Why Restricting Guns & Magazines in NOT the Answer

Good thing people don't illegally trade files on the internet AMIRITE?!

Once 3D printers are fast enough, cheap enough and can print multiple materials (including electronics), everyone won't want one... they'll need one. Also, the big area is again developing countries. This goes along with the "infrastructures in a box," "one laptop per child," and "self building cities" initiatives talked about at places like TED conferences.

 

300 million LEGAL weapons make it a waste... and countless illegal weapons. It is going to take 2-3 years just to get whatever changes are planned to be put in to place and challenged in court, do you realize where 3D printing will be then?

I encourage you to talk to your friend again. You can at least use a 3D printer for prototyping which then allows you to mill with a CNC faster, or with an at-home foundry you can create molds for mass production.

We're not that far off. Before even half the guns were off the street (if they outlawed all guns tomorrow), people would be making them in their homes by the tens of thousands. Many people already do.

The 18th and 21st amendments are PROOF that the government can't stop something that people want. The war on drugs is PROOF that the government can't stop what people want.

Alcohol, cigarettes and drugs all kill far more people than guns... so again, priorities.

 

That's a ridiculous statement, because this directly relates to the gun and high-capacity ban as seen from the videos in my first.

Again, people on both sides of the aisle support 3D printing and what it means for individuals. However, it is going to be an internal struggle for anti-gun folks because people by the thousands will use 3D printers to print gun parts, regardless of legality.

3D printing scares the **** out of people, and it should. But that fear should turn in to understanding and embracing rather than outlawing or shunning.

I have no opinion on Anti-trust laws, because the internet has made information free. No one has a monopoly anymore, just look at open source projects. Our patent laws (especially software patents) are completely broken however.

 

Yeah, because arresting and fining illegal file shares has stopped people from file sharing!

The number of people illegally sharing files gets larger by the day, not smaller.

 

In 2010, 211 kids aged 0-14 were killed in alcohol related car accidents. 131 of those were IN THE CAR with the drunk person.

http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/Impaired_Driving/data.html

To act like alcohol, drugs and cigarettes don't kill kids is completely ignorant.

 

Thanks for an intelligent response bringing up real issues.

But how will these companies protect their intellectual property? How will the government enforce any laws passed? Will inspectors be allowed in your house to check your 3D printer? Will they require your 3D printer keep a running history of everything printed?

Without things of that nature, they will have no clue what people are printing, and good luck having laws passed that allow them to do that... and that's the point, 3D printers will for the first time mean sweeping government regulations have no real authority over them.

 

I only mentioned the number of deaths, which shows lack of focus on the real issues at hand. The vast majority of gun related deaths are drug related, so wouldn't decriminalizing drugs then reduce gun related violence where drugs are involved?

I brought up the kids killed in DUIs to prove a point, that yes, all of those things kill kids... just like guns. Having a discussion with more than one person means not all of my points are relevant to both parties.

 

People are actually working on 3D printers, that create the 3D printing materials from raw materials. /mindblown

I imagine stuff like that is the reason people are scared and don't want to get involved in the discussion.

Technology is going to make it where government regulations are less and less effective. We can either hide from that fact, or embrace it and come up with ways as a society to ensure that we are raising the type of kids that will lead the future generations in to making the right decisions with the new found freedom.

 

So I'm an extremist because I'm trying to educate people about future technologies? GOTCHA!

This stuff is coming, you can't hide from it, and gun laws won't stop it.

 

Folks is plural.

 

An AR15 is LESS powerful than hunting rifles. An AR15 mechanically is EXACTLY like any other semiautomatic hunting rifle, it simply LOOKS menacing. "Assault rifles" account for less than 2% of all gun related murders.

People DO use their AR15's for hunting, all the time. However, states like Colorado say the AR15's 223 round is NOT powerful enough, so you need a higher caliber.

EDIT - I wanted to point out I was just replying to plat's sttement, I have NO intentions of getting in to a gun debate. I'd rather focus on 3D printing and what it means for our future.