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Originally Posted by Kenswing
Just trying to understand why you think such a measure would help.. You're the one who made the point that the lock should be installed at the time of sale. Just trying to understand the benefit..
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It's one tool to change how consumers use a product, that provides a pro-active approach to consumer safety.
Sort of like the seatbelt issue. Until it was a mandatory requirement for car manufacturers to build their cars with those seatbelts, most people didn't use them, even if their cars came with them. That was before USING them was made mandatory too. But once all the cars were manufactured with them, the use of them went up significantly. Only at that point, after seeing their use go up and un-belted deaths go down, did the states start mandating the use of these things that were required.
The same concept with trigger locks at the point of sale. If the thing comes locked, then that one singular minor inconvenience will set the psychological message to the buyer to correlate "buy gun" with "lock gun."
It's a simple, potentially effective, relatively inexpensive (considering that they have to come with some kind of lock or storage anyway) tool to "change the culture."
Is there some reason why anyone would be AGAINST the idea? Or any of the other ideas I suggested? Or is it another one of those "I don't understand, therefore I'm against it" things?