As we all know the current gun denizen is Codiac, but every now and then there is a story so remarkable that I have to post it.
For instance: the Texas lawmaker who voted against the castle doctrine; he shot and killed someone in the circumstances that the castle doctrine was there to protect; the rights of the individual who is protecting themselves.
Here is a link to the story.
Barry Fox over at the NewScientist Blogs writes,
The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle of Germany, is to password-protect the ammunition itself.
Meyerle is patenting a design for a modified cartridge that would be fired by a burst of high-frequency radio energy. But the energy would only ignite the charge if a solid-state switch within the cartridge had been activated. This would only happen if a password entered into the gun using a tiny keypad matched one stored in the cartridge.
When they are sold, cartridges could be programmed with a password that matches the purchaser’s gun. An owner could set the gun to request the password when it is reloaded, or to perform a biometric check before firing. The gun could also automatically lock itself after a pre-set period of time has passed since the password was entered.
The system would undoubtedly cost more than a conventional gun, but many firearm enthusiasts would surely pay a premium for such added security.
Plenty of good comments posted,
This is a terrible idea. It will hinder those who may need the weapon for self defense long enough to become dead, and will do absolutely NOTHING to stop an accidental death or misuse by a thieving criminal.
Want safer guns? Kill the criminals.
A clerk at a hotel brought an abrupt end to an armed robbery. Check out this link for the video: http://tinymce.moxiecode.cp/mce_temp_url
And this link for THR commentary: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=187561
And this link for the clerk’s point of view in his own words: http://www.jobrelatedstuff.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=443057
Some feel that he was too close to the child while shooting. I say the woman holding the child should’nt have been at the register to begin with if there was a gun pointing in her vicinity and definitely should’ve hugged some floor once the first shots were fired.
All in all, I say good on the clerk (who happens to be an NRA instructor).
This video is proof that guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
