Gun control

President Obama: We've improved cars and toy safety. Why don't we improve gun safety?

Why do we allow safety improvements and policies for cars, toys, and medications, but we don't seem to apply the same standard to guns? That was President Barack Obama's big question at the start of his CNN town hall in support of his new executive actionson firearms.

"There's nothing else in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can," Obama said. "Traffic fatalities have gone down drastically during my lifetime. And part of it is technology. And part of it is that the National Highway Safety Administration does research, and they figure out, 'You know what? Seat belts really work.'  And then we pass some laws to make sure seat belts are fastened. Airbags make a lot of sense; let's try those out."