A manufacturer believes it has a solution to the mass shootings plaguing the United States. It's a personalized smart gun that uses fingerprint technology to make firearms safer.
Ginger Chandler is the co-founder of LodeStar Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She believes her company's smart guns could be a solution to the nation's rising gun-related deaths.
Ginger Chandler, co-founder of LodeStar Works.
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dismissed by the user who was In this case, it is confirmed by his or her fingerprints.
"What we do know is that when an unauthorized person picks up that firearm when they are stressed or tries to do something in a hurry, they do it.
According to recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, firearms-related deaths will increase by 15 percent overall in 2020, to 45,000, said Chandler. surpassed people. It's the highest number ever recorded since the CDC began tracking firearms.
Ginger Chandler is the co-founder of her LodeStar Works in Chattanooga. Tennessee.
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Daniel Webster is co-director Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. He has researched criminal justice approaches as well as approaches to reducing gun violence through a public health lens.
"Thinking of this as a public health problem really expands the way we think about it and the possibilities for solutions that have to be addressed... [for example] youth, teenage suicide, and the boy committed the murder," Webster said.
An analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine found that increased firearm-related mortality is a "preventable cause of death."
Daniel Webster, Johns He is a co-author of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Hopkins University. I'm the director.
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Said failed - building vaults - apps, pinpads, fingerprints - into smart guns could prevent these preventable deaths.
"First, there's an app on the phone. One way he unlocks it is a pin pad on the side," Chandler said. "And put your fingerprint on that pad."
Not everyone agrees. Webster said it was "not realistic" that guns would help reduce homicide rates, even though smart guns "have greatly improved safety".
LodeStar Works is a Chattanooga, Tennessee gun company that develops smart guns. I'm here.
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Previously, the National Rifle Association While it has supported smart guns, it has raised concerns that the technology will become mandatory for all firearms sold in the United States.
However, many Americans support gun control laws. An ABC News IPSOS poll found that 89% of Americans support background checks on all buyers.
Chandler said making guns safer, without taking them away from Americans, is "net positive."
"I'm a shooter. I hunt. That's what I'm involved with. It's a passion. I enjoy it," Chandler said. "I absolutely respect anyone who says I shouldn't have any more guns... I respect that and want to respect it in the same way."
