Gun Safes Make Sense, But Not For Every Case

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Dave Martin

I’m a big proponent of locking up your guns, especially when you have children in the house. What I’m not a fan of, however, are laws that require people to do so.

Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article all about how laws requiring such things are good.

When a 12-year-old boy died last week in Westchester County after accidentally shooting himself while playing with a gun at home, police officers reminded the public to keep guns away from children.

A similar warning had been issued by different officials a few weeks earlier, when a 10-year-old boy on Long Island showed off a loaded gunin the school cafeteria. The boy was charged with criminal possession of a gun on school grounds.

More of the same came after a 13-year-old boy shot and killed a 14-year-old girl in Syracuse in January, and a 17-year-old boy accidentally killed himself in Westchester in February. It is a situation that is all too frequent in New York and around the country: At least 63 unintentional shootings by …Read the Rest

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