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Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu)
Lucas123 writes: A new survey from Johns Hopkins revealed that 59% percent of Americans, if they were to buy a new handgun, are willing to purchase a smart gun. More surprisingly, the web-based survey of almost 4,000 people found that four in 10 gun owners and 56% of political conservatives would buy a smart gun. "The results of this study show that there is potentially a large commercial market for smart gun technology," said Julia Wolfson. "This has been one of the biggest arguments against smart guns, that people just don't want them. This research shows otherwise."
I suspect I can count using the remaining fingers on my good hand the number of times a civilian has 'needed' to use a gun in the last year.
If you are ok storing a gun like that near your own kid, you are a negligent parent.
Even the NRA disagrees with you.
That's pretty much my whole issue. My parents made gun safety clear to me since I can remember. This is the only correct childproof technology:
1. Stop!
2. Don't touch.
3. Leave the area.
4. Find an adult.
If I'm being chased down by a man screaming "Merry Christmas you fag!" at me, I don't want to take a chance when I draw that the damned thing won't fire if he's so enraged by whatever homosexuals have done to him that he doesn't realize I'm pointing a decent caliber revolver at him and back down. (Don't worry, Christmas Jihadists! I will aim for a non-lethal shot!)
Same goes for a lesbian who's become enraged that her precious Michigan Womyn's Music Festival lost too many performers and has decided it's time to send somebody to the hospital over it. Yes, I'm that tiny of a person. (And yes, enraged lesbians who are larger than me can be quite frightening. All though, knowing that the MWMF is no more might just explain that enraged lesbian a few months ago. She was quit close to becoming violent. Fortunately her target is much more capable of defending herself without a gun than I am, which is probably the only reason it didn't come to blows. I wish I were making this shit up. Oh, new term: lesbophobe. Proud to be one, TYVM!)
The social justice wars are coming unglued and spilling over into real life. If you're not being a credible threat to my life or the life of somebody I care about, you have nothing to worry about.
I'm not too worried about prevy old men who think the correct response to discovering that I'm not cisfemale is to call the cops. The cops around here are pretty reasonable, and I know which businesses I'm not welcome at. Well, I am somewhat concerned that one day I might literally give some pervy old man a heart attack, but I will return the favor of religiously objecting to being a first responder!