Petition WhiteHouse.gov to Retrofit Firearms with 'Smart Technology'

Please Sign the Petition to Retrofit all firearms with fingerprint recognition or other 'smart technology'

by Jan 23rd, 2013 

Sign the PETITION HERE 

Below are some comments and articles on this issue, 

please post your comments, 

we want to hear from you! 

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'New Jersey passed a law in 2002 mandating that once such a gun becomes commercially available, all guns sold in the state must incorporate the technology within three years.' Read the full article HERE 

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Susan from Texas says: 

Here's a middle of the road approach to consider:
If I have to use a key to drive my car, open my front door etc...then why in the world don't firearms have a similar user safety feature? If a thumbprint can open a door, which technology is already developed,  it can also be used as a safety on a firearm.

If I have 6 members in my family, 4 are 'sane' and two are mentally unstable on psychotropic meds etc..., I would like to be able to program my firearm with the 4 fingerprints of the 'sane' family members. The military already has smart guns, why not the civilian population? Sandy Hook may not have happened if this had been the case. Of course there is no perfect solution, back to the car analogy, cars get stolen all the time and houses get broken into all the time, but at least we don't leave our cars and houses unlocked for anyone to walk in and use them. Why do we do that with our firearms? I think this is a legitimate question. So I lock my house and my car from intruders, but anyone can pick up my firearm and use it, there simply is no logic in this. If cell phones can have shared family plans, firearms can have approved smart technology, such as fingerprint. And no one can use my cell phone if it's locked, unless they have the code. The argument that fingerprints can be duplicated does not hold water. House and car keys can be duplicated too, does that mean we don't lock our houses/cars?
And the argument that it's too daunting a task is not logical, 
since millions of cars are recalled yearly for retrofit. 
At least give these ideas a fighting chance. 

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Bradley from FaceBook says: 

 Although fingerprints can be duplicated, their existence at a crime scene are enough to secure a conviction. Something different has to be done, because what we are doing now is not working. The idea of armed guards sounds plausible, unto you think about how many rounds a shooter can fire before they are neutralized. The ability to respond to violence with violence is a talent very few people can acquire. Most that acquire that ability lose it outside of a combat zone. I value our second amendment, but with it comes responsibility. The sad truth is that countries that have fewer guns have fewer gun deaths. Thomas Jefferson said that the law should be free from passion. The question is do we value our rights or do we value our children? What I am saying is a value statement, that I have no answer for. An AR15 or an AK47 only exist for suppressing and returning fire. They only exist to take life. You learn that all through formal training. You learn how to shoot to kill. You measure success in ratio of rounds used versus number of fatal shots that are successful. When we adopted our children me and my wife gave our firearms away. To keep them in a home where children that had suffered trauma were going to be living would be irresponsible. We were right. My oldest son had extreme issues. Giving him access to guns would have been like pouring gasoline on a lit flare. So without passion is the lives of our children worth a little inconvenience when it comes to installing fingerprint devices on guns? As someone who has looked down the barrel of an aggressors weapon; I would say yes.