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It's True. You Can Tell A Lot About People

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It's True. You Can Tell A Lot About People
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RE: It's True. You Can Tell A Lot About People
August 26, 2016 at 12:18 pm (This post was last modified: August 26, 2016 at 12:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 26, 2016 at 12:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Would a smart gun stop a kid from picking up daddy's gun and killing himself or others?  Yes.
No.  Daddy's gun is modified, and daddy bought it with an eye to use it with his son, if he didn't just buy one for his son as well. Think about that for a minute, a truly unmodifiable smart gun that could only -have- a single user.. would just be an impetus for daddy to buy two, rather than one.......an impetus to proliferation. Gratz.

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And Motherjones at least cites its sources.

Oh I know, lest they be accused of making mountains of molehills or something.......

(would you like sources on custom end user gun mods.....legal and illegal, or the relationship between modifications and guns that "just go off" whn dropped...perhaps a youtube tutorial for effecting that miserable scenario that a kindergartner could follow -cuz it's made for ignorant necks and all, lol-......what? There's a reason that gun manufacturers aren;t held accountable for this business...it's because they aren't, and because that is trivially easy for their lawyers to demonstrate.)
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RE: It's True. You Can Tell A Lot About People
August 26, 2016 at 12:30 pm
Quote:Think about that for a minute, a truly unmodifiable smart gun that could only -have- a single user.. would just be an impetus for daddy to buy two, rather than one.

Then daddy is a fucking idiot and deserves to have a dead kid.
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RE: It's True. You Can Tell A Lot About People
August 26, 2016 at 12:31 pm (This post was last modified: August 26, 2016 at 12:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That may be true, but it puts the manufacturers entirely off the hook, doesn;t it.  They aren;t empowered to investigate daddy themselves, and could not do so in context even if they wanted to.

That's -our- failure. -Our- unwilligness to enforce our laws, which are on the books, even when the corpse of a kid is right in front of us. Or, I suppose, we could transfer our guilt to an ideologically convenient scapegoat, like we do....and then wonder why he gives all his money to "the other guys"....as though it were an open question or was somehow more explicable by reference to his villainy rather than our apathy and obstructionism.
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