“This interested Eric Holder,” Gentry says. “He wondered how we might be able to control who was or wasn’t authorized. I stopped him right there. I looked right across a table at Eric Holder — yeah, the attorney general of the United States — and told him, ‘If you try to mandate my smart-gun technology, I’ll burn it down.’ The Intelligun is designed to save lives, not restrict freedom.” [More]Yeah, except then he turns around and says "“Government be damned, we need this potentially life-saving technology.”
Minter's premise that this holds promise if only we can get the government and the antis to back off is perplexing, because he clearly groks the dangers. If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.
Until that piece of the equation gets figured out, and it'll take more than simplistic platitudes about "need[ing] truth to undo the spin," the only proper response from any gun owner who gives a damn about freedom is to boycott the hell out of any Quisling who proceeds to market. And the fault for that lies totally with the monopoly of violence cultists.
NRO. Figures.
[Via Michael G]
Some serious FAIL here:
ReplyDelete"[A] parent would have another safety mechanism to help prevent a child from firing a self-defense gun." Why would I want to limit a responsible child's self-defense options, i.e. from pitchforks?
And here:
"If the battery goes dead on a civilian model, the gun locks, but on models being marketed to police departments, a dead battery unlocks the pistol completely."
A) Why do government "Only Ones" deserve the benefit of the doubt, while "civilians" (read: non-"Only Ones") don't?
B) What's to stop "Only Ones" from simply removing the battery or letting it die, and not dealing with the tech? Will this open up law enforcement agencies and/or individual officers to liability/negligence lawsuits if their gun "falls into the wrong hands" and "goes off" due to a missing/dead battery?
Plus, doesn't removing the battery and rendering the tech useless expressly negate the "cops shot with their own guns" reasoning behind the tech in the first place?