...the human brain is so complex, and with the centuries of inter-breeding, there is no chance of any one having one that is not in some way majorly f@@ked-up, as is clearly evidenced by the comments in this thread....
I was trying to convey that there is some albeit too little scientific research. Those were links that I thought might be of interest. For example: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-slow-firearm-death-without-banning-all-guns Now that Obama has signed a bill to study firearm safety (in the past opposed by the NRA) we may get safer guns just like we got safer cars. I have always wondered why using the same technology that is inside a cell phone, we make guns more electronic, one payoff being that we are then able to track guns. It would then be a simple matter to control the gun near schools or anywhere for that matter. The gun would be programmed depending on your stated reason for use. The gun would be tracked by GPS. If you are a hunter, you would only be allowed to shoot it in designated hunting areas or within 100 yards of your legal property. If you are a recreational user, you would only be able to shoot it in shooting ranges or within 100 yards of your legal propterty boundary, mostly near your home. If you are a police officer, there would be no restriction. If you were near a school and posses a weapon, no matter who you are the school would be notified that a gun is entering its surrounding space. If you are a second ammenment revolutionary, you would have no restriction except near schools. Anyone that wanted could also purchase a device that would tell them when someone was armed within 50 yards of them. The only place the gun would be shielded from the detection device was if the gun was in the gun owners property. Outside your own legal real estate or address on record, the gun would be seen by the electronic device by anyone. Etc.
Wow that would be some seriously fucked up shit. 1) gubbermint storm troopers could just turn off any gun in the area, like they have a broadcast to change street lights going to an "emergency". 2) You seem to think govt is competent to think of everywhere it should be legal to fire your gun. these bozo's can't even get the right house for a drug raid bust. btw: Your attitude is why I like full tang ceramic knives. They don't show up on metal detectors and cannot be remotely turned off. hopefully we will see guns invisible to detectors soon too
No. Read carefully. If you designated yourself as a second amendment revolutionary, the gun could be used anywhere without it being able to be turned off, EXCEPT near a school, say within 30 yards of a school. The gun turns itself off since the GPS would tell the internal electronics where it is. There is no big brother making the decision at any point. Only in the passing of the law that all guns would have to have GPS and the firing mechanism would be controlled electroncally, and that everyone has to designate themselves when buying a gun. Breaking (hacking) into the electronic mechanism of the gun is possible, but it would be as hard as breaking a secure communication channel (for all practical purposes impossible). The math behind it is solid. It is a very straightforward thing. There is no government involved, only matching of designations of yourself, and physical boundaries of where the gun is as pinpointed by GPS.