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NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers, Attempts to Target Ghost Guns
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this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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Even I will admit this one is a stupid one. Maybe I'm biased because I have a 3D printer and am aware how fucking hard it is to keep in working condition, especially for high temp plastics needed for "3D printed" guns. Instead the legislature should target the ownership and sale of receivers.
Or the legislature should stop trampling on our rights.
2A is the only enumerated right with a specific "do not touch" admonition, and yet it's probably the most violated right.
Your rights end where my nose begins, and unrestricted gun access impedes the rights of others to live.
The founding fathers built that amendment in a time whith very different technology from today. Nowadays a gun can and frequently does mow down an entire room of innocent people/children.
If you care about the lives of your children you would do something to bring our death rates in line with the low rates of Europe. We have an almost ten times higher firearm death rate than European countries. The solution is not more unfettered gun access.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
https://www.statista.com/chart/27724/gun-deaths-in-europe/
The right to vote would like a word.
Yet another dishonest gun grabber pretending like gun deaths is a remotely relevant statistic to go by. Probably because any actual relevant numbers like "homicide" don't actually support your agenda.
Any gun death is a gun death.
Homicides are bad.
Suicides by gun are bad.
My agenda is to reduce these deaths.
Cool. Guns are the tool, not the cause. You're looking at it backwards. Why do people commit suicide? Why do they kill others?
At best you're ignorant and at worst your intentionally lying because you'd rather people died than you had to actually prove you were a responsible gun owner. Either way, your "gut feelings" about suicide are demonstrably wrong.
Means reduction is a massive part of suicide prevention, at both a social and personal level. It's why they take away knives but not spoons, despite a determined enough person being able to kill themselves with basically anything, even gravity.
And do you know how many people who survive a suicide attempt go on to die by suicide? 1 in 10. Do you know how many people survive suicide attempts with guns? Basically 0.
Even your "it's a mental health problem" excuse is bullshit.
I know the motivation is to demand something impossible is done before you will even consider gun control -- in this case, accessible mental healthcare for every man, woman and child in America that can instantly cure them of complex problems far beyond even the most cutting edge medical science, so completely that they will never relapse for even a minute, delivered within a budget of $0.
But do you know what you're actually doing? Admitting that the American public are simply not healthy enough for such permissive gun laws to be safe.
So how about we just take your guns away and when you've finished building that impossible mental healthcare network, you can have them back.
In Colorado we recently voted to help people commit suicide if their circumstances suck enough, and I’m for that.
I think if you take away a person’s means of suicide you are encasing them in a prison of flesh. A person has the right to decide whether their own life continues and if your plan for suicide prevention is to remove the means, it just means you’re willing to force people to suffer fates worse than death.
Please take advantage of this new public policy.
So are me and my life property of the government then? If not, why the fuck does the government have a place in telling me what to do with my life?
Yeah how dare "the government" tell you not to go on a killing spree that targets children or threaten your wife with a gun if she tries to leave.
You can feign all the melodramatic indignation you want but your peers and politicians have shown over and over again how little they actually believe in the "freedom" you claim to value.
The majority of the pro-gun crowd staunchly vote Republican, the party that says you can't smoke pot or can't pay a consenting adult for sex and they can listen on your phone whenever they want.
And of course like every government, they also say you can't build your own home with your own hands, can't own land mines and hand grenades, can't drive or fly without a license, can't run a kitchen from a public toilet and a million other rules that the pro-gun crowd doesn't object to because they know there are massive public safety risks without those regulations.
But the moment someone suggests adding semi-automatic guns to that list, the pro-gun beat their chest and pretend they rule themselves as free and independent men who don't need no society.
And the moment a Republican in a gun-happy, right-wing state suggests banning gay or interracial marriage (again) or executing women who have abortions, they cheer furiously.
Not of your freedoms came from the barrel or a gun, nor your own hand, nor the people you support.
Lmao nice irrelevant rant.
They're catalysts.
Simply owning a gun increases your chances of killing someone.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-ownership-associated-with-much-higher-suicide-risk.html
https://apnews.com/article/science-health-homicide-d11c8f4ac07888b19309c3e1ff2ae3c9
Yeah, nobody worth a damn believes your bullshit
No, prohibiting people from being armed impedes their right to live.
I carry a weapon because I was almost killed by a pair of boots once, worn by a man about 30 lbs heavier than me. I’m never going back to that situation, where somebody gets to decide whether I live or die just because they’re bigger than me.
My life is precious and I intend to keep it, and that’s why I carry a weapon. Nobody has the right to force me to be at other people’s mercy.
This is just a repeat of one of your other comments.
I never said otherwise.
It's the pro-gun community that has been pushing the "gun control is pointless because you can just 3D print a gun" lie in the first place.
But honestly, fuck your right. Just because something is an amendment, doesn't mean it's moral -- and any right that comes at the expense of countless other lives is definitely immoral.
What's in it for us to even let you keep it? You've made crime worse, you maximise the damage domestic terrorists can do and enthusiastically voted for the tyrants you swore you'd protect us from.
Half of you wouldn't even wear a mask in a pandemic, but we're supposed to believe you'll be the saviour of democracy?
Well one day, that democracy is going to take away your grossly permissive access to guns and you're going to be left with 3 choices.
You could meekly hand over your guns, admitting that all your promises were actually just fantasies and bravado after all.
You could comply with the new licensing and safety laws, something you could have agreed to 25 years and thousands of murders ago.
Or you could follow through on your threats to become a domestic terrorist and prove once and for all that your guns always mattered to you more than your country, or it's citizens, or it's democracy.
I'd prefer the first two but I'm not even sure we'd notice the third since 80% of mass shooters are already legal gun owners anyway.
Still, at least it would be the biggest enablers of gun violence dying to gun violence, rather than score of innocent and oppressed people.
Once you said "fuck your right", you lost all credibility.
Anyone who says something like that is if no use to me, or society.
Go pound sand.
Oh boo hoo.
The founding fathers could have just as easily included the right to own slaves and the right to help yourself to children's bodies since they were apparently cool with those too.
Would you be rushing to the defense of those too? Probably, since they would benefit you and what you wanted and you could hide the immorality of it behind the constitution.
The only rights the right actually give a shit are the right to own guns and what they incorrectly think "free speech" means. They're happy to strip people of every other right from the right to life to the right to not be imprisoned without charge.
Do you really think the right to bear arms is just for the satisfaction of shooting guns, at the cost of lives?
Like, the people who wrote that amendment just decided that lives weren’t important?
No man. The whole point of a human right to defend oneself is that human life is precious.
You’re trying to compare a world where guns are allowed by government, in which people die, to an alternate world where they aren’t allowed and so people don’t die. But that’s not what happens when you disarm people. They don’t stop dying. There are endless, endless, endless, endless examples in history (oh, and in the news like right now) of governments and armies just mowing down unarmed populations.
The whole point of a right to be armed is to protect people from being in a totally asymmetric relationship with the people who are armed.
There's endless examples in countries that have a fraction of the wealth and stability of America and exactly zero from comparable countries -- except of course from within America itself.
The US government has the most comprehensive domestic surveillance networks in the world and the second amendment did nothing to stop it.
The US government has repeatedly massacred striking workers and the second amendment did nothing to stop it.
The US government sends American citizens off to fight and die in foreign wars that are neither a threat to the nation nor a humanitarian effort and the second amendment does nothing to stop it.
The US government routinely executes unarmed minorities and the second amendment does nothing to stop it.
A US government that enslaved and oppressed millions of black people and the second amendment did nothing to stop it.
A US government that wiped out the native inhabitants of their land in deliberate acts of genocide.
The US government has repeatedly conducted experiments on the population, often fatally, and the second amendment does nothing to stop it.
The US government imprisons people far in excess of the rest of the world and the second amendment does nothing to stop it.
Conservative politicians functionally and literally disenfranchise voters and the second amendment does nothing to stop it.
Conservative politicians openly call for a Republican dictatorship and the second amendment does nothing to stop it.
Yet you still try and convince people you're not just sharing your hero fantasy that's literally never come true for anyone.
How stupid do you think people are?
A "well regulated militia" that has no proof they know how to operate their firearms at all, let alone to a military standard.
A "well regulated militia" with potentially zero combat training or even basic combat communication.
A "well regulated militia" full of morbidly obese, middle aged men, beholden to no physical fitness requirements whatsoever.
A "well regulated militia" that is riddled with racists and psychopaths that want to kill innocent people.
A "well regulated militia" that enthusiastically votes for idiots and tyrants every opportunity they get.
A "well regulated militia" that insists they'll sacrifice their lives to protect their countrymen but wouldn't even wear paper masks during a pandemic.
The founding fathers would have nothing but contempt for you.
A "well regulated militia" is reasoning. It's a dependent clause. The independent clause, the right itself, is as follows "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed"
It's bizarre that you'd openly admit that while trying to pretend that you're not twisting their words and intentions to suit you.
They gave their reasoning for the right to bear arms. A single, clear justification.
You didn't even bother to claim that gun owners meet the given justification for that right. Instead, you've argued "oh they just added that bit for no reason".
Should we selectively edit the other amendments too, stripping them of their conditions? Third amendment, soldiers are no longer allowed to live in houses. Fourth amendment, no warrants shall be issued. Fifth amendment, no person shall be held to answer for a crime.
The constitution is littered with conditions and caveats but the only one they didn't mean just happens to be the one that would require you to be fit for military service.
Fuck your right to free speech. You don't deserve it.
Then get the majority of the country to agree and then take it away from me.
If the majority of the country wants to end the right to life of a certain ethnicity, is rust acceptable to you?
Nope, so I'd campaigning heavily for the "no genocide" party.
Your reply wasn't really the "gotcha" you'd hoped it was.
Got it. You're just a dishonest hypocrite then.
Nope, you're just not not following, either because you're deliberately choosing not to or because thinking upsets you so you go without.
In democratic countries, rights are granted and revoked at the will of society, through the process of electing representatives. This system has no inmate morality and relies on the majority of public being good people capable of making informed decisions.
It's why as hard as they tried, conservative bigots couldn't hold on to things like slavery, segregation, disenfranchising women, casual sexual assault in the workplace, criminalising homosexuality and all the other horrifically immoral shit the right-wing has been on the wrong side of for centuries.
Which is also why conservatives routinely undermine democracy with things like gerrymandering, obstruction and astro-turfing to ensure its their will that is represented, not the public's.
So if you think you can take away my right of freedom of speech, go right ahead but we both know you'll struggle to find more than a handful of fascists to support it.
If by some miracle you did, sure, I'll abide by it. It's what society decided and I'm not going to become a domestic terrorist over it.
How many people in the pro-gun crowd say the same?
So then nothing should be wrong with popular genocide then, since rights are determined solely by vote, no?
It's okay. Not everyone can be smart. You don't need to keep trying. I'm sure that you have some kind of redeeming features, just not your mind or political opinions.
As you perpetually remind the world when you speak
"I know you are but what am I" is literally the first comeback a child learns.
I guess you'll be able to understand it then
"Nuh uh"