Sipsey Street Irregulars: Gottlieb is always ready to compromise away your rights as long as it seems "reasonable" -- this time on "smart guns."

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Gottlieb is always ready to compromise away your rights as long as it seems "reasonable" -- this time on "smart guns."

The Smart-Gun Debate Comes to Washington State

The poll, jointly commissioned by Washington CeaseFire and the San Francisco-based Smart Tech Challenges Foundation, found that 40 percent of interviewed gun owners said they would consider exchanging their conventional guns for smart guns. Heck, even Second Amendment Foundation’s Gottlieb says he theoretically likes the idea. “If someone could come up with a smart gun that was reliable and workable, I would buy it tomorrow.”

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: It is our own dang fools who will enslave us - not our evil enemies!

Needs must we deal just as brutally with BOTH groups to remain with any semblance of liberty.

III; January 29, 2015 at 6:23 AM
Oregon Hobo said...: Hold on now, I'm no fan of Gottlieb's antics with regard to universal registration, but I don't need to make up reasons to dislike him. All he said in that article (aside from appropriately describing the technical problems) was that he'd buy a smart gun if it was reliable and workable. I'd consider it too if I had the cash to spare, though I think it'll be at least another 50~100 years before the technology is as stone-cold reliable as one would demand of a defensive firearm.

That's entirely different from supporting the asinine mandates in places like New Jersey, and there was absolutely nothing in this article to indicate any support from Gottlieb for such legislation.

Now I need to go get some caffeine so I can forgive you for making me defend Alan Gottlieb this early in the morning.

#OREGON HOBO#; January 29, 2015 at 9:39 AM
Anonymous said...: What everyone needs; a gun that the tyrants can turn off when they want or need to!

The judenrate Gottlieb might even be a stockholder in the company promoting this for all I know. Here's something else he and Bloomberg agree on.

Bloomberg and Gottlieb's list of gun issues of which they agree about seems to be only growing, don't ya know!; January 29, 2015 at 11:42 AM
Frank Giampetro said...: If they are available on the open market along side conventional firearms, thats awesome, let the market sort it out, let the company sink or swim based on their products.

I, for one, will not own one, nor will I allow my conventional firearms to be removed / replaced.; January 29, 2015 at 12:59 PM
ExGeeEye said...: This old codger (dangit I'm only 50) would really like some new, non-electronified 1960's technology cars to come back on the market.

Smart GUNS? Stuff em in your catalytic converter.; January 29, 2015 at 4:37 PM
Anonymous said...: The "smart guns" will work about as well as smartphones (sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.

A guy us about to rape your daughter in front of your eyes and your pistol tells you "try again later"....

Yeah, that's the ticket. Uh huh. Sheesh.
As far as GotLies is concerned one need only consider this a squared plus b squared equals c squared. Gotlies thinks background checks are a good idea and he has no problem, AS A RESULT, seeing HIS thoughts and position foisted upon the rest of us. The question to ask and see answered is simple - what to believe.... Our lying eyes or Gotlies own demonstrated position?; January 29, 2015 at 7:23 PM
PO'd American said...: I sure the electronics will be run by software that can be shut down by the government at their leisure. I think I'll pass on this technology said everyone.; January 29, 2015 at 8:06 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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