Why not put more intelligence into guns. E.g. fingerprint sensors, determine how often/when they are taken out of the house, ...
Update: zoning technology could prevent guns from being used at schools.
Update: zoning technology could prevent guns from being used at schools.
-fingerprints: because if the system fails, you have no gun. Internal malfunction? Greasy finger(s)? Gloves? Dirt? Dust? People whose fingerprints are really hard to print?
- determjne how often/when they are taken out of the house: talking specifically about the USA, that is a gross over-reach of the government (local + federal) via registration. A central database with who has what gun at what time? I'm against it.
I hope I can inspire you to look-up some additional information. Responsible gun owners are not a problem. The FBI has statistics on "defensive gun use", reporting that it happens over 250,000 times per year. Compared to what number? 35-40,000 deaths per year involving guns? And of those, 20-30,000 are suicides.
Please look up hard-data. Trying to take away guns will not solve the issues society faces. Then why do it?
That problem too can be addressed through statistics. How often does a fingerprint sensor fail really? Note that the system could be made to err on the safe side. And could a different technology like Apple's faceId provide a solution perhaps?
> A central database with who has what gun at what time? I'm against it.
Could you explain why?
How many of those incidents are someone with a gun shooting at someone else who also has a gun? If guns were banned neither person would have a gun, so the defensive shooting might not be necessary.
Do you mean data from all the studies covered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_gun_use that seem to come loaded with critizism and are from the 90s?
If we're just pulling random studies to prove our point I'd like to point out https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jels.12219 as covered in https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-11/-more-... which seems to disbunk this whole "good guy with a gun" thing.
> Compared to what number? 35-40,000 deaths per year involving guns? And of those, 20-30,000 are suicides.
Yeah that's not nothing and all these numbers could likely be lowered in the long run by proper gun legislation as evidenced by other countries that chose to actually do something about it. You're for the second amendment protections on gun use and that's alright but please, let's not pretend that the majority of numbers actually mean anything in these discussions.
> “The most frequent occurrence each year involving crime and a good guy with a gun is not self‐defense but rather the theft of the good guy’s gun, which occurs hundreds of thousands of times each year,” the new study points out.
Also zoning technology could prevent people from using guns at schools.