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Why Restricting Guns & Magazines in NOT the Answer

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Svpernaut, Jan 15, 2013.

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  1. Svpernaut

    Svpernaut Contributing Member

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    Patient has 75 per cent of his skull replaced by 3D-printed implant

    But hey, it'll never catch on, right?

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    #221 Svpernaut, Mar 8, 2013
  2. Rashmon

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    Not sure what your point is anymore. 3d printing is an awesome technology and will revolutionize many industries.

    Tightening gun control legislation and regulation is a separate issue.
     
    #222 Rashmon, Mar 8, 2013
  3. Svpernaut

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    Feel free to read through the replies from the many posters here who called me crazy, stupid and various other things because of the "Star Trek" nonsense known as 3D printing.

    Each new additional use for 3D printers also means they will become more and more common, again making the fact that people can and will use them to craft a multitude of items including weapons and weapon parts is very relevant. At some point, there will be a call and a possible movement to restrict 3D printing because of the possibilities to craft weapons with them... which would be on par to the government restricting the industrial revolution a century ago.

    This is a subject that is going to get more play over the next few years. I guarantee it, and I've posted proof throughout this thread. Including 3D printed large magazines, 3D printed meat, 3D printed organs and even a 3D printed car.

    TL;DR - My point is, trying to restrict weapons isn't the answer... getting to the root of the problem (read mental illness, war on drugs, poverty, lack of education, etc.) is the answer.

    My responses are for these confused souls, and those like them. We can print organic tissue, metal, hard plastics and more. This isn't "coming," this is here - and that is why it is crucial we focus on root causes rather than stop-gaps. In short order technology is going to make it where whomever wants to do harm, can.

    Many 3D printers are "self replicating" and are actually created with off-the-rack electronics. You can't regulate them no matter how hard you try. Now you may think you can regulate the materials, but the most popular 3D printing material is plastic. Good luck with that.
     
    #223 Svpernaut, Mar 11, 2013
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    If everything you're describing with respect to 3D printing is true, I'm in favor of regulating the everliving s&*t out of it before it becomes a runaway train. Replicating weapons or the technology to illegally manufacture weapons that can't be traced is incredibly dangerous. If that stifles innovation a little bit but keeps illegal weapons off the streets, so be it.

    And if we're not careful, they'll be 3D printing viable Republican presidential candidates, and we can't have that.
     
    #224 kpsta, Mar 11, 2013
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    I'm still waiting to be able to 3D print one of these....
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    and these....
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    #225 MoonDogg, Mar 11, 2013
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    3D printers could make those now, you just might not want to smoke or sex up what you get.
     
    #226 rocketsjudoka, Mar 11, 2013
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    Guns I can understand.
    But why are the evil socialists trying to ban magazines? sorry if my men's fitness and gq subscriptions kill too many trees and that i'm not down with reading them on a screen, yo!
     
    #227 conquistador#11, Mar 11, 2013
  8. rocketsjudoka

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    Just high capacity magazines like Architecture and The Economist. :p
     
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    Heavily regulating 3D printing would stunt the growth of our society as a whole, and it simply isn't something that can be done anyway... considering that most 3D printers can replicate themselves. Also, there's no possible way to stop the trading of blueprints, CAD drawings or the like. Ask the music, movie and software industries.

    3D printers will allow people of all ages and walks of life to achieve and obtain things they never had the resources or access to. Regulating 3D printing would be on par with trying to make sure that the industrial revolution never happened. It is that much of a game changer.

    LOL! Rep'd.
     
    #229 Svpernaut, Mar 12, 2013
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    Defense Distributed now has a Type 7 FFL. They can manufacture and distribute firearms. gun grabbers can suck it.

     
    #230 magnetik, Mar 19, 2013
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    #231 bigtexxx, Mar 19, 2013
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    #232 MoonDogg, Mar 19, 2013
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    My god, you are still on this? Let me punctuate it then.

    Have you ever heard of the expression "can't see the forest for the trees?"

    A tree is a component of the forest, but not really relevant to the bigger picture which is on a different scale.

    But it's actually more than that - it's not that you can't see the forest for the trees, supernut, that phraseology doesn't come close to capturing the scale of relationship mismatch here.

    A better analogy would be that you can't see the forest for the trees, because you are lying face down under a giant redwood, in a pile of deer dung, with a randy grizzly bear humping you with reckless abandon while a northern spotted owl is hooting in the background and filming it with his webacm.

    That is what 3D printing is with respect to the current national cancer of gun violence that results in dead children shot 11 times being shrugged off as the inevitable consequence of celebrated liberty.
     
    #233 SamFisher, Mar 22, 2013
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    Wow. How painfully silly. If the government tried to take your pistols from you and you plan on meeting them with an assault rifle...let me know how that works out for you. Unless you have tanks, riot gear and tear gas, you have already lost that fight.

    You know this already from a logical perspective.
     
    #235 Refman, Mar 25, 2013
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    yeah it's better to have a kitchen knife. You're right, a gun is no better than that and we really don't need to have such things :rolleyes:
     
    #236 bigtexxx, Mar 25, 2013
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    No you do not need an assault rifle. You want an assault rifle.
     
    #237 fchowd0311, Mar 25, 2013
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    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DconsfGsXyA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #238 magnetik, Mar 26, 2013
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    I love how they use all the creepy background music to try and get their point across.

    Got to love innovation.
     
    #239 bobmarley, Mar 27, 2013
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    You don't live life based on need.
     
    #240 ROXRAN, Mar 27, 2013
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