THE Gun Thread

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

A smart gun is one that uses biometrics to prevent anyone but the owner from firing the gun (sort of like the fingerprint login on your mobile phone).

It would reduce gun violence because if someone steals your gun, he couldn't use it to shoot someone.

Boru

I see.  And would it reduce violence in general?  Or just for those who own the "smart gun"

What a stupid question. Of course it wouldn’t reduce ‘violence in general’. It is intended to reduce a few specific kinds of violence - shootings committed with stolen guns, the seven year old finding daddy’s pistol and shooting her sibling in the face, that sort of thing. If every handgun in existence were replaced with a smart gun tomorrow, it would have zero effect on domestic violence, protests that turn violent, bar fights and so on.

You should get yourself tested - I think you may be afflicted with terminal stupidity.

Boru