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Originally Posted by Guest
We already have laws in place that are supposed to prevent mentally unstable people from getting guns. The problem remains that mentally unstable people get guns through illegal means.
Safe gun technology presents a danger to gun owners.
If you are you familiar with fingerprint technology on cell phones you know how frustrating it can be when the device doesn't read your fingerprint correctly.
In a situation where a person is forced to use a gun to defend himself, they do not have the luxury of moving his finger around the trigger until it unlocks the gun. When a gun is used in self-defense it is usually used within 3 seconds of a threat being presented.
Maybe this might be something to look at in the future if the technology can be perfected and additional fingerprints can be added to make the gun work. I'd like my wife to be able to shoot my gun. But right now, the technology is too new and imperfect.
And like all technology, this would certainly be able to be overridden. Someone steals a gun they are going to be able to pick the lock so to speak.
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These are certainly problems with SOME technologies that have been introduced, but there are others that do not depend upon just fingerprint technologies.
Again, this is a process, and without good ideas and methods to overcome problems, the problem of gun violence still exists.
It is not only MASS gun violence, but also unauthorized gun usage such as children obtaining and firing firearms that have injured and killed other children as well as others.
This country needs to address this problem, just as it has addressed car safety and other things of mass consumption: food and drugs to mention just a few.
There are many ways of doing things, but when there are differing statutes, in differing areas, there are always going to be "cracks" in the legal system that allows the criminal element to obtain firearms without much trouble.
There will always be a criminal element, but that should not put the brakes upon an effort to do things that will prevent more unnecessary deaths.