Re: Gun Control - Should Ordinary Citizens be allowed to Own, Carry, & Use Firearms?
Reply #442 –
“Smart” Guns — ........ President Barack Obama ordered the Consumer Products Safety Commission to review manufacturing standards for gun locks and gun safes. Gun control supporters have long wanted the commission to be able to impose standards on firearms that no manufacturer could meet. NRA opposes requiring guns to be made with electronic equipment that would allow the guns to be deactivated remotely, or with other features that gun owners do not want.
[glow=blue,2,300]"Smart" Guns = Infingment [/glow]
The very moment any gov't attempts to mandate that firearms be equipped with such features (unwanted by it's owners),
then the gov't oversteps it's right, infringing upon the rights of all free men to
choose how they can protect themselves ..... period.
The Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) that “the inherent right of self-defense has been central to the Second Amendment right,” and that the Second Amendment protects a pre-existing individual right to keep and bear arms.....
...... There are too many stories of children playing with guns. This even happens in areas with strong gun culture where you would think the parents would have been around guns enough to know the precautions .......
Too many stories of children drinking or eating poison, or running into the street after a ball too.
The list seems endless ................................
Gun locks are an option, & as long as they are an option they are fine.....& an option I sincerely suggest ...... but, the moment the gov't hints on making gun locks mandatory, then there is a serious problem. That graduates their use from a viable option to an infringement upon a free man's right to self-protection, which is protected by the U.S. Constitution -- but not granted or bestowed by the Constitution.