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New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law
rmohr02 writes "New Jersey has just enacted legislation that would require all handguns to be able to recognize their owners and only fire when their owners grip them. Gun manufacturers will be required to implement this within three years of the NJ Attorney General's approval of an acceptable, commercially available model. One critic says 'No technology is foolproof--anyone who has a computer knows how many times it crashes.' I'm sure fellow /.ers will have something to say about that. Also on Google News"
Go be a farmer. We need good food, we don't need more guns.
Actually, we need less food. Farming subsidies are artifically depressing the price of staple crops, and depriving farmers in low-income areas such as Africa from being able to make a living. The end result is them needing economic aid, when in reality, they could be producing enough food to feed not only themselves, but neighboring reigons as well. This is aside from the problems created by civil war and diamond/oil cartels in certain regions...
Not to mention, being a farmer even with subsidies is a hard existence. The costs of buying and maintaining equipment, buying seed, irrigation, and farm labor can drive you into bankruptcy within a few growing seasons if you get a run of bad weather. There's a reason that there are far fewer family farmers here in the states now than there were 20 years ago.
So, what you're saying is that I should just be quiet, and pay extraordinarily high taxes to support everyone else??? Screw Socialism.