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If you can make a smart gun that is as reliable and foolproof as a Glock, without destroying the ergonomics, you'd have something. Failure is not an option. 5

• zzalpha 9y ago
  Thank you! I appreciate that you took my comment seriously and decided to respond in kind. I totally agree with you. It's an extremely difficult ask, and I'd never claim that the current iteration of this technology is anywhere near workable. Another commenter, here, used the analogy of self-driving cars, and I think it's an apt (if imperfect... the problem spaces are profoundly different) one, though perhaps not the way they were intending. In both cases, the technology problems are enormous, and the failure modes could result in the loss of human life. So it better be pretty damn foolproof if it's to gain any kind of widespread adoption. Yet, you don't get the same level of negativity levelled at efforts to build self-driving cars... that it's impossible and car companies should have never tried. The original question was: "Are there any gun- and tech-literate people who actually think smart guns like this are a good idea?" I think the nuanced answer, here, is: Not yet. But perhaps some day. It seems we might agree on at that!