Yesterday in San Francisco, a group of leading Silicon Valley tech investors announced a partnership with the families of Sandy Hook victims that will seek to raise $15 million in seed funding for 15 to 20 start-up companies dedicated to preventing gun violence. "A year from now we will be able to point to the Googles, the Facebooks, and the Twitters of gun safety," said Ron Conway, a billionaire angel investor who made big early bets on those companies. "This is a huge area for genuine innovation."
With several Newtown families standing by, the tech investors announced the partnership, the Sandy Hook Promise Innovation Initiative, on the three-month anniversary of the massacre. "In the instance of our shooting, it was the mother's guns that were used," said Nicole Hockley, whose first-grader was killed. "Had she had biometrics on the gun, or a different sort of safe technology protecting the guns, then he would not have had access to them in the first place."
this is tremendously positive and responsible, i always felt if enough positive thinking people with money were to come together they could counter the NRA gun lobby and fraidy cat politicians.
we countered their election stealing efforts which i would think were more important to them then they have shown about gun violence so this should not be viewed as impossible which is what they want us to think.
Biometric or "smart" guns use RFID chips, fingerprint devices, or magnetic rings to ensure that they can only be fired by their owners. James Bond used a palm-reading biometric gun in Skyfall, but the only model readily available in the real world is a Smith & Wesson revolver that requires shooters to wear a magnetic ring that releases a trigger lock. Smart guns have been called stupid by both the NRA, which views them as an impediment to self defense, and by the anti-gun Violence Policy Center, which sees them as a marketing ploy to boost firearm sales by convincing people that guns can be safe.
of course it sounds stupid because it twarts their efforts to make guns and their destruction to everyone including your 5 yr. old.
