Personally, I believe Republicans should respond by introducing a bill that would require any lawmaker introducing a bill have at least a working knowledge of what it is s/he is hoping to legislate. But then, that’s my idea of a Utopia — and admittedly, it lacks that whole forward feel. The Hill:
A House Democrat inspired by the last James Bond movie has offered legislation to produce handguns with “personalization technology.”
The idea is to produce guns that can only be used by the gun’s owners. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) cited the latest James Bond movie, “Skyfall,” as inspiration for the bill.
“In the most recent James Bond film, Bond escapes death when his handgun, which is equipped with technology that recognizes him as its owner, becomes inoperable when it gets into the wrong hands,” Tierney’s office said in a statement introducing the bill. “This technology, however, isn’t just for the movies — it’s a reality.”
As are shock therapy and frontal lobotomies. And yet Democrat lawmakers keep resisting my urgings to have themselves retrofitted with either of those before they’re allowed to propose banning something. Like, in this instance, transferability, commerce, sharing, test driving, family safety, individual liberty, etc.
In pushing for his ridiculous, liberty-denying bill, Tierney cites cases of children getting hold of weapons and discharging them, resulting in the death of a sibling or a friend. That is, he wishes to legislate against accidents — though for now he seems interested in only those accidents in which firearms are involved. Which is fortunate, because retrofitting pool water or stairs to only work for individual users would probably prove too costly even for Democrats — though of course they could demand that the stair makers or chlorine distributors pick up the tab.
But notice that carefully bracketed out of his argument by way of emotional blackmail are those instances — some very recent and well-publicized — of, eg., a teenager using a parent’s firearm to defend the home and his siblings from home invaders while the parents were away. And then of course, there are those scenarios one can dream up wherein a family being under siege is not, alas, part of Her Majesty’s Secret Service and lacks the training to, for instance, drive cars that transform into submarines or fire surface to air missiles from the tailpipe of their Ford Flex, and so perhaps while fighting back, the registered gun owner is wounded and can’t return fire — and the other spouse, or some other member of the family picking up the pistol, then has the option of maybe throwing it at the attackers. Which, God speed, hard charger!
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Under his bill, guns made in the United States would have to be built with this technology two years after the bill becomes law. Older guns being sold by a business or individual would have to be retrofitted with this technology after three years.The bill says the cost of retrofitting these older guns would be paid out of the Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture Fund, where confiscated assets from criminal investigations are placed.Gunmakers who do not comply with these requirements could be held if they don’t meet the new federal standards, which would be developed by the Consumer Protect Safety Commission.Tierney’s bill is supported by the Children’s Defense Fund Action Council, and is co-sponsored by 13 House Democrats, including five other Massachusetts Democrats.
I just burst out laughing and spewed coke zero across my keyboard at the buffoon Tierney. Wow.
On a more serious note, God help us.
Tax revolt to a kill.
The Pol Who Disarmed Me.
Hoplopussy.
Buffoonraker (thanks, angstlee).
Live and Let (the Little People) Die.
You Only Live While the Politicians Let You.
Just when I think our ostensible representatives couldn’t be more stupid, we have this.
A basic of network security applies here: The safest possible network is one that absolutely nobody can access.
The instant you allow someone access to a network/firearm/swimming pool/name it, you permit the possibility of misuse, either accidental or malicious.
This is something called reality. Thus, the proggtarded among us cannot grasp it, being firmly grounded in their Bizarroworld of impossible expectations.
Doctor? No.
Denials are Forever.
However, the corollary to that principle I mentioned above is what has the progressives motivated:
If the safest possible {X} is one that absolutely nobody can use, then there’s no point in anyone having {X}. Therefore, give me your evil unsafe child-killing deathstick, you gun-fetishizing Hobbit bitterclinger.
Regulations are Forever
On Teh Won’s Secret Enemies List
The Clean Articulate Man With the Golden Tongue
The AG Who Bugged Me
Some titles don’t even need to be changed:
From Russia With Love.
The World Is Not Enough.
The President Who Fucked Me
Blunderball
MiddleFinger
Fixed.
TheSkyIsFalling
Die Today.
Quantum of Intelligence.
Jaundicedeye.
There are statistics that show that between 1994 and 2003, around 8 percent of the cops killed on duty were killed by their own guns that were taken from them.
From the link:
Oh, you mean like “a child gets his hands on a loaded gun and kills another child”? That worst-case scenario?
How about we have law enforcement demonstrate this technology for us for a few years first? I don’t have statistics on “children getting access to guns and killing other children”, but I suspect they are less than 8 percent of handgun-related murders. Clearly we should address the larger threat first. And besides, if something is good enough for us, it’s good enough for law enforcement (and vice versa).
Obamasapussy
Looks to me like cranky is winning the thread, though I still think “Hoplopussy” is damned clever.
On His Majesty’s Secret Perverts
BAM!
Thank you, McGehee.
“Die Today” made me laugh.
Dies Another Today
Dr. No-clue
The man without the golden gun or any other gun.
The laughing dumb shits.
You guys left me the shitty ones.
List of bill sponsors here.
Your Wife with the Nonworking Gun
Dr. I Don’t Know
Was it called Casino Royale because of the metric system?
Obamacare is Forever
The Me Who Loved Me (an autobiography)
Awesome thread, guys.
The Man from Barry’s U.N.C.L.E.[‘s] Tax-Exempt Organization
” Dr. I Don’t Know” -> Dr. I Know Nusssink! Nussink!
Golden I?
Never Say ANYTHING Again (you racist bitterclingers) ?