Posted on 04/08/2014 7:20:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How old am I? I’m old enough to remember when the only people on whom government wanted to put electronic bracelets were criminals. Attorney General Eric Holder testified yesterday on Capitol Hill about gun-safety programs promoted by the Department of Justice, which wants almost $400 million in the next budget for “common sense” regulations like electronic bracelets for firearms:
“I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe,” he said.
“By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon.”
“It’s those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights, but at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis,” Holder said.
First, the electronic bracelet concept has barely passed the theoretical stage, let alone made it into the commercial market. There is literally one pistol model being sold in one gun story in America which fits Holder’s “common sense” requirement. How exactly would that allow Americans to “enjoy their Second Amendment rights”? Most gun owners — and there are over 60 million of them — handle and store their weapons safely. More people get murdered each year by body parts than by rifles, for instance, which had been the focus of gun-control efforts over the last sixteen months.
Drunk drivers kill nearly twice as many people each year as all firearms, and that figure may be seriously underestimated. Driving is already a government-regulated activity, so why not focus on installing breathalyzers in autos? Because when people need to drive, they don’t want a failing breathalyzer unit to keep their car from starting, and since most car owners don’t drink and drive in the first place, they don’t want to be treated like a criminal just to exercise their privilege of driving on public roads. Why should law-abiding citizens have to deal with the same kind of system malfunction at the precise moment they need a firearm to defend themselves or their families?
“Common sense” would be to leave law-abiding citizens alone. Of course, “common sense” would also be to not traffic rifles to drug cartels across the border into Mexico without any way to track them or retrieve them, so we know what role “common sense” plays in Eric Holder’s DoJ.
I think a tattoo on the wrist is more appropriate.
Not going to happen until Congress has bought all the stock in the bracelet business that they want.
Just another way of knowing who is armed and who isn’t.
Maybe all FedGov workers should be chipped so we can track all their activities.
This is what happens when criminals run the government. They make criminals of everybody else.
Yes, I think it would too. These people are so insane!!
Funny I just posted the link to Global Digital Solutions Inc on another thread...to Scott Brown, Carpet bagger running for Senate in NH.
http://www.gdsi.co/page11.html
The fix is in...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3142034/posts
http://www.gdsi.co/page11.html
Scott Brown-D, Mass, is running for Senate in NH... officially this Thursday...
They already are on it... we tax payers are so slow! hahaaa
http://www.gdsi.co/page11.html
Read this... also know Scott Brown-(R) that votes like a D, is now running for Senate in NH. A fake Indian, Lizzy Warren, from the tribe of Harvard on the banks of the Cambridge, beat this clown in Mass... so off to NH like a true carpet bagger.
Also GDSI made a fake offer to buy Freedom Firearms Group... truly a scam, with a RINO Advising them... Scott Brown...My advice to NH something Smells, if it is Brown, Flush it down.
Search Global Digital Solutions, Remington on any search engine...
Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren plans to advocate for gun control, assault weapons ban in U.S. Senate
http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/12/senator-elect_elizabeth_warren_2.html
Scott Brown was no different, he wanted the assualt weapons ban re-instated.... actually Brown is worse due to his connection to GDSI as an advisor... Gee I wonder who Holder talked with in the industry... I bet it was GDSI and the meeting was arranged by Scott Brown.
That wouldn’t that be rich if we could connect those dots.
GOPe candidate Brown, hooks Eric Holder up with Gun bracelet company, shoots NH Senatorial Campaign in foot. John Sununu and Karl Rove on flight to patch self-inflicted wounds. More RINO friendly news at 11pm. Back to you Jim on the lastest tweet from DWTS....
Double bracelets behind the back for Holder. Putz.
FOr a guy whose ancestors may have had bracelets around their wrists, ankles and necks to make such a stupid suggestion is another indication of how dangerous this man is.
Under his idiocy, if someone who did have a bracelet that controlled his weapon, and he was taken out, no one else could use his gun to protect him or themselves.
And this ahole went to Harvard Law School. Probably under an Affirmative Action Declaration of Insanity scholarship.
#31> Love that old picture of Fungus Head.
I’m pretty sure the bad guys would find a way to jam the signal from the bracelet to the weapon. The “good” guys could also jam the weapon during no knock raids.
Maybe he should have to kiss every gun owner`s @$$?
We`ve already heard from CT on gun registration laws and now there`s serious talk about the same in NY. As I told a lefty on another site: “We`ve made our move, YOUR TURN!”
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