Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings 1388
New submitter Bugs42 writes "CNN.com has an opinion piece on the possibility of cramming guns full of computers and sensors to disable them in certain buildings or around children. The author, in true mainstream media fashion, completely fails to see any possible technical problems with this. Quoting: 'How might this work? Start with locational "self-awareness." Guns should know where they are and if another gun is nearby. Global positioning systems can meet most of the need, refining a gun's location to the building level, even within buildings. Control of the gun would remain in the hand of the person carrying it, but the ability to fire multiple shots in crowded areas or when no other guns are present would be limited by software that understands where the gun is being used. Guns should also be designed to sense where they are being aimed. Artificial vision and optical sensing technology can be adapted from military and medical communities. Sensory data can be used by built-in software to disable firing if the gun is pointed at a child or someone holding a child."
Re:What could possibly go wrong... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe painting them pink would help reduce the number of gun fatalities ?
What about Dwarf criminals? (Score:5, Funny)
Sensory data can be used by built-in software to disable firing if the gun is pointed at a child
What do I do if I'm being assaulted by a dwarf?
Re:What about Dwarf criminals? (Score:2, Funny)
Construct body armour out of children of course.
Re:What could possibly go wrong... (Score:4, Funny)
ah, but would "you have a small penis" arguments then no longer be used as compensation for not actually having any logical arguement?
Re:if you want to stop mass killings (Score:2, Funny)
The Constitution was misinterpreted
http://images.uncyc.org/commons/9/9b/Right_To_Bear_Arms.jpg [uncyc.org]
Smart bullets (Score:5, Funny)
Rather than having guns that ware smart, we should have smart bullets that will only kill bad people. After being fired the smart bullet will immediately ascertain the worst person within range using a sophisticated algorithm weighing criminal history, internet searches, and music preference, and impact that person right in the face, piercing any face armor up to 2 inches of hardened steel, and igniting it's incendiary and high explosive payloads.
It is logically impossible that there is not at least one bad person nearby, because a room full of only good people would never fire a gun. It's logic.
The fact that the most likely target of a smart bullet is yourself, this will greatly reduce the number of shootings. The only trick is to get people to abandon regular bullets. I know, we could make people with regular bullets at the top priority of the smart bullet hit list algorithm! There will a violent but short war between the "smarties" and the "norms", but *then* there will be reduced shootings.
Re:doesn't go far enough (Score:0, Funny)
I nominate the comment above at the most stupid -as of yet- posted in the year 2013.
Re:What about Dwarf criminals? (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe try picking him up and throwing him out of the way?
No one tosses a dwarf!
Re:Helpful? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh no, hes run in to the subway, there's no GPS down there our guns are useless!
Re:What could possibly go wrong... (Score:5, Funny)
Your 'humble opinion' is absurd.
But anyway: http://www.riflegear.com/blogimages/ShootingKitty1.jpg [riflegear.com]
Re:What could possibly go wrong... (Score:4, Funny)
Not only would painting guns pink keep men from buying guns to look cool, Painting guns pink would also have the added benefit of getting women more interested in gun ownership.
Congress must pass a law immediately requiring all guns have a minimum amount of flair in order to be legal.
"Sorry sir, this AR-15 only has 23 pieces of glitter, hello kitty pendants, and rhinestones. The law states you need at least 24 pieces of flair. Get yourself down to Claire's and bling this weapon up immediately".
Re:What could possibly go wrong... (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe adorn them with butterflies and stylized dinosaurs, too?
D'oh. You just leaked part of Borderlands 3.
Honestly, those game have the prettiest guns ever. :-)
Some additional ideas (Score:5, Funny)
1) Guns should also be fitted with an electronic device which reads minds to ascertain whether the carrier intends to fire it for good or bad reasons. "Good" and "bad" can be decided by a live, crowdsourced twitter feed of the gun-carrier's thoughts. If bad intent is identified, a speaker on the gun's handle will begin reading responsive tweets, attempting to persuade the carrier not to fire (these responses will also be crowdsourced for appropriateness and effectiveness). At the same time, a special wireless network will alert emergency personnel of the carrier's location and mental state.
2) All guns should be fitted with miniaturized versions of TSA body scanners which will scan all passersby to determine whether they are carrying guns whose safety features are disabled.
3) All guns should be fitted with a voice-recognition system which is able to analyze the screams of shooting victims and disable the gun if they are determined to be children.
4) Finally, guns should be fitted with an electronic device which can summon Jesus Christ and a his angels to heal the injured, resurrect the dead, and reverse time in the event of a shooting.
Re:What could possibly go wrong... (Score:5, Funny)
My fiancee loves black guns, and doesn't care for pink.
Well you know what they say about black ones ....
Re:What could possibly go wrong... BSOD (Score:4, Funny)
are you sure you wanted to do that? click yes or no
And when you are defending yourself against an armed assailant, this gives a very literal meaning to "blue screen of death".
Re:What could possibly go wrong... (Score:5, Funny)
Well that might explain why there are so few people with large penises these days, the small penis'd guys killed them off.