Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumit seems people
aren't willing to entrust their lives to computers, even though it has the potential to save thousand of lives. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141560388
yet when we say the same about so called smart guns we are dismissed as gun nuts, and other such nonsense.
MADem
(135,425 posts)A few pooh-pooh-ers don't make a consensus.
The purpose of the legislation in the link is so that auto manufacturers can do some real-life testing. The manufacturers are responsible for the performance and liability issues associated with their product.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)an issue. Then they are very tenacious in their advocacy.
But in all other debates about guns they are very anti-gun. No amount of advocacy for training classes or engineering will move them from their absolutist claims that all guns are bad all the time.
I think they envision a smart gun technology that will allow their keepers to remotely disable all guns at whim and they find such thoughts comforting.
beergood
(470 posts)that the comparison i wanted to make. this poster (7962) was worried about the tech being hacked
"9. Imagine the lawsuits if one is at fault in a wreck. Imagine one being hacked,
or several in the same area being hacked. And you KNOW damn well someone will do it
i see nothing but trouble"
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yet we made the same argument about smart guns, and we were labeled paranoid gun nuts.
ileus
(15,396 posts)They see each incremental step as one closer to a total ban. If you stand in the way of any idea no matter how dumb or ineffective you're a gun nut who values rights over lives. They can't even grasp that we value life above all things, that's why we fight.
beergood
(470 posts)as a marine in vietnam. we had a conversation in which he claimed god created peacekeepers and warriors. peacekeepers are the people that go out of their way to bring peace, love and happiness to the world even if it costs them their lives. the warriors job is to protect the peacekeeper.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,565 posts)A computer assisted firearm with an artificial intelligence capability exceeding that of the mandating legislators.