The anti-gunners are using “gun safety” when what they really mean is gun control.

 

After youths’ deaths, victims’ families push for gun-safety law

Gun-control advocates are at the Capitol today to push for a bill that would require additional storage requirements for gun owners.

New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and victims’ families are seeking legislative approval for “Nicholas’s Bill,” which would would require the safe storage of all guns not in the immediate possession or control of the gun owner.

The legislation would require guns to be put in a safe storage depository or equipped with a locking device, with the goal of preventing access by children and others who should not have access to them, the group said.

“While New York State has some of the strongest gun laws in the nation, it has no child access prevention (CAP)/safe storage law requiring safe storage of guns when children are present,” the group said in a statement.

The group said that one third of U.S. households with children under 18 contain firearms.

The bill is named after Nicholas Naumkin, a 12-year-old boy from Saratoga Springs, who was fatally shot in the head in 2010 by a friend playing with his father’s handgun. The bill has support in the Democratic-led Assembly, but has yet to gain a sponsor in the Senate, which is controlled by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans.

In Naumkin’s case, the gun owner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a $250 fine. Naumkin’s mother, Oxana, plans to attend a news conference this afternoon outside the Capitol.

Also expected to attend is Alexandria Bodden, sister of Michael Graham. On Jan. 14, 2013, Michael Graham, an eighth-grader from Brewster, Putnam County, fatally shot himself using one of three unregistered handguns found in his father’s home.

Bodden, left, has been vocal that Graham’s death could have been prevented if their father, Douglas Graham, kept his guns out of Michael’s reach. Douglas Graham was sentenced to five years probation for illegally possessing the gun his son used.

The boy’s mother, Sheila Graham, 52, took her own life nine months after Michael’s death.

“If those guns were locked up and secured, or were never in the house period, this would have never happened,” she told The Journal News last month.

Source: http://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/politics-on-the-hudson/2014/04/29/youths-deaths-victims-families-push-gun-safety-law/8466239/

The comments on Facebook were brilliant:

If they outlawed stupidity they wouldn’t have to keep making up new laws.

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Far more kids die from unsecured cleaning products in a house than from firearms.

People need to focus on the real dangers facing children, not the ones made up by gun control lobbyists.

Not to mention bike injuries, medical errors, poisoning, etc, etc, etc.  If Nicholas Naumkin had drowned, would there be a bill to ban or restrict swimming pools? And how will passing a bill bring Naumkin back? Or even save a life? Gang bangers own guns illegally, are they going to secure their guns?

Or look at the case of Michael Graham, who shot himself with a gun his father was illegally possessing, yet the liberals are far more concerned with how the gun was stored.

Now don’t take me wrong, I’m not minimizing personal tragedies, but here’s the thing, we shouldn’t pass collective laws as a response to individual tragedies. I had a bad time with physical education as a kid, so while I support individuals choosing not to participate in physical education, I don’t demand its banishment.

Children are often told not to play with matches, and sometimes they don’t listen and burn themselves or cause a fire. Are we gonna ban matches now? Register cigarette lighters and demand their safe storage?

Parents, why don’t you childproof your kids instead of childproofing my country? Why don’t you teach them not to touch a stranger’s guns, knives, etc? That’s your job, not mine.