Why are so many gun fans against changing things so there has to be a fingerprint or?

Question

something to prevent kids and theives from pulling the trigger? Like everything else that's changed in this world, it could be incorporated over many years and we wouldn't even remember how it used to be 10-20 years from now. Pro or con and why?

I've only heard one good reason why this fingerprint requirement should not be mandatory, and that's because it's not ready to be used. Sorry my batteries need changing! What a poor excuse, and the constitution doesn't say anything about regulating guns, but then it allowed for slaves too. Wake up people, let's change with the times. We are the worst, and the best country in the world.... and we could be so much better.

Answer 1

Right now biometric technology isn't really good enough to actually be useful in a self-defence weapon (which is why police departments aren't using it).

For sporting weapons it wouldn't be much of an issue (so countries where people aren't allowed to carry a gun for self-defence won't have the problem) since a failure of the biometrics would just interrupt an event.

As for thieves, they'll probably figure out a way to disable the biometrics on any guns they steal.

Answer 2

I think it is because it would be difficult to enforce. I mean, in order to fire a bullet you need to bang on the back of it in the right place, so its not too hard to make 'em. If 'legal' guns have to link up to a federal database and run your fingerprints to see if you are old enough, qualified, and within your rights to shoot it, before they will actually fire the bullett, then the 'illegal' guns would have a great advantage.

Even if you could design it to be just-as-fast, what happens when you're being robbed and your gun happens to be out of batteries? If it fired anyway, then the bad-guys would just carry around guns with no batteries. If it didn't fire, that is a serious detriment to the self-defence idea of firearms.

Also, I disagree with you when you say: "we wouldn't even remember how it used to be 10-20 years from now"

My dad has plenty of guns that are more than 20 years old.

Answer 3

Let us remember that it is not being a gun fan. An American is granted the right to bear arms under the constitution of the United states 'without' infringement.

How about we..... ask....

Why are so many 'Free speech fans against changing things so they need lip piercings to lock thier lips unless in a free speech zone?"

If you believe in the Constitution and the Bill of rights and think the founding fathers understood what happens when you bind the hands of 'lawfull citizens'...

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence ... From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . . . The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good" (George Washington)
During first address to congress.

"The great object is that every man be armed" and "everyone who is able may have a gun." (Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution. Debates and other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia,...taken in shorthand by David Robertson of Petersburg, at 271, 275 2d ed. Richmond, 1805. Also 3 Elliot, Debates at 386)

We cannot limit the rights of Americans......

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined" (Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836)


Edited:
The Constitution did mention slavery, it said 'all men are equal'

Your proposed limits on gun ownership is one more shackle in the chains of tyranny.

Answer 4

Actually, it is because it would make the cost of a gun ungodly high & you couldn't get one for practical reasons. Some people STILL live by subsistence. They hunt for their food. I am gluten intolerant and cannot eat a LOT of things (like grain-fed animals - commercial pork & beef). If I want meat I have to either pay a fortune for it or hunt it. I can't eat complex carbohydrates because they almost all contain gluten & cause me to bleed internally. I am stuck with fruits and a very few vegetables that are NOT processed anywhere near anything that contains gluten, such as wheat. If I couldn't afford a gun to hunt with, I just might starve. It's a very real problem for a very real number of people.

Answer 5

Because the government can't keep from loosing thousands of computers every year, government systems get hacked monthly, and gun registration leads to gun confiscations. Especially, at times when the government is powerless to protect the law abiding (see New Orleans after Katrina)

Answer 6

It is because every gun law almost is a hinderance to the law abiding.The crooks are always going to get guns. They aren't going to buy them at the store.So the Govt. does a background check and a fingerprint on me.Then a corrupt or worse Govt. gets in .Now it knows where all the Patriots are and what guns they have to confiscate. Meanwhile ,the crooks have their guns and the Govt. has no inventory and the upper hand now on we decent citizens.

Answer 7

no way, what if the rightful and law abiding person of the firearm finger print changed due to a/ an injury? would the firearm still fire? I doubt it . I want my fire arm to function each time I pull the trigger>PC units sometime fail, Guns do not harm anyone on their own,it is those who chose to miss use them in the wrong way .Why don"T we put something in alcohol that quickly makes someone sick to the point they cannot drive what they drink to much. Punish those who commit the crime not those of us who don't

Answer 8

very stable. It relatively is going to teach how people who attempt to makes issues greater effective can relatively finally end up making them worse. perhaps it became a splash bit an exaggeration with the aspirin, I doubt you may get in any hardship for that, yet I accept as true with what you try to assert. what's this international coming to? surely one glace at our at present deteriorating international could say that we are doing something incorrect.

Answer 9

1) what happens when the battery dies? 2) When someone wants to become a Dictator the first thing they do is make guns illegal. 3) with the patriot act whoever is the sitting president only has to declare a "National Emergency" to become dictator.

Answer 10

What I've heard is that there are already pleanty of laws regulating guns-but they aren't enforced. It would thus do moe good to enforce the laws already on the books than to add more that aren't.