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Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "The promise of a fully 3D-printable gun is that it can spread via the Internet and entirely circumvent gun control laws. Two days after that digital weapon's blueprint first appeared online, it seems to be fulfilling that promise. Files for the printable gun known as that 'Liberator' have been downloaded more than 100,000 times in two days, according to Defense Distributed, the group that created it. Those downloads were facilitated by Kim Dotcom's startup Mega, which Defense Distributed is using to host the Liberator's CAD files. And it's also been uploaded to the Pirate Bay, where it's one of the most popular files in the filesharing site's uncensorable 3D printing category."
At the High School my wife works at five students have committed suicide with guns in their homes.
Zero have been killed by an armed intruder.
If there were laws against guns, then we could prosecute the numb-nuts who put these plans up on the internet. We could arrest people carrying guns *before* they kill our kids in our schools. We could arrest criminals trying to acquire guns before they commit crimes with them. *Real* laws would help. The problem is they haven't restricted the clause in the constitution to be relative to the context in which it was written. A "Gun" back then was a flintlock that could be fired about once every 1 to 2 minutes. Those are the "guns" that they had in mind. The public owning guns is still a silly idea (because, sorry, the public owning guns isn't going to cause any military on the planet to even blink in terms of stopping military aggression), but if it were restricted to flintlocks, we would have a whole lot fewer graves being dug every year.