Posted on 12/10/2004 10:07:54 AM PST by neverdem
Bump for later
BANG!
Do we really want guns that are smarter than some of the users?
Even if it works as promised, it will not placate the gun grabbers. It's the acquisition of the power to negate a constitutional right that drives them-safety and lives are irrelevant. It's the same as with the abortion supporters-it all boils down to power.
How do gloves effect this?
How will this technology prevent suicide from your own gun?
Yes, and criminals have never developed techniques to circumvent technology before, have they?
I propose that the police be forced to use these "smart guns" for 7 years to test their efficacy before forcing the general populace to submit to this new technology.
After all, if "smart guns" are everything the Liberals claim they are, then the government shouldn't have any problem putting its money where its mouth is, right? RIGHT?
No kidding. I wonder whether every police car in NJ (and maybe nationwide, later) will have a radio transmitter that will deactivate all of the "smart guns?" No, strike that, I don't wonder - I'm certain that they will.
Thankfully, there are over 250 million guns in this country, with roughly 5-6 million new ones being produced or imported annually - those bastiches will have to wait a LOOOONNNNNGGGG time before any significant percentage of those guns become inoperable due to corrosion or the wearing out of parts. Oh, and the fact that there is now shall-issue on the books in 34 states says to me that there will be LOTS more "dumb" handguns sold before this type of a law could ever reach those states (and in many of them they wouldn't even be introduced, let alone passed).
Phuck the PRNJ. I am VERY glad to be out of there and living in Texas, Free America.
Just wait for the first lawsuit where an authorized user can't fire his/her gun, and is either injured or murdered because of that. That's one products liability suit against a gun-maker that I would support wholeheartedly.
So, are all the handguns going to provided with a laptop computer?
Or a tense situation, such as when someone breaks into your house at 2 am?
The day the President's secret service detail is exclusively armed with these guns will be the day that I consider adding one to my curio collection.
But for serious carry, it is a Colt 1911 with the grip safety pinned.
I can guaranteee you that the government is looking at ways to disable these "smart guns" from a distance. They will probably have GPS tracking in them like the new cell phones do.
Violent videogames are not the only things about which to be leery. The SSRI class of antidepressants just received a black box warning mandate by the FDA for the possibility of suicide, mainly for the time period after initiating treatment or increase in dose.
ANYTHING ELSE IS BS.
My idea of a smart gun is one that is guaranteed to hit the target.
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