You assume too much if you think that the policeman or soldier (or rebel or terrorist) is too human to shoot peaceful unarmed people. How many were killed by Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot? How many were killed in Rwanda? Feel free to take your chances, I'll keep my guns (like they are now without the "magic bullets")
The military won't use this solution or any of the other so called "smart" gun technologies. Right now guns are reliable, if you add in all the additional crap that is being proposed it will cost lives. The problem of the cop getting shot by his own gun can be in large part solved by having the cops use retention holstsers that make it very difficult to take the gun from his holster. Also, switching to a gun with an external safety (rather than relying on the internal safety on a Glock or other guns that are popular with cops) will decrease the problems since the bad guys are usually not proficient with a hand gun and if it takes more than just pulling a trigger they will probably not be able to shoot the cop before he can draw his backup gun and kill the bad guy.
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You assume too much if you think that the policeman or soldier (or rebel or terrorist) is too human to shoot peaceful unarmed people. How many were killed by Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot? How many were killed in Rwanda? Feel free to take your chances, I'll keep my guns (like they are now without the "magic bullets")
The military won't use this solution or any of the other so called "smart" gun technologies. Right now guns are reliable, if you add in all the additional crap that is being proposed it will cost lives. The problem of the cop getting shot by his own gun can be in large part solved by having the cops use retention holstsers that make it very difficult to take the gun from his holster. Also, switching to a gun with an external safety (rather than relying on the internal safety on a Glock or other guns that are popular with cops) will decrease the problems since the bad guys are usually not proficient with a hand gun and if it takes more than just pulling a trigger they will probably not be able to shoot the cop before he can draw his backup gun and kill the bad guy.