Smart Guns or Smart Politicians

[SharpDog]

I suppose this is the 'middle of the road' position ...

And the entire article ignores the whole DNA-matching part of the statement:

Joe Biden: Build ‘James Bond-Style’ Guns That Don’t Fire Without DNA Match:

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. 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. 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.

Four things Biden left out: 1. The “smart gun” in this case was radio-activated by a watch that was paired with the gun. This means anyone who stole the gun and the bracelet could shoot the firearm with no problem. 2. The gun was only made in .22 LR and costs $1,800. 3. The “smart gun” in this case was defeated by a man armed with $15 worth of magnets. 4. Considering all these failures, consumers feared a law in New Jersey would trigger a requirement that dealers could only sell “smart guns,” thereby forcing consumers to purchase an $1,800, radio-activated .22 LR pistol that had been defeated by a guy with a pocket full of magnets.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...-style-guns-that-dont-fire-without-dna-match/

I couldn't find any statements by other candidcates on smart guns but I wouldn't be surprised if some were forthcoming

 

[Pat Riot]

My response to him would be “Show us the DNA / Fingerprint system that you developed for your double barrel.”

 

[badkarmamib]

Someone should point out that in one scene, Daniel Craig was wearing gloves, and the gun still fired...

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Someone should point out that in one scene, Daniel Craig was wearing gloves, and the gun still fired...

Some one should point out that we don't live in a movie and,should the need arise, if I pick up a gun to defend myself it might be the wife's gun.

 

[AlexanderA]

Uncle Joe is vulnerable to being "fact checked" on a lot of things (not just guns). This is what happens when you try to "triangulate" issues that you know very little about.

 

[paulsj]

Well, it's ok that Joe is not a thinker, but he smiles a lot that exactly what the ones that will be "pulling strings" want.

 

[Tommygunn]

How does he plan to have a gun "read" the owner's D. N. A.???? Install a tricorder in the grip?

It takes time and lab tests to match dna. It can take hours to establish a familial link and weeks if it has to be an exact person I. D.
Biden has been watching too many hollywierd C. S. I. nonsense.

 

[AlexanderA]

The kind of "smart guns" that Biden is talking about are technically impossible, or impractical. To the extent he's going down this blind alley, he's keeping his mind off other, more pernicious, things.

He's acting as if he already has the nomination locked up, and he's in general election mode. He may get a few surprises between now and then.

 

[MedWheeler]

It seems that "smart" guns, as far off as they may seem, will still precede smart politicians..

 

[Labguy47]

He thinks we should all have radio chips like dogs which talk to the gun

 

[Pat Riot]

Don’t give them any ideas.

 

[DoubleMag]

''Joe Biden told an audience...''
Who exactly was the audience? He has been drawing record low #s of...oh wait, here!

 

[HPCadm17]

Guns are both smarter and safer than politicians. They don't "go off" all by themselves.

 

[texgunner]

"Smart politician" is an oxymoron.

 

[AlexanderA]

"Smart politician" is an oxymoron.

Like idiot-savants, successful politicians are good at one thing -- getting votes. They don't have to know anything about anything else. It's a mistake to hold them accountable in any technical area, such as guns. They simply don't live in that universe. (They have staff to supply the details on technical matters.)

The reason they get votes is that the public is as ignorant as they are.

 

[Jack B.]

It's not what we know, it's what they can make people believe who don't know.

 

[DerMerchant]

Here we go again with hollywood "facts". I swear that every anti gun politician literally get's all their information from action movies. And when I say literally, I mean it.

 

[JTHunter]

Well, it's ok that Joe is not a thinker, but he smiles a lot that exactly what the ones that will be "pulling strings" want.

The only thing "Slow Joe" is missing is the musical accompaniment by an "organ grinder".

 

[rskent]

I swear that every anti gun politician literally get's all their information from action movies. And when I say literally, I mean it.

I have come to the sad conclusion that most people get most of their “facts” from TV shows.