Obama calls for smart guns

The Defense Department will continue to help manufacturers test smart firearms under real-world conditions at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center in Maryland. Gun makers could also be eligible to win cash prizes through the program. The federal government will also continue to help state and local governments as smart-gun technology develops, the report said.
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this information on testing is so vague that it makes the hudson river look crystal clear
 
Legion Troll said:
President Barack Obama announced new steps Friday to help curb gun violence, including by identifying the requirements that "smart guns" would have to meet for law enforcement agencies to buy and use them as well as sharing mental health records with the federal background check system.

Smart guns use various technologies to prevent an accidental shooting or help track down a missing gun.

"These common-sense steps are not going to prevent every tragedy, but what if they prevented even one?" Obama wrote in a Facebook post. "We should be doing everything we can to save lives and spare families the pain and unimaginable loss too many Americans have endured."

As Obama unveiled a plan last January to expand federal background checks for gun purchases, he directed the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Justice to conduct or sponsor research into smart-gun technology. Obama also instructed the agencies to regularly review the availability of such technology and to promote its use.

In a report released Friday, the Justice and Homeland Security departments said they expect to complete the work of identifying the smart-gun requirements by October.

The Defense Department will continue to help manufacturers test smart firearms under real-world conditions at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center in Maryland. Gun makers could also be eligible to win cash prizes through the program. The federal government will also continue to help state and local governments as smart-gun technology develops, the report said.

"Many gun injuries and deaths are the result of legal guns that were stolen, misused, or discharged accidentally," Obama said. "As long as we've got the technology to prevent a criminal from stealing and using your smartphone, then we should be able to prevent the wrong person from pulling a trigger on a gun."

The president also called for more attention to be paid to the mentally ill. The Social Security Administration will publish a proposed rule to help ensure that mental health records about people who are prohibited from buying a gun are reported to the background check system. The public will have 60 days to comment after the proposed rule is published in the Federal Register.

Obama also said the White House will hold a conference in May on preventing gun violence.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/obama-announces-new-steps-to-reduce-gun-violence/article_89c03a63-69b1-5a75-8a70-d8a2af6334db.html
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I think this is a great idea. If a gun is stolen there's a way to trace it. And nobody can whine that "Obama's taking our guns."
 
Not all of those suicides are by gun, but a majority are. And while some people feeling suicidal impulses will choose another method if a gun is not at hand, public health researchers cite two reasons guns are particularly dangerous: 1) Guns are more lethal than most other methods people try, so someone who attempts suicide another way is more likely to survive; 2) Studies suggest that suicide attempts often occur shortly after people decide to kill themselves, so people with deadly means at hand when the impulse strikes are more likely to use them than those who have to wait or plan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/upshot/gun-deaths-are-mostly-suicides.html?_r=0
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Given that information- and assuming that everybody reading this would want to prevent suicides- how could ' smart guns ' assist in the prevention of suicide by means of firearms ?
 
moon2012 said:
Given that information- and assuming that everybody reading this would want to prevent suicides- how could ' smart guns ' assist in the prevention of suicide by means of firearms ?
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Assuming that most conservatives own guns, why would you assume that?
 
christiefan915 said:
I think this is a great idea. If a gun is stolen there's a way to trace it. And nobody can whine that "Obama's taking our guns."
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Given that many crimes are committed with illegally-obtained firearms, I wonder why anyone would oppose this?

Since SmarterthanFew was an air traffic controller, surely he can't be unaware that smart technology is used worldwide every day.

Why pretend that applying it to guns is so risky that 10 years of testing (that he must personally approve of) is necessary?

Is he worried about background checks for some reason?
 
Legion Troll said:
Given that many crimes are committed with illegally-obtained firearms, I wonder why anyone would oppose this?

Since SmarterthanFew was an air traffic controller, surely he can't be unaware that smart technology is used worldwide every day.

Why pretend that applying it to guns is so risky that 10 years of testing (that he must personally approve of) is necessary?

Is he worried about background checks for some reason?
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Maybe it's just that guns are fetishized for some people and he's one of them.
 
Rune said:
Of course it is a bad idea.
In the event ofa firefight during an armed home invasion,
if the gun owner is killed or disabled none of his/her family can use the gun.
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Yeah, that happens almost every day, so we should totally disregard the fact that technology exists to allow multiple authorized users to access items in the home all the time.

Prat.
 
Rune said:
I don't know which is why I asked.
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Rune said:
Of course it is a bad idea.
In the event ofa firefight during an armed home invasion,
if the gun owner is killed or disabled none of his/her family can use the gun.
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