"Secondly, the App was a honeypot. As a gun owner myself, I am all too aware of a smaller component of the community that sees any attempt at improving gun safety as an affront to their second amendment rights. Reasonable regulations that do not interfere with anyone’s second amendment rights – such as universal background checks and trigger locks when guns are unattended in the presence of children – are needed to help abate the gun violence epidemic in this country. But some places in the United States seem committed to going in the opposite direction, as in Florida where a law was passed preventing medical doctors from asking about gun safety in the home as they might about swimming pool safety. So, the project is also a culture-jamming exercise intended to draw out earnest expressions from the radical anti-gun-safety community, expressions that will now become part of a second phase of the project which involves aesthetic manifestations. The app itself will remain online for a time so that people can play with the user interface, after which it will morph into a purely “documentation” application about the project."
This is the attitude that has allowed such things as the Brady bill and NFA to passed.
Background checks, permits, etc do infringe on rights, not only 2nd amendment rights but 4th amendment rights as well. Not to mention how wrong it is to be required to be ask permission to exercise one's rights...which is a violation of one's rights in itself.
Trigger locks, safes (not the general use of them, just the requiring that ALL firearms be locked up, unloaded, etc. unless in immediate use), storing ammo separate from firearms, etc....yeah, and attackers are just going to be so willing to give people time to access them.
There is no such thing as a "reasonable regulation" on a right.
There is no "gun violence" or any other violence issue....there is a people issue. Not to mention, why they are so determined on blaming the gun (the object) instead of the person is way beyond me...oh wait, no it's not...it's a control thing...control over people...trying to shove a socialist dictatorship down our throats.
And statements like "radical anti-gun-safety community" are easy manipulative triggers. Gun owners of all kinds are the biggest proponents of safety...but it should be left up to each individual to decide what and how. Sure there are some irresponsible people out there, but there actions should not turn into punishments, hassles, regulations, etc. for the rest of us....each individual judged separately according to their actions alone...
Not to mention, there is no need in keeping things away form children completely...try educating...education/training is the only true way to make people safer with objects.
"United States seem committed to going in the opposite direction, as in Florida where a law was passed preventing medical doctors from asking about gun safety in the home as they might about swimming pool safety. "
How about because it is none of anyone's business how my firearms are stored or that I have any kind of armaments at all? Nor is it anyone's business if I have a pool or any other object...it's my property and my business...stay out of it.
Also, "smaller component"....last I checked it was a very large and growing loud component.
These people make me sick...claiming "oh, I'm a gun owner....[blah, blah, blah]" then spitting out that they want restrictions left and right.
