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Defense Distributed Sues State Department Over 3-D Gun Censorship
SonicSpike writes with word that Cody Wilson, whose projects to create (and disseminate the plans for) printable guns have fascinated some and horrified others, is not going to quietly comply with the U.S. State Deparment's demand that he remove such plans from the internet. Wilson, says Wired, is
picking a fight that could pit proponents of gun control and defenders of free speech against each other in an age when the line between a lethal weapon and a collection of bits is blurrier than ever before. Wilson's gun manufacturing advocacy group Defense Distributed, along with the gun rights group the Second Amendment Foundation, on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the State Department and several of its officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry. In their complaint, they claim that a State Department agency called the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) violated their first amendment right to free speech by telling Defense Distributed that it couldn't publish a 3-D printable file for its one-shot plastic pistol known as the Liberator, along with a collection of other printable gun parts, on its website.
Or, alternatively, you're a moron who is talking out of your ass.
There exist legal limitations on freedom of speech. And just because a group wraps itself up in the first amendment doesn't make it sincere.
I have heard entities say "hey, it's our right to boycott", only to say that if someone boycotts them their freedom of speech is being endangered. They don't apply the same standard, because somehow it's different.
Because humans are irrational and self serving.
Like your entire post.
If American want to keep shooting one another, I don't give a crap.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
It still amazes me that Americans think guns are OK.
Bottom line is, More guns = more dead Americans
http://qz.com/37015/how-school-killings-in-the-us-stack-up-against-36-other-countries-put-together/
WHEN the US starts thinking their people and their children lives have value, then perhaps they will finally take the steps to protect them by removing guns