What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can Smart Guns Save Lives?
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A “smart gun” is designed to only work in the hands of the gun’s proper owner. With the first smart gun potentially coming to market later this year, can the tech deliver on its promise?
Guests:
Champe Barton, reporter at The Trace
Kai Kloepfer, founder and CEO of Biofire
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| 0:31.0 | Just a quick heads up before we get started, we'll be talking about gun violence |
| 0:35.0 | and suicide, particularly against children in this episode. |
| 0:39.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:48.0 | Guns are the leading cause of death for miners. |
| 0:51.0 | The CDC says there were more deaths from guns than car crashes in 2020, |
| 0:56.0 | and the number has only risen since. |
| 0:58.0 | One major gun control group found that an average of 350 children a year find a gun and shoot themselves. |
| 1:05.0 | It's a tragedy that's happening all over the country. |
| 1:08.0 | Sheriff Mike Chitwood says a curious toddler killed himself with his father's gun. |
| 1:13.0 | This 9mm, the child found in the master bedroom nightstand, loaded. |
| 1:17.0 | Night family and friends are remembering a kindergartener who accidentally shot and killed himself. |
| 1:22.0 | We're learning a three-year-old was found, found a gun and shot himself. |
| 1:29.0 | But one potential solution has started to gain steam, smart guns. |
| 1:35.0 | Handguns that are designed to work only in the hands of the registered owner. |
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