“We need to develop new technologies that make guns safer. If we can develop technology that you can't unlock your phone unless you've got the right fingerprint, why can't we do it for guns? If a child can't open a bottle of Aspirin, we should make sure that they can't pull the trigger on a gun.”

-- Pres. Barack Obama, while announcing a series of executive actions to strengthen background checks on gun purchases. Sadly, the response from the right-wing “hear-nothing” crowd was typical.