"BEFORE" of Sadie Warden
 "After" of Sadie Warden. Another victim in 2012 of accidental gun death | There is something good to be said about being an idea generator. Unfortunately, if you exist with limited means (money, time, energy) it causes a great deal of anxiety because there is so much I want to do and not enough of things necessary to do them. First, I- like everyone else- am still reeling from the Sandy Hook tragedy. I couldn't sleep because of thinking about it last night. Reading social media and watching news stories, it strikes me that people like to argue about the details of the disaster-- what the killer did in what order, how to make all people mentally healthy, how to ban all guns. And nothing practical is being planned to SOLVE the problem. People don't know that, besides being lofty, air headed idealists, artists are fantastic problem solvers. Thats what a visionary is: someone who sees beyond the facts of what IS into what it could be. Its the essence of creation, itself. Its easy. A gizmo that is fingerprint operated that locks over the safety mechanism on a gun that can be removed My PC fingerprint reader takes 1 second to unlock my PC. If you can't turn the safety off, you can't fire the gun. In my thinking, the fingerprint lock's memory should only hold one unlocking fingerprint, that of its registered owner. Any other users should go through a registration process, too, imo. All guns should have these mechanisms over them. All owners should have them because rights come with responsibilities. |
This would stop 1. Gun thefts (because no need to steal a gun when you can't unlock it to use it) 2. Accidental firings from kids. 3. Mass murders from unstable/disgruntled relatives of people who own guns. It won't stop the actual gun owner of going postal, however.
The second saddest thing that happened this year is that a former student of mine died from an accidental gun shot wound in her back. Her name was Sadie Marguerite Warden. We met at an art fair and it was clear to me from meeting her once that she was a bright, loving, fun, goofy, talented, energetic and compassionate girl. She was 13 years old.
This is a good idea and solves several problems and disagreements at once. The problem is that I don't have the connections or money to do this by myself, but I'm going to try anyway, so help me God I will. If I had the money and know-who, it would be done already.
The second saddest thing that happened this year is that a former student of mine died from an accidental gun shot wound in her back. Her name was Sadie Marguerite Warden. We met at an art fair and it was clear to me from meeting her once that she was a bright, loving, fun, goofy, talented, energetic and compassionate girl. She was 13 years old.
This is a good idea and solves several problems and disagreements at once. The problem is that I don't have the connections or money to do this by myself, but I'm going to try anyway, so help me God I will. If I had the money and know-who, it would be done already.
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