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[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by zeek

How long before the first child dies from a 3D plastic gun?

It will happen far later than the first kid killed in a car accident, or that drowned in a pool, or that was killed by a knife. So why no outrage about making cars, pools and knives illegal?

Since a "gun" is dangerous there will certainly be a kid killed by one.

But that isn't the question. The real question is if the US govt actually has the power to make them "illegal".

Do you want 3d printers to be illegal? If not then it would be, for all practical purposes, to make the access to the plans for them to be illegal.

[awareness]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

It will happen far later than the first kid killed in a car accident,

I made this argument about 9/11. 3000 died and panic and alarm resulted in a clamp down on our privacy, and police become military -- the Patriot Act -- like never seen before.

Yet over 40,000 die from car accidents a year, and where's the alarm?

Now more die from opioids each year, than car accidents. There is alarm over that. Now people in real need of pain medication are being denied.

Personally, people can make guns in their garage. And bombs. We're never gonna stop that. (The gun manufacture's are most alarmed over 3D printed guns).

I'm more alarmed over human nature ... and ... the power of mythology & religion. But even Jesus couldn't do anything about that ... so far.

If we reacted to mythology and religion, like we did to 9/11, we would ban all of them forever.

Oh ... I forgot ... religion is protected by the constitution ... like guns. What was our founding fathers thinkin'?

[zeek]

Originally Posted by awareness

If we reacted to mythology and religion, like we did to 9/11, we would ban all of them forever.

Spoken like a true...Stalinist.

Oh ... I forgot ... religion is protected by the constitution ... like guns. What was our founding fathers thinkin'?

Maybe they were thinking that since we don't have all the answers we should keep an open mind and an open system to allow for pursuit of the truth. Religionists and anti-religionists who think they have all the answers never want to do that.

[zeek]

According to the New York Times the Trump Administration is mulling over another unilateral tax cut for the rich. They say a proposal under consideration at the Treasury Department would bypass Congress and use federal regulation to index capital gains for inflation, a $100 billion boost for high earners. Do you think the rich need another tax cut? I don't.