This weekend I got outdoors in the cold rain and shot tin cans with my young grandson (<10). Believe it or not, We all had fun and safety was always in the back of our minds. No one got shot and everybody learned a few important gun safety lessons as well as a few lessons concerning how to use the gun.
I say that as I see that this thread has drifted from it original question to arguments that are really meaningless over something that will never happen at least in my lifetime or what I got left of it..
That is gun control here in the USA where it allows the ordinary citizen unrestricted use of a firearm while having enough restrictions that protect others from being victims to those firearms both from accidents and the bad guys.
It was mentioned that bracelets, smart guns with chips that would only allow the REGISTERED handler to fire the gun could be a way to do this. Yes, but what about all those guns that are not registered. I have my dads 12 GA. unregistered single shot Long-Tom Shotgun. Am I going to fix this gun up with a chip that will in-effect make it a smart gun thereby allowing only me to fire it? NO!
Thus, my question is: How do you apply this principle to all the other guns in the US (both bad guy guns and law abiding citizens (other) guns). What about the world that probably has a 10 billion or more guns? (Extrapolated figure)
Well in my opinion it is like having a big pile of Cow poop, and you are are trying to get rid all the flies blowing the poop one or two at a time with the intent of finally getting relocating all the flies allowing the poop to disintegrate in piece. ( a little humor here but a very serious thought). Gun Control unless you target the whole world is ridiculous and 'pie in the sky' and it will have to be more than one or two at a time.
No, I am not saying that one person's life is Not worth trying to make them safe from accidents but when you place the amount of restrictions on guns and their owners that would in effect prevent these accidents in any appreciable amount (not one death), you will be rendering them almost if not useless. Therefore, like the UK, we citizens in USA will become impotent as far as protecting ourselves, our property and our loved ones.
How would you propose protecting all the people with no method of protecting themselves. Well, it seems that France has called up part of its military to protect them. Tens of thousands of law officers and military are restricting people rights (at least some of them) for safety. Your talking about Sheep here,,, (well when my dogs perceive a threat, they herd the sheep into one small area and will not let them do anything (eat, etc)until the threat is gone.) Is this what we want? You might say no, but if you would like to see what a scenario might look like with the military in a large city like NYC, then watch the movie "The Siege".
It is estimated that there are 90 guns for every 100 citizens in the US. This was based on REGISTERED guns. That figure I am sure includes the bad guys guns as well. That is 300,000,000 guns or more in the US alone. . Now again, pray tell me, how does these bracelets, smart guns chips, etc. going to deal with all these guns and keep the citizens rights intact while making a difference in the crimes that are committed with gun in hand.
People,,,,It is a poopy situation. LOL
Blade
