On Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder said his Justice Department (DOJ) wants to “explore” gun tracking bracelets as part of its gun control efforts. Probably he’s just warming America up before issuing bracelets for other constitutionally guaranteed freedoms…
When discussing gun violence prevention programs within the DOJ, Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee that his agency is looking into technological innovations.“I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe,” he said.
“By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon.”
“It’s those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights, but at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis,” Holder said.
The Justice Department has requested $382.1 million in increased spending for its fiscal year 2014 budget for “gun safety.”
Included in the proposal is $2 million for “Gun Safety Technology” grants, which would award prizes for technologies that are “proven to be reliable and effective.”
President Barack Obama’s budget proposal also calls for $1.1 billion to “protect Americans from gun violence—including $182 million to support the president’s ‘Now is the Time’ gun safety initiative.”
Eric Holder is supposed to help defend the constitution and the rights it enshrines. Instead, he seeks to twist the words of the document and expects Americans to be content to enjoy their freedoms only if they wear a government-approved bracelet? Naturally, it is a short step to include GPS tracking and monitoring of the bracelets and to extend the requirement to other rights. How about offering protected free speech to only citizens with an approved bracelet? Maybe Holder envisions allowing free religious practice only if Americans submit to wearing other government insignia so they can be tracked while they worship.
Source: Washington Free Beacon
Kind of like that neat little star thing the Jewish folks nicely wore in Germany back in the 40’s. Made it nice and ease for the pickings. Hey, no problem. What kind of morons does this guy think we are, liberal Democraps or something?
Same concept different century…..nothing changes except the loads setting policy…Hitler was elected too ya recall! And he had all kinds of phoney incidences to blame the Jew…our scape goat is guns…and terrorism…..ya can learn a lot from HISTORY, but we don’t, we is STUPID!
We are doomed….it says nothing about monitoring gun use in the constitution. Nor does it have technology sub sections saying you can attaching stuff as it becomes available. It’s a pretty basic worded paper, not allowing new technology to cause it to be null and void. Technology will always be used against citizens….always….for your benefit and safety of course. n. Korea is probably the safest country in the world, right, they get permission to $#%&!@*…and gov’t approved hair cuts….
Start the stuff Holder, Americans need a just cause for revolt
How can we take that 2 million and make holer disappear.I say the hell with holder and stick a microchip up his ass and fellow him when he takes those jet trips that nobody knows nothing about.And it don’r look like anyone is worried about that 6 billion dollars that can’t be found that’s what they should be doing instead od screwing around with that idiot holder.
bull$#%&!@* f u
I dont think so,idiot.
Sorry Holder but you won’t succeed 😉
not a chance!
Exactly! Keep ya bracelet
Lets put some bracelets on you holder. HANDCUFFS!!!!!!!