A commenter on a firearms forum quipped:
I want a cellphone with the reliability and durability of my Kalashnikov.Wish to heck I'd wrote that.
Not the other way around.
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Friday, January 11, 2013
QotD: You've Got That Backwards Edition...
So the "smart guns" idea, like zombies, vampires, the Charter Arms corporation, and other things that won't stay in the grave, has resurfaced, this time with a boneheaded CNN op-ed by someone who thinks that location-enabled "smart guns" could consult Google Maps, realize they were in a church or a day care center, and not allow the maniac too dumb to root his phone or download "SpreeKiller 1.0" from Android Marketplace to launch his killin' spree. (Of course the po-po's guns wouldn't have this feature)
A commenter on a firearms forum quipped:
A commenter on a firearms forum quipped:
Just vulgarly curious as to why Charter Arms is on your list? I like my snubbie...
ReplyDeleteWhy don't we just make a law that makes it illegal to shoot someone in a church or school? Oh, wait...
ReplyDeleteI wonder how this type of activist would react when someone hacks that "smart" gun.
ReplyDeleteAnd imagine the additional features when the LEO of your choice demands that there be a safety lockout that they can activate. Which will then be hacked and used against the proles allowed to possess such wonderful technology.
Out standing quote there.
ReplyDeleteThat would NOT happen Nylarthotep, because it would be !!*"ILLEGAL"*!!.
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*written* that.
ReplyDeleteRegards,
Word PoPo
Word PoPo
ReplyDeleteIt's pronounced "ver-nak-yuh-ler".
It's not boneheaded, it's brilliant. I'll bet Jeremy Shane is willing to "lead the venture", and administer the DARPA-style organisation. And the prize funds.
ReplyDeleteFor a fee, of course.
You would think the left would want us all to have a Bushmaster. Consider.
ReplyDeleteUp close and nasty, a full jacketed .223/5.56mm has about the same terminal ballistics as a 9mm hollowpoint. You can hide a 9mm pistol under your coat, but a rifle is patently obvious and virtually useless in an environment that includes even minimal security.
So all we have to do is to get those sister-raping gun hugging conservatives to surrender all their guns except rifles and we would live in a near perfect world.
Except for all those hammers and baseball bats and fists and feet.
http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_08.html
Charter Arms? The defensive revolver for non-gunnies. Beats the snot outa a Liberator....... €BD}
ReplyDeleteDamn. Yeah, I've never had a Klack go Tango Uniform after the latest AT&T software update...
ReplyDeleteI have a Lee Enfield with a slightly stripped screw on the safety. Locktite has worked so far, but I'll have to get a bigger screw and the hole rethreaded eventually.
ReplyDeleteI'd trade the old beauty in for a Zorg ZF-1 Pod Gun from Fifth Element, and never touch the red button, but anything less and the Lee Enfield stays.
I've got a better chance of winning the lottery and getting killed by bees on the same day than being the victim of a mass shooting.
ReplyDeleteLets ban bees.
Scott_S,
ReplyDelete"Lets ban bees."
For some reason, that kicked my giggle box right over.
The blank line gave it impeccable comic "timing". :D
It's pronounced "rong" ;b
ReplyDelete(Hope that smartgun lock works on blogs)
I am well aware that it is grammatically incorrect.
ReplyDeleteI'm also well aware that EVERY SINGLE TIME I USE IT I have to go through this discussion with some taped-glasses-wearing pedant or another.
Pedantist!
ReplyDelete(no tape; I use rubber bands)
WPP
Will this technology work on knives and ball bats and tire irons?
ReplyDeleteForget smart guns. Wish somebody could produce a smart journalist.
Actually, Tam, I believe correct usage is "wroten." Best practice is to precede it with "done."
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of Dave Barry's occasional "Ask Mister Language Person" column, in which he'd give egregiously wrong advice, and invariably get irate letters correcting it.
My phone is rooted and then I went as far as adding in a different ROM that wasn't as buggy as the the factory one. Because it was nerfed from the factory. That, and not be made more buggy by factory firmware updates.
ReplyDeleteI need my guns to work when I NEED them.
You have not been paying attention, JD. The anti-gunners are all about what you NEED. As in "nobody needs a 30 round magazine" or "nobody needs a semiautomatic weapon" or "nobody needs (fill in the blank)."
ReplyDeleteThey will tell you what you need, when and where. It's right there in the Constitution. Granted, you need your special interpretive spectacles, because it's in a penumbra of an emanation.
Tam,
ReplyDelete"It's pronounced "ver-nak-yuh-ler"."
Don't you mean ver-NOOK-yoo-lar?
Every time I hear "smart gun", I always think how are the smart gun advocates going to get rid of all the stupid guns?
ReplyDeleteHeaven knows, smart people have been trying to eradicate stupid people for years too...let's see how that is working out...politicians still here? Check. Idiot still running the country? Check. People still mortgaging themselves up to their eyeballs? Check. People still going to college to get liberal arts degrees? Check.
Oh...I forgot those are the smart people.
-Rob
And if they're so smart(people and guns both), they can explain to me why they always exempt LE from having 'smart guns'.
ReplyDeleteWhat's always confused me is just how do they think that these "smart" features won't be able to be defeated by anyone with even the slightest mechanical aptitude? As far as I can figure they will probably be the same as the S&W lock or the various magazine disconnects, and all of those can be quite easily disabled. Sure, it may prevent a guy who has just taken the gun from you from using it on you (maybe, and it might just prevent you from using it on HIM, which is why the police don't want it), but it sure as hell won't stop anyone who has an hour or two alone with the gun and knows what they're doing.
ReplyDeleteTook me ten minutes to disable the lawyer switch on a 686...and I ain't very smart.
ReplyDeleteAhem.
ReplyDeleteI hereby nominate Mr Skubinna for the winning quote of the day:
"Wish somebody could produce a smart journalist."
I bet it would cost a lot more than making a Charter Arms bangstick that was as reliable as a Liberator, though.
This idea is a level of stupid that requires me to no longer believe in real life. Gun software? This person lives in a strange cartoony fantasy land.
ReplyDeleteA Kalashnikov, from all reports, still works just fine if you get it slightly damp, unlike my last three cell phones.
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