[Cajulian]

Check the Canadian and UK polls on the topic of governments ability to confiscate guns and you will see that majority of citizens wish they had never given up their rights of gun ownership.

Have you seen Canadian stories like the one where a young student drew a gun at school and the next thing that happens is the government raids the parents home with a swat team only to find that the homeowner/parent did not own any firearms.

Is that the type of government you want in the U.S.? We are already having inappropriate swat team raids now in the U.S. Even when there are appropriate investigations that warrant home raids, often our government organizations make mistakes, raiding the wrong home and destroy innocent people's property and traumatizing innocent people.

Anyone that is informed, knows that every state in the U.S. has studied and proven many times over, that violent gun crimes have come down substantially with legally armed citizens. If you don't believe this, then you live in an ideological bubble.

Would your wish be, for all cities to be like Chicago, with the most gun control in the nation on law abiding citizens along with their perennial leading gun crimes in the country by criminals.

I 100% agree with Carl. He at least is very well informed and balances the pros and cons of citizens owned firearms. He speaks from experience. For myself, coming from an International based set of experiences in some pretty extreme technologies, and with the largest american company we have, I fully agree that with these Smart Gun technologies, there are many pitfalls in their reliable use.

I don't think anyone disagrees with the ideological intent to provide as much safety as possible with the use of firearms. The problem is that, they are not ready for implementation and reliable use. Like many laws passed in this country, politicians propose and legislate laws that do nothing to solve the problem other than to make a political statement.