Posted on 06/20/2019 12:13:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
During a fundraiser on Monday evening, former Vice President Joe Biden reference James Bond and the use of "smart guns" as a means of achieving gun control in the United States.
“If I get elected president of the United States of America with your help, if that happens, guns, we have the capacity now in a James Bond-style to make sure no one can pull a trigger unless their DNA and fingerprint is on it," Biden said, according to the Washington Examiner. "We have that capacity to do it now. You know it."
"But what happens? The gun manufacturers, when two folks started to sell some of those guns to two dealerships, they said, 'We’re going to shut you down.' My god, we don’t have to worry about the 2nd Amendment," Biden explained. "Imagine all the people who would be alive today if the only person who could buy a gun is qualified because of background checks and they’re the only ones that can pull the trigger? So my point is there are so many things we have the capacity to do.”
It's hard to take a presidential candidate seriously when they're talking about implementing gun control policies simply because a fictional character has that kind of technology. While it's great for fictional characters and movies, smart guns are absolutely not the answer to achieving "common sense" gun laws in America.
Smart guns require a person's fingerprint to be programed into the firearm in order for the trigger to be pulled and the gun to fire. That sounds great on paper but there are practicality issues.
1) When a person is most likely to need a gun their body is going through fight or flight. "Do I stay and attempt to take down my attacker or do I run?" That's the question gun owners often ask themselves. If they decide to fight, their adrenaline is pumping and their palms are likely sweaty. If he or she needs to pull the trigger – which no lawful gun owner ever wants to do – sweaty palms make it almost impossible for a firearm to read biometrics. Then what? The gun becomes useless when it's needed the most.
2) If a family member dies and they have a smart gun left behind, then what? It's again, useless, because the person whose DNA is programed into the firearm is no longer living. You now have a useless piece of metal. You can't sell it. You can't use it. Do you turn it over the FBI or your local Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL)? Do you leave it sitting in a gun safe?
3) Someone is interested in becoming a gun owner but they're not sure what they want to purchase. The most common way of determining the best fit is by shooting other people's guns or renting them at the gun range. That can't happen, again, if a smart gun requires DNA programming. Lawful gun owners can't take friends and family members to the gun range to try out various firearms, which can be detrimental to the shooting sports.
4) DNA. How many people will have access to your biometrics? Our fingerprints are our greatest personal identifier. No two people have the same fingerprint pattern. If a company gets their hands on your fingerprints, there's so much liability. Just look at what has happened with DNA testing kits from 23 and Me. All it takes it someone with ill intent getting their hands on your fingerprints from something awful to happen.
5) What will happen to every other firearm in the nation? Will the government suddenly come knocking on our doors and confiscating "unsmart" guns? This opens up a massive can of worms.
Next time you look to a movie for inspiration, Joe, you might want to think things through a little bit more.
Well no wonder. He has after all a pea sized brain.
And look for Trump to waltz back in.
“He has after all a pea sized brain.”
I don’t see how that much stupidity can be crammed into a brain that’s only pea-sized. Extra dimensions of stupidity?
Well to be smart and intelligent wouldn’t he need a bigger brain? See what I am going after?
What A Moron: Joe Biden.
Far, far worse. This idiot is a clear and present danger to America !
He sure is, and may God help this country if he is elected.
Maybe his head is full of water, instead of a normal sized brain. It would definitely hold a lot of stupidity
There is something worse than being stupid. It’s not being aware you’re stupid. Biden is in this second category.
Now that’s a point. Perhaps the stupidity is water-soluble, and Joe’s pea-sized brain is immersed in it and completely saturated. I think you’ve got it.
As soon as Joe can prove every member of his security team is armed with a “smart gun” and only with a “smart gun,” he’ll have a tiny bit of credibility to talk about the issue. Until then, he’s just another far-left loonie elitist who wants you to live by rules he won’t live by.
Those 5 points aren’t ‘flaws’ they’re (D)\Leftist (I repeat myself) FEATURES.
Insufferable horse’s ass.
Just the sort of Ignorant Tool the democrats love.
Don’t underestimate the Evil Clown and the power of the News and Entertainment Complex (far more insidious than the Military / Industrial Complex).
He’s using the expectations set by entertainment to advance his agenda. It is American voters who are living in a fantasy land created by the News and Entertainment Complex. These days, it is hard for them to tell the difference between real news and entertainment. “Infotainment” and “Based on a True Story” have almost erased the line dividing them.
And, because of the incestuous relationship between Democrats and the news and entertainment complex, he will get away with it.
No one is going to jail.
No one will be arrested or even indicted.
Unless, of course, they’re a ‘Pubbie.
Judge Joe Dredd strikes again
Stallone in Judge Dredd?
“...now in a James Bond-style to make sure no one can pull a trigger unless their DNA and fingerprint is on it,” Biden said...”
1) Violates 2nd Amendment rights.
2) Technologically impractical.
3) Smugglers would make a fortune; then we could have a $ trillion per year “War on Guns” as effective as the War on Drugs, Prohibition, and border control.
4) “James Bond-style”. Has Biden ever seen a Bond film?
5) Democrats need to ponder this: After Joe cures cancer as promised, and stops all shootings, won’t the Earth tip over due to the excess people?
I have to assume some of Joe’s plugs were installed upside down, causing ingrown hair to fill his brain cavity.
Nice but anybody who thinks Biden is onto something will not read this. We should just ridicule Creepy Joe as “Joe, Creepy Joe”.
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