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This in today's Philadelphia Inquirer South Jersey Edition. If you like, please join us at www.njccw.com (kinda becoming www.njcsd.org ) where some people better and more commited than I are really getting it together. I like New Jersey a lot. Moving is an attractive alternative, but the attraction wears off as the rotten apple is still there ready to spoil the bunch. Not to sound high and holy, but New Jersey isn't just our problem. Now for the Letter to the Editor (not mine, by the way):
A Dumb Law
After the Torricelli-Lautenberg switch and now their "smart gun" law, what will New Jersey's Democrats do to embarrass their constituents? As author-philosopher Ayn Rand titled one of her articles, "Who will protect us from our protectors?"
As a successful electronics engineer, with nearly 40 years of experience at companies of all sizes, I would quit my job before I would ever accept an idiotic assignment such as inventing a so-called smart gun. And I do not belong to the National Rifle Association, nor do I own a gun.
If the purpose of the smart gun is to prevent accidental deaths and suicides, it can't do either for its owner, presupposing it ever comes into existence.
Human hands come in all sizes, shapes and colors. The force that one uses to hold a gun can vary over a wide range, depending on the owner and the circumstance. What about the lefthanded? What if the owner's hand is gloved, cut, bandaged, dirty, wet, sweaty or covered with soap, dishwater, paint, grease or lotion?
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A Dumb Law
After the Torricelli-Lautenberg switch and now their "smart gun" law, what will New Jersey's Democrats do to embarrass their constituents? As author-philosopher Ayn Rand titled one of her articles, "Who will protect us from our protectors?"
As a successful electronics engineer, with nearly 40 years of experience at companies of all sizes, I would quit my job before I would ever accept an idiotic assignment such as inventing a so-called smart gun. And I do not belong to the National Rifle Association, nor do I own a gun.
If the purpose of the smart gun is to prevent accidental deaths and suicides, it can't do either for its owner, presupposing it ever comes into existence.
Human hands come in all sizes, shapes and colors. The force that one uses to hold a gun can vary over a wide range, depending on the owner and the circumstance. What about the lefthanded? What if the owner's hand is gloved, cut, bandaged, dirty, wet, sweaty or covered with soap, dishwater, paint, grease or lotion?
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