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Yeah, Ron Conway is one of our investors, and I'm planning to participate in the gun policy review technical stuff. (I hate the term "gun safety" since that refers to protection from accidents; which is a subset. We do have a problem with gun violence, primarily handguns. We have a much more minor problem with gun safety -- the number of accidental shootings is quite low. Resources should be devoted to reducing violence, and a lot of that is gun violence, and should be addressed by reducing availability of guns to those who are violent, and reducing the harm done when they do violence with guns. Reducing accidental shootings is great and all, but I pretty much trust industry/owner self-regulation on that front.)



Agreed - gun safety will do more for placating the fears of the populous rather than actually reducing gun violence.

I think the low hanging fruit here is the smart-safe idea #3 in your post above, which I commented on...

My #6 though would be great to be able to get handling data.




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