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Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns'
Daniel_Stuckey writes "The technology is here. So-called 'smart guns' are being programmed to recognize a gun owner's identity and lock up if the weapon ends up in the wrong hands. Entrepreneurs and engineers have been developing technology to make safer guns since the early '90s, and by now we've got working prototypes of guns that read fingerprints, hand grips or even sensors embedded under the skin. But after 15 years of innovation, personalized guns still haven't penetrated the marketplace."
I also forgot to add, the old canard about the gun being taken away from you in an encounter with a criminal and being used against you is so astronomically rare that statistics have never been been able to be documented about it. That is not a concern.
I live in Arizona and spend a lot of time in Louisiana. I carry my pistol almost always, sometimes concealed and sometimes openly. I often go into Phoenix SkyHarbor Airport openly carrying my pistol and have asked police officers for directions while doing so - no one batted an eye. I've done this recently and I've done it often. It is not illegal to carry a loaded firearm in the non-secure areas of airports in many states.
As to your question, "WHY?" I almost always carry and I'm not going to disarm because I'm going into an airport to greet someone arriving. The more natural question to me is, "Why not?" If I go every where else like this and it's legal why would I treat the airport any differently. I don't understand your conclusion that a "sidearm at best is NO help at all and at worst could cause a huge problem." I'd prefer to rely on my close to 300 hours of defensive pistol training over the P.O.S.T. standards of 24 hours for many police departments.
Regarding the adult conversation about what to do about the crazy people, I agree - why aren't we talking about the "crazy people" problem?