Victims risk lives with mandated “gun safety”

Government officials and the victim disarmament lobby have been
pressing hard for laws to mandate trigger locks and “smart gun”
technology. Most people don’t realize that these “safety
features” can actually put victims’ lives at risk. Consider
these facts:

Trigger locks can make a sidearm useless to anyone but the owner.
That means if the owner is injured, unconscious or absent, nobody
- — not even a family member, friend or peace officer — can use
the sidearm to stop a criminal attack. Who will be responsible
for the “stupid gun” that cost somebody’s life?

So-called “smart guns” are actually electronically-restricted
firearms. The electronic restriction slows down the victim, but
doesn’t affect the attacking criminal. What happens if the
electronic-restriction chip fails, or the battery dies? In an
emergency, the user will be jerking and clicking and smacking
the sidearm … while the violent criminal just laughs.

Criminals doubtless will find ways to defeat or bypass trigger
locks and electronic-restriction technology, or they will simply
obtain guns without those user restrictions. Only law-abiding
peaceful citizens will be forced to use defensive sidearms that
might not work when they need them.

Ironically, while government officials are rushing to mandate
these “safety” features which make self-defense harder, they
don’t tell citizens this truth: the police have no legal
obligation to protect unarmed citizens from criminal attack.
Thugs and rapists win … again.