The mechanical failure argument is bunk. Yes, we still take the chance of mechanical failure. With modern guns and proper maintainence, it is a small chance. Now, you compound that chance by adding electronics to the mix. You go from an incidence rate of less than 1% chance of stoppage to somewhere in the neighbourhood (by current publication) of 10-20% chance of stoppage. So every 5-10 times that the smartgun user pulls the trigger, nothing will occur, and every once in a while, it'll jam mechanically too. I don't like those odds. You tend to get one chance when things go ugly. I don't want my one chance to fail every fifth time statistically.
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