I'm a primary collector and target shooter too, and that's why I'm in favor of it. Short of someone taking apart my gun safes, our guns are not accessible to strangers, would-be-brigands, or my kid (even his guns are not accessible to him). And, that's how I want it. I want there to be heavy financial incentive to someone to make sure that their guns are properly stowed.

I live in Colorado which has more restrictive laws now, but my area has a lot of "unsafe gun use" problems. The national forest service and sheriff's office have shut down a chunk of the Pike's Peak Forest because people target shooting can't manage to not fire downhill toward hiking trails/roads and emergency responders couldn't handle the number of calls they were getting from pinned down hikers. A guy camping got shot and killed by an errant bullet in Woodland Park this past July 4th weekend - a couple of years ago, a kid in our neighborhood shot himself in the hand while his stupid parents were home because he was putzing around with an unlocked gun...basically the attitude here is more lax, and if there are fines/penalties, they are hardly, if ever, enforced. Hell, the family we bought our house from is a classic case of foolishness too - the father had his 13 year old daughter practicing firing a handgun from a fully loaded clip, and when brass flew back in her chest, she panicked, swung the gun down, and fired through her thigh and into her father's ankle. This is a career military guy too! We go camping a lot and we have seen criminally egregious behavior at non reserved campsites (target fire across a white water rafting river, for example).

Living here has made me realize: a huge percentage of gun owners are fucking morons with their guns. I'm not saying it's everyone, but it's people like that who enable the culture where "everybody can own whatever they want, store it however they want, and it's their god given right to be an unsafe, blithering idiot." It's hard to see that behavior and agree that nothing should be done.

And I agree it's not the type of gun that matters. It's the type of person. And until we deal with that, we are going to keep having a huge problem. It's like drivers. It's not the car, it's the freaking driver. And we're okay with laws that set up penalties and restrictions for drivers who demonstrate a potential or intransigent disregard for the safety of others. I don't understand why we can't demand the same of gun owners.