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Ok, I've fired mutliple types of guns, from shotguns for skeet, to 9mm pistols and M-16A2's (both semi and fully auto), and I have to say that I'm more aolng the lines of pro-gun than anti. I'd love to see a world where guns in general aren't necessary, but I'm also enough of a realist to know that sometime a gun is the best, and somethimes only defense available.
My mother is a better shot than I am with a handgun (thanks to being left handed and right eye dominant), and I'm glad to know that she can have a handgun in her house, and that she knows how to use if , if necessary.
Personally, I see a simple easy to understnad technological answer to the problem: Wheel locks. See, in the local supermarkets, when you take the cart outside the local supermarket, they stop working, because a radio transmitter there "tells" the cart that it's gone beyond it's usefull range, and a wheel lock kicks in, stopping it from working. Now, why can't people who want handguns for protection for their homes have the same thing? Say, you buy a home, or condo, or apartment. You get a gun, and it comes with a locking mechanism that, if you take it outside your home area, disables the firing mechanism? Poeple who want the handgun for protection have it, but they can't take the gun outside to use on the neighbors, or whomever.
You could also extend the concept to recreational hunters and the like, setup areas where the gun works only if they're inside a zone where the gun receives a signal OK'ing it to work, or after it's passed through a "reader" of some sort that ok's it for use for a specific time frame, or in a specific region.
I could definitely see where something like this would be disapproved of, second amendment-wise, but it would maybe ease the idea of gun ownership being an inherently evil thing for some people, since the guns would be designated for uses they were intended for.
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