You can't make people "be safer." More often than not, they respond to such alterations by acting in a more unsafe manner; they believe they are protected by the object's built in safety devices, and fail to use ordinary precautions because they feel they're uneccessary. This leads to an even higher injury/death rate. The law of unintended consequences rears its ugly head.
Hmmm. Can you say, "Trigger locks."? Ahhh, yes, I thought you could!
Yes, I know, they are inherently dangerous, so not a good comparison in that respect. Still, I'm sure we all see the correlation.
