I am seeking your advice on how best to address my concerns about the Gun Safety article (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_safety ). Although the article is entitled “Gun Safety”, the content is restricted to safe handling of firearms and prevention of un-intentional firearms injuries. I have attempted to correct this shortcoming by adding the following sentences immediately after the restrictive definition of “gun safety”:
The phrase "gun safety" is now frequently used to refer to measures that go beyond the prevention of unintentional injury. This includes efforts to reduce gun ownership by persons not prepared to assure safe use of guns and policies aimed to reduce firearms homicides and suicides.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Please refer to the wikipedia article on Gun Politics for further discussion of this broader concept of gun safety.
A couple of editors have deleted this additional language, insisting that the initial sentence of the article (” For discussions on politics concerning firearms and gun safety, see Gun politics.”) deals adequately with the concern I have raised.
On the Talk page for the article (see the section entitled “The Scope of Gun Safety”) you will find a summary of my arguments and references as well as the responses of the editors.
In brief, I believe that as currently written the “Gun Safety” article does not meet Wikipedia’s NPOV standards: "Editing from a neutral point of view (NPOV) means representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources." The editors resist inclusion of any language that acknowledges a currently common, broader understanding of the concept of “Gun Safety”.
What would you advise?
Thanks, Bob Pond (talk) 05:28, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
As of this update, the "Gun Safety" article has been modified to address my concerns. If you have time to consider the issue, please take a look at the latest comments in the section on "The scope of gun safety" section of the articles Talk page. Thanks Bob Pond (talk) 19:49, 21 December 2012 (UTC)