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Tech based gun control is the solution

Let's face it! The President does not wish to alienate the NRA. But there is an easy way to enforce gun control without controversy. Establish Gun Free Zones, just like smoke free zones. Make this mandatory by forcing gun manufacturers to add electromechanical triggers that are activated by GPS and fingerprint scans. Set it up in such a way that as long as the gun's GPS recognizes that it is in a Gun Free Zone, it does not activate the trigger even if pressed. The fingerprint scan system will ensure that only the person who purchased the gun can activate the trigger. The government can schedule a target timeline for gun manufacturers such that by 2017, all guns manufactured or imported into the US have this system incorporated. Another tech option would be to include a triggering avoidance system (like the collision avoidance system currently available on most airplanes) - gun free zones will have this system in place and all guns sold in the US can be mandated to have this inc...

On Ego

Have a check built in to your thinking process so that the second you think you are smarter than anyone else, a red flag shoots up. The moment you realise that whatever you think you achieved over anyone else was just a random occurrence because of infinite other things that fell in to place starting from or even before the Big Bang and that your current situation is so fragile that just one wrong cell division out of about 4.2 million that occur a second that goes unnoticed by the body's immune system could mean the end of you, all ego should vaporise.