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perhaps people printing their own guns at home is actually quite bad and in fact should be controlled in some way without it being seen as a fundamental incursion on your rights.

just a thought from across the pond.

>>talkin+(OP)
Should people be allowed to own basic metalworking tools, or is that something else that would be OK to be 'controlled in some way'?

Maybe we shouldn't let people write their own software either, as there's all sorts of crime they could get up to...

>>talkin+(OP)
The idea that we should let government software run on our printers to prevent the rate case where someone both wants to print a gun and do some crime with it is absurd. There are more important 1st and 4th amendment considerations here

NYC doesn't have a gun problem. They regulate the shit out of guns to no effect. They should regress closer to the national mean and spend the resources on stuff that matters more. And even if they do want to regulate it, micromanaging everyone's 3d printers is not the way to do it both because of bad efficacy and bad precedent.

I'm glad there's an ocean between us.

>>talkin+(OP)
Do you support gun ownership absent of this idea? Or is your actual concern with guns?

>>talkin+(OP)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/23/ban-sales-po...

>>talkin+(OP)
You know, putting people in a straightjacket with feeding tubes as soon as they are born would reduce crime by 100% basically, so... why not?

>>talkin+(OP)
I'm also from 'across the pond' and think this is technically unworkable and is likely not going to fix any problems at all.