year old woman saves boyfriend in attack

[TeddyR]

91. So with respect to the first paragraph

There are a lot of pro-Second Amendment people on here that support those things. I'm all for UBCs and prohibiting felons from owning guns (I assume you are also ok with banning felons from voting - if they can't be trusted with a gun they shouldn't be trusted to pick our leaders). I oppose safe storage laws for the simple reason that they are unenforceable and unneeded. Unenforceable because law enforcement doesn't get to go into someone's home to see if they are complying and unneeded because a person that isn't going to store their gun safely as a matter of commonsense isn't going to comply with this (unenforceable) law. And by the way, I think that most gun owners here will tell you about their safe storage habits. I'm not sure what "tighter regulation on gun dealers" even means - the dealers I know all have to perform background checks so not sure what else you want.

I find the insurance argument to be tiresome -- what exactly is requiring insurance going to do? If the gun is used by a criminal then no insurance company on earth is going to cover the resulting harm. I can't think of a single legitimate reason for requiring insurance and the only reason to do so is to make guns prohibitively expensive.

Who is going to pay for "smart technology"? I hear this from those who favor control but there doesn't seem to be much interest in it. Bloomberg seems to have plenty of money - maybe he should provide the funds for this idea?