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The First Fully 3D-Printed Gun Has Been Successfully Test-Fired
On Friday, we mentioned that Defense Distributed had created a (near-enough-to) fully 3-D printed pistol. Sparrowvsrevolution now writes that "Last week, the Liberator was fired for the first time at a firing range and successfully shot a .380 caliber bullet using a remote firing setup. Over the weekend, Defense Distributed's founder, the anarchist and radical libertarian Cody Wilson, was bold enough to try firing it by hand. The results of that test, witnessed by a reporter, indicate that the era of the 3D-printed firearm may be upon us, for better or for worse." Predictably, certain politicians are — so to speak — up in arms about it.
Offtopic. This article is about a 3-D printed gun. Try to keep on topic instead of starting a flamewar. I guarantee you that your post isn't going to win that debate, so why not discuss the specifics of the 3-D gun instead of a general gun control debate? Is that too much to ask for?
A bigger, more controlling government is going to lead to a safer society.
We definitely do not want the public to have more freedom, since it is obvious that the public is not to be trusted with it. With great power comes great responsibility, and at this point the public fucked up with it, so the public's power must be reduced.
Thankfully, the demographic trends point to this happening! =^) It is only a matter of time before the populism of a bigger socialist government is going to take over the special-interests of civil liberties.
Besides, civil libertarians have never advanced the human conditions or the arts, or has ever done anything to make someone else happy, since they are fundamentally against the idea of socialization. Why should they benefit someone else, when the fruits of their labor belong to them, correct?
Try reading the comment to which I was responding. Is that too much to ask for? I notice you didn't complain about that. Nor did you apparently complain about this comment above:
Nor did you reply to the gun control comment below this one. It isn't going "off topic," despite the fact that I was responding to an established topic thread, that appears to bother you. Advocating gun control is fine. Sniping at gun owners, the NRA, and Republicans is fine. It is interjecting facts into the discussion that you apparently find disagreeable. Is it because the facts are against your position? Can't we all just agree to be wrong together?
As to winning debates - facts seem to be far too rarely considered in moderation or "winning" debates on Slashdot. After all, the mob is Slashdot.* Popular prejudices often rule even if they are wrong. I expect you will ultimately be pleased with the moderation of my comment, I've come to expect it. Nonetheless, the facts should be presented for people to consider even if it displeases you. People can decide for themselves.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
The funny part is, the troll are going to run wild today over the site, because all the mod points are going to be used on this particular article to bounce posts up or down, till they are entirely depleted.
Good luck with that, let me know how it all turns out for you.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
I would rather get killed by something i had a chance of defending myself against than something killing me instantly. So, yes, it is comforting knowing that punks in dark alleys are not carrying guns.
Seems to me that the majority is suffering the Tyranny of the minority right now. There are more non-gun owners than gun owners and yet the NRA is stopping us from having the law applied equally, carving out exceptions on background checks so their army of guerilla gun sellers can keep the gun business in profits.
There is no constitutional right to profit. All sellers of weapons need to be held accountable for selling to criminals, unstable people and fanatics.
If the NRA won't police it's own why should the public pick up the tab? It's cheaper for the public to just ban selling guns from the backs of pickups, ban the AR profit center and make the gun business get its shit together.
When will the gun supporters can get their collective heads pulled out of the gun businesses rear end and demand that they put in place a responsible plan to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people?
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Studies show that among people who are involved in firearm-related crimes, those victims who carry guns are 4.46x more likely to get shot than those victims who aren't carrying guns: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19762675 Protection, my ass.
Nope. I used quantifiable phenomena--i.e., facts--rather than other peoples' opinions and avoided making arbitrary comparisons.
Good for you for digging up some numbers about murder rates, but good luck convincing anyone that the threat of roving gangs is so severe that arming the elderly is a moral imperative. I suppose you could threaten them with a gun, but that might backfire... literally and figuratively.
Hey, maybe we can transplant the brains of pensioners into armored cyborgs and they can carry giant, automatic pistols where their quadriceps used to be: "Citizen, get off of my lawn. You have ten seconds to comply! Ten... Nine..." Unfortunately for me throngs of tire-iron wielding maniacs aren't a problem where I live, so I only point guns at ducks, skeet, and targets.
Actually, I wrote my thesis on life experience.