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3D Printers For Peace Contest

Posted by samzenpus on from the peace-love-and-toner dept.

First time accepted submitter Bas_Wijnen writes "3D printing is being condemned in the media because of the potential for printing guns. Engineers at Michigan Tech believe there is far more potential for 3D printers to make our lives better rather than killing one another. To encourage thinking about constructive uses of 3D printing technology Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology (MOST) Lab and Type A Machines sponsor the first 3-D Printers for Peace Contest. Designers are encouraged to consider: If Mother Theresa of Ghandi had access to 3D printing what would they print? What kind of designs could help reduce military spending and conflict while making us all safer and more secure? Anyone in the United States may enter and there is no cost."

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  1. Guns are, what ensures peace by mi · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Nasty regimes in need to hide their mismanagement of their own country with a war, as well as criminals — they all prefer unarmed victims.

    Thus, personal weapon is a perfectly peaceful symbol. Being able to print one — and keep it at home — is a good way to protect one's domicile, without begging the government for a permission to exercise the Constitution-guaranteed right.

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    In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
  2. Just wanna say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Guns aren't about "killing one another."

    A credible threat of retaliatory violence is the single most effective deterrent to actual violence.

    Guns are about stopping YOU from attacking ME. Having it can make that possible even if I never use it to kill anyone.

    1. Re:Just wanna say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Guns aren't about "killing one another."

      A credible threat of retaliatory violence is the single most effective deterrent to actual violence.

      Guns are about stopping YOU from attacking ME. Having it can make that possible even if I never use it to kill anyone.

      You are using logic. The Libtards really hate that because they cannot refute it. They have to mod you down (done), call you names, scream at you, defame and mischaracterize you, and then pat themselves on the back for championing their ideology and its favorite methods.

      What they WILL NOT do is explain why mass shootings almost always happen in "gun free" zones where law-abiding citizens are unarmed, explain why conceal-carry permits decrease violent crime, explain why places like Chicago with terribly restrictive gun laws have such high murder rates, or explain how the "zero tolerance" schools they run benefit children in any way when they expel them for point a frenchfry at another child and saying "bang bang" like the cops-and-robbers games children have always played. Oh, but even the most avid gun-grabber politicians want their guards to be armed. Because somehow, that's different. They are more special than the rest of us, you see.

      You see, it is not that they don't want to explain those things. They would love to. They simply cannot. They are not reasonable people. They are highly emotional and emotionally volatile. Your post was on-topic, was not trolling, etc. But they modded it down anyway. It went against their ideology, you see. They had to mod it down for the same reason the Catholic Church had to refuse to look through Galileo's telescope (and then punish him). Galileo did nothing wrong. You have done nothing wrong.

      You know how the rabid foaming-at-the-mouth Linux zealots only hurt the adoption of Linux? That's what this kind of childish emotion does to those who might have been sympathetic towards whatever merits Liberalism might have had. Is that so hard to understand?