This leads right into why it’s extra helpful to us gun owners to self assess and just stop leaving guns in cars so much.
In my neighborhood most people don’t lock their car doors and every now and then local social media is full of people claiming their car was “broken into” (IE someone tried the handle and it opened)…list of items stolen consistently include guns, work laptops, phones, wallets, purses…and it’s like…please stop leaving your cars unlocked and stop leaving that stuff in your car overnight!
In my neighborhood (rural Colorado), especially in the winter, people leave their car running in the parking lot of the grocery store, post office, etc if they are just running in for a couple errands.
I drive a 2009 Jeep so I don’t know about all of the tech available on the new cars. Is there a way to leave the car running but immobile until the owner with the fob get’s in?
On many modern cars you either turn the car off when you get out (and lock it)(call this the old fashion way), or you get out with the keys, close the door, and then remote start the car with the FOB
On a Ford you could use the keykpad to lock the doors (press/hold the two last buttons 7/8 and 9/0) with the FOB inside but that still risks the keys being stolen at the least.
Most cars aren’t Fords so without those Ford-ubiquitous buttons the door it’s probably difficult to lock the keys in the car.
It would be relatively easy to do. To avoid confrontation with the thief, you could let the car be driven one mile, and then shut the engine down and override the door locks and window controls, and then call the cops. “Thief in a basket!” Knock out gas could be optional.
The idea behind the discussion is that the question itself and the phrasing is important. Currently, they’re designed to divide/confuse/mislead people. If they were better, like these examples, people would realize they’re mostly the same, and in the middle.
i’ve been saying this for a long time, including to a very blue friend at lunch the other day. Nearly all Americans want mostly the same things. Instead of seeing that, we’re arguing about silly fringe topics and sacrificing the bulk of what we want. Single topic voters are a good example of this, and how we’re being used.
Yes, I noticed many or most of them said the same using double speak. Which is why I posted what I did. Once you boil it down to my I believes; I guarantee that percentage will drop to the 20s or lower. Still a good discussion starter.
My far far left manager and I used to have some pretty heated conversations about politics, then, we came to a realization, we agreed on the problems and challenges. What we didn’t agree on was Who should solve those issues. He was convinced that the Government was the One Stop Shop for solutions to all things, Me, I was and still am convinced that the solutions all require Less Government Intervention.
Gun owners are not the problem. Never have been. It’s the people who should not fit to own a gun that have them we should all fear. It was an outright shame that it took the Feds so long to charge and bring Hunter Biden to justice.
To Them, it already has.
Embarrassing pictures all over the web. Salacious accusations that he had to defend against, but lost. Arrested, tried and convicted in one case, Arrested tried and convicted in another case and now, My Gosh, They are actually going to sentence him!! How much more should a poor recovering druggy have to go through?
