Diopolis wrote:Bromagia wrote:Counter point: Opiates are highly dangerous, especially to the young. There are zero storage requirements on them. Why? Knives are the same, as are vehicles and gasoline. These are all dangerous things in the wrong hands. Logically, they should all have storage mandates if firearms do. But they don't because that would be dumb.
I can see California doing that exact thing, btw.
Last I checked certain medications do have storage requirements, at least in quantity, and must be sold in childproof containers. I would definitely be open to mandating storage requirements that are stricter than what they have now. Gasoline and knives aren't quite as dangerous- or frequently stolen- as firearms.
Again, I'm actually in favor of storage requirements on more than just firearms. For example certain varieties of live animals, certain chemicals(pharmaceutical grade cocaine, for example), probably certain kinds of industrial machinery.
Sadly, the childproof and tamper evident seals are not to keep kids out... it's to see if some lunatic has been dropping pills of arsenic in with your cough-drops on the store-shelves.
Similarly, MSDS sheets exist to make sure workers don't accidentally make chlorine gas or a phosegene when mixing cleaning compounds (happens often, sadly; bleach and solvents is bad mojo; there's also a PSA that states rather plainly: Do not mix bleach and ammonia.)
In fact, don't mix bleach with other cleaners.
