All Sorts of Safety for Kids

I subscribe to the notion that there is a way to both make children and firearms safer. Look, it took us years to put seatbelts in vehicles to lessen the likelihood that there would be fewer deaths and injuries. Some people ranted and raved at the prospect of having to wear seatbelts and some cussed up a storm that it became law. In the final analysis we are all the better for adding this safety feature to cars.

Surely we can make sure that guns are safer. If the proposition is that guns and kids can be kept safer, as the starting point, why on earth wouldn't we want to take steps to ensure that both occur?

Let me go back to the car. You have to have a key to start the car (okay, I realize that many cars are keyless now). Is it possible that a person with a firearm would have to have a key to operate it? No key, no use of the gun. It is a random thought but, the point being, we need to sit down and take seriously any number of ways to improve gun safety and the safety of our citizens.

As I've intimated throughout the week, the fact that a 9 year old was gunned down ought to make all of us take seriously what the implications are for our friends, neighbors and families. Time to pull together.

Dick