Unsafe at Any Range: Treat Guns Like the Consumer Products That They Are

[Jerry442]

5. I'm in favor of guns that are designed to make accidental discharges less likely, but...

...it seems to me that this will only take you so far. Haven't done the research, but I suspect that most deaths and injuries caused by guns happen when the gun does exactly what a gun is designed to do.

I think another strategy would be to put the costs imposed by gun use on society onto the purchase price of weapons.

Another is to stop treating guns as religious icons. If someone is showing menacing behavior toward someone else, it's a bad thing, whether the menacer is using a gun or a claw hammer. Similarly, if someone dies as a result of negligence, it should be treated the same, whether a concrete block or a gun is involved.