"Connecticut Judge Dismisses Newtown Lawsuit Against Gun Maker"

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141. Less than 100 kids under 15yoa are killed by gun accidents each year...

Any number of deaths is tragic, and folks are doing something about it: The number killed has been falling precipitously for many years even as the number of civilian guns in circulation has gone up. Notably, the Shooting Sports Foundation has distributed some 30,000,000 firearms locks, and by now most arms are stored in safes and lock boxes, not the pretty wooden gun racks with drawers so familiar to me when young. THESE MEASURES have driven down the gun accident rate to a pale semblance of itself compared to decades earlier. In fact, far more kids are killed by drowning, falls, electrocution, poisons and other causes than by gun accident. In a time of limited resources, time would be better spent campaigning for measures protecting kids from these far greater dangers.

As for hi-tek solutions, let the development continue, and if people want them, they will get them.