From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
>I will state however, that IMO, the gun manufacturers are being
>irresponsible in this day and age of technology, selling products
>that are not engineered so that only the owner can turn them on.
>If you can protect a computer from misuse, you should be able to
>engineer weapons so that they cannot accidentally (or
>intentionally in the wrong hands) harm people. If you accept this
>premise, the efforts by the gun manufacturers (or members of
>Congress) to try and enact laws that can keep people from suing
>the gun manufacturers are highly misguided. [I might be willing
>to grandfather certain very old weapons, but modern day products
>should be engineered to be safe.]
I routinely try any such devices that come out.They are little more
than gimicks and none works even remotely successfully.
The technology counter to urban myth, does not exist.
I will trade most of my personnal defense guns for a phaser when
they exist, not before.
Brian
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