Vulcan,
How does this sound to you, as a child might lie dying: "Well officer, I thought it was safe in our closet, I thought it was out of reach, no I didn't realize they knew how to load it". Sounds like a cliche? Hey its how you store your firearm right now.
It sounds like that child was rummiging around in someones home without the permission of the homeowner and suffered the consiquences of poor judgment due to pi$$poor attention by his/her parents not teaching him/her fundimental morality and respect for the property of others. In essence those parents created the foundation for their off springs death. Punish the real culprits, the parents who did not care enough to train the child and keep track of it in another persons home. Laws like this eventialy make the gun owner outside of the protections of due process, nor protect them from unwarrented search and seisure. They open the door to unannounced government invasions of law abiding citizens lives and property.
That is why King Georges army got its bu## kicked out of America. The Liberal Media in the U.S. wont post the number of incidences where police get shot in the dark for kicking down the wrong door of a law abiding gun owner who thought he was being robbed. You only hear about the old ladies they scare to death, or the old men they arrest for pointing a gun at them when they kick down the wrong door. There is a thriving death toll now in the wrong young man being shot in the wrong house while he was calling 911 on his cell phone because his home was being invaded.
By the way, australian gun ownership is such a small percentage of what it once was that yes 97% of the owners comply due to being scared spitless of the threat of unannounced government invasions of their homes whenever the governments agents want to for storage inspections. In effect australian gun owners are a special class of citizen with fewer rights than non gun owning citizens of your large island. And yet your criminals still have fire arms and other wheapons and are still carryiing on a thriving business.
You still sound like you are afraid of people with guns and see restrictive laws on gun ownership as the answer to your personal distrust of humans bareing arms. Law is the handmaiden to the insane illusion that it is humanities God given right not to be responcible for the consiquences of their actions. So then they create a government.
