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RAZD Member (Idle past 1432 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined:
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
I suppose we can fix this with a small change to the 'stand and defend your block' laws in Texas.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams
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ramoss Member (Idle past 639 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Page not found | USUNCUT - US News | Breaking News | Latest News Today
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Militia Movement Leader Fatally Shoots Fellow Patriot Between the Eyes in Drunken Dispute Vincent Smith, a right-wing organizer for the Paul Revere 2016 Final March to Restore America, fatally shot his co-founder Charles Carter in what appears to be self-defense during a drunken argument. The two men were organizing the march from the west coast to Washington D.C. with the intent of removing the corrupt leadership that has taken over our beloved country and ousted her God and constitution.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1432 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Page not found | USUNCUT - US News | Breaking News | Latest News Today
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GDR Member Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.1 |
If everyone has a gun we'll all be safer. Hmmmm... maybe not
Man shot, killed while stopping to help driver stranded in snowstorm: Sheriff | CTV News He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1432 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Man shot in Dorchester over parking dispute - The Boston Globe
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
In an isolated incident, an eight-year-old boy shot his seven-year-old brother to death when their Responsible Gun Owner Parents left them in the car with a loaded gun.
In another isolated incident, an intoxicated Responsible Gun Owner opened fire because he was stuck in traffic ... behind a snow plow In a blizzard. Damn fools should have let him pass, I guess.
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Percy Member Posts: 22494 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Continuum, Season 1, Episode 3 ("Wasting Time"). A criminal manages to take the gun from a cop from 2076. He fires the gun at the cop, but the gun detects the unauthorized user and instead stuns the criminal with an electrical shock. Neat! (The gun raised a big display reading "UNAUTHORIZED USER", but the criminal either ignored it or didn't see it.)
Adding electrical shock capability to a reasonably-sized handgun may be a bit advanced for current technology, but detection of unauthorized users is already possible and getting better. Any objections out there to guns that only fire for authorized users? --Percy
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Diomedes Member Posts: 996 From: Central Florida, USA Joined: |
A criminal manages to take the gun from a cop from 2076. He fires the gun at the cop, but the gun detects the unauthorized user and instead stuns the criminal with an electrical shock. That idea is actually borrowed from Judge Dredd comics. For those that don't know, Judge Dredd is a futuristic law enforcement officer in a dystopian future. In a similar fashion, his gun is coded genetically to only him and other 'judges'. i.e. other cops. If a criminal tries to use his gun against him, it won't fire and will incapacitate the criminal. Sometimes its electric shocks; sometimes the gun actually just detonates and kills the criminal. A little overboard, but hey, its the comics.
Any objections out there to guns that only fire for authorized users? Not from me. But the NRA is opposed to this type of technology as they feel it is a 'slippery slope' to having the government mandate that all guns behave this way.
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Hyroglyphx Inactive Member |
In more modern times, there have been some attempts to create a ring that the authorized user wears that corresponds with the firearm assigned to it. The gun cannot be fired unless it is in close proximity of the ring. But this is a flawed design. Presumably you could kill someone with their own weapon at point-blank range or simply take the ring. However, the basic concept behind it is pretty interesting so that, while the ring concept might be flawed, a better design might work based off that basic premise.
Could evolve from science fiction to science fact"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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Hyroglyphx Inactive Member |
Any objections out there to guns that only fire for authorized users? Only that more than one person can potentially be authorized to access it. Example: a husband may want to give his wife the ability to use it when he's at work if there's an intruder in their home. Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given."Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Any objections out there to guns that only fire for authorized users? Apparently some 'gun enthusiasts find such technology extremely objectionable. What is a 'smart gun' and why don't we have one? - nj.com
quote: The NRA called these death threats a 'market response'. Apparently some gun nuts are afraid that the use of these weapons will become mandated if the technology works. Also there was a poster in these forums who was afraid that the government could disarm such guns remotely. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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Adding electrical shock capability to a reasonably-sized handgun may be a bit advanced for current technology, but detection of unauthorized users is already possible and getting better. Any objections out there to guns that only fire for authorized users? Yes, I mentioned this a few months back, but apparently gun nuts object to anything that might reduce gun deaths, whether it involves legislation, gun design, or just the application of basic common sense. Perhaps they'd be willing to consider a gun that can only be fired by drunks and toddlers. Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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vimesey Member (Idle past 99 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined: |
Sadly, the sheer, blinding common sense of well designed guns like these, clashes with the ridiculous fantasy claptrap the gun lobby peddles of the Gubmint coming to enforce something or other through military action.
Hard statistics work against the gun lobby on their other justifications for gun ownership, but this fantasy has the advantage of being a pipe dream they can sell to their gun loving supporters, without having to fight the statistics (other than the one that recites that it's never happened - but that's easier to dismiss). As a result, they can't approve of anything which threatens that fantasy - and the idea that the Gubmint could turn off guns remotely is an answer to the prayers of those who seek to stoke paranoia. I hope I'm proved wrong though.Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 2724 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
Hi, Hyroglyphx.
Hyroglyphx writes: The gun cannot be fired unless it is in close proximity of the ring. But this is a flawed design. Presumably you could kill someone with their own weapon at point-blank range or simply take the ring. It's amazing to me that negative reactions can be invoked by obscure hypothetical scenarios like this, but not by actual, harrowing statistics like "4277 gun-related incidents so far in 2016 (excluding police-involved incidents)."-Blue Jay, Ph.D.* *Yeah, it's real Darwin loves you.
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