Re: Crime and Safety engineering [was: Ooh a gun fight!!]

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 18:50:49 MST


>From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
>
>I will state however, that IMO, the gun manufacturers are being
>irresponsible in this day and age of technology, selling products
>that are not engineered so that only the owner can turn them on.
>If you can protect a computer from misuse, you should be able to
>engineer weapons so that they cannot accidentally (or intentionally
>in the wrong hands) harm people. If you accept this premise, the
>efforts by the gun manufacturers (or members of Congress) to try
>and enact laws that can keep people from suing the gun manufacturers
>are highly misguided. [I might be willing to grandfather certain very
>old weapons, but modern day products should be engineered to be safe.]

What you say is so obviously correct that, but for the efforts of the NRA
and its proponents, it hardly needs saying. We recognize that cars, in the
wrong hands, are dangerous. So we do what we can to make them safer, by
requiring that they come with such "unnecessary" parts as turn signals, seat
belts and headlights. We also require that drivers demonstrate their
competence at driving before they are allowed to do it. They must be
licensed and their licenses must be renewed from time to time. There are
databases which contain the name and address of every car owner in the
country. If their car is used in a crime or an injury-causing accident the
owner can be identified. Thank God there is no car-owners equivalent of the
NRA, or none of that would be possible. Thank God also that this country
will wake up one day, do the right thing and defeat the vocal minority of
2nd Amendment fanatics in this country.

-Zero

"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson

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