Smart guns

[tactikel]

You can bet that any smart technology will have a back door for the government to shut off your firearm any time they please.

 

[TennJed]

let he who has never let his cell phone battery die cast the first smart stone

 

[Fast Frank]

I think we have let the anti types do it again.

As usual, they are the ones to put the name on these guns, and as usual they got it wrong.

Truth:

The reliable, simple, accurate, and powerful guns that we have in our possession now are the "Smart Guns".

The ridiculous electronic nonsense they are trying to pawn off on us are the "Stupid Guns".

We need to refuse to use their terms here in all cases.

 

[splattergun]

A smart gun is one without all those stupid lawyer warnings on it and superfluous safeties.

 

[Guy B. Meredith]

I have it on good authority that the smart guns will take 1oMB photos, limit your shots to bulls-eye targets, connect with your home to turn off the heater and lock the doors.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

You know, in the rebooted Battlestar Galactica series wasn't the downfall of human civilization due to all the smart technology built into their computer controlled weapons systems?

 

[JRWhit]

I absolutely agree with Ridgerunner665.

Like I posted elsewhere, imagine a child--little Dottie--playing with her mother's jewelry which just happens to include the ring, bracelet, watch, etc. necessary to enable the "smart" gun mommy has left laying on the jewelry table.

Or maybe the gun left laying out because the doodad is going to disable it is stolen by an older child or criminal and the mechanism defeated and bypassed.

This technology is totally bogus in preventing use by criminals or anyone else who would steal it.

Great point to be made from this.^^^^
In truth no matter how elaborate the mechanism, it all falls back to personally responsibility.