Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix
People still need to be smart enough to understand how the "safety features" work, be it on a car, a gun or anything else that's potentially dangerous to operate. If the person handling a gun doesn't understand the functionality of the safety feature then it doesn't do much good.
In your example above, that kind of backup safety feature probably saved 100 people for every 1 that didn't use it properly because they were just a plain bad driver and shouldn't even have been behind the wheel. Now if she would have been a total expert driver, she probably wouldn't even need rear view mirrors let alone a backup camera and proximity sensor system. I'm sure there are safety features on firearms that have help way more people handle it more safely than not.
And as I've proven, too many don't, regardless if it's cars or guns. Point being that woman was an idiot. No amount of safety devices were going to save her. She managed to override all 4 of them, and wreck her vehicle in the process. You have the exact same situation with guns. You can either operate a motor vehicle safely, or you cannot. The exact same can be said about firearms. It doesn't matter how many safeties they have or don't have. No mechanical device can, or will protect someone from themselves. Politicians have been trying that for years. How successful have they been? And let's at least be real. You don't have to be a, "totally expert driver", to back your car out of a garage without wrecking it.