Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
- Banned
- #41
Wrong.No, law abiding gun owners are being penalized because of the negligence of others. The fact that there is a gun involved is just an aside since stupid people do stupid things all of the time. So far this summer there have been reported over several dozen case of people forgetting their kids in their vehicles during high temperatures and those kids losing their lives as a result. The suggested "trick" to help them remember not to do this - put their cell phone in the back seat so that they'll be forced to look in the back seat before leaving their car.Negligence
They can remember to look for their phone but not to check that they haven't forgotten their kid?
As far as I am concerned, if a person doesn't inadvertently leave their weapon in a public place, they lock their doors & windows, arm any security system they may have, etc. the weapons are secured however if someone makes it past all of that and breaks in, that's not negligence, that's being victimized by a criminal. This new Seattle law makes no distinction between the two and the U.S. Supreme Court has already decided in Heller than requiring a weapon to be kept in a state that renders it useless for defense (requiring it to be locked up) is unconstitutional
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008),[1] is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home, and that Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban and requirement that lawfully-owned rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock" violated this guarantee.
This is an incorrect reading of Heller, you clearly don't understand the ruling.
Indeed, the Supreme Court has never ruled on the constitutionality of gun storage laws. In 2015 the Court refused to hear a gun storage requirement case from California.
Gun storage laws are currently Constitutional until the Supreme Court rules otherwise.
Hate to bust your bubble but Heller V DC dealt with Hanguns in the Home and the right to have them. And to have them operational on hand if you want to. I just got through hammering the law into the gun crazies so don't think I won't hammer away at you as well. I don't side with either side. I side with the law.