On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:19 AM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 April 2015 at 20:50, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:40 AM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I hope that isn't an April Fool! >>> >>> Well, this isn't rocket science... >>> >>> In 2013, it was more likely Americans would be killed by a toddler than >>>> a terrorist. In that year, three Americans were killed in the Boston >>>> Marathon bombing, while toddlers killed five, all by accidentally shooting >>>> a gun. >>> >>> >>> Because all those guns make you safer... >>> >> >> Guns can be very dangerous, but like drugs there is no way to stop people >> from obtaining them. It's already possible to 3D print one, and this >> technology will only improve from now on. >> >> So how does every other country in the world manage to have less guns per > person than the USA? Magic? >
Independently of Brent's remarks, with which I agree, my point is that even if forbidding people from owning guns works -- and I'm sure it works to some degree at the moment -- such restrictions become increasingly ineffective as technology progresses. Home 3D-printed guns are at the prototype level at the moment. Both the designs and 3D printing technology will keep improving and becoming cheaper. People are already experimenting with 3D printing ammunition. The trouble with trying to solve problems by restricting access to technology (in this case firearms) is that, as technology progresses, the laws have to become increasingly repressive to keep up. Preventing people from owning guns will soon devolve into a multi-prong approach where you have to restrict access to information on the Internet (if that is even possible), regulate the sale and ownership of 3D printers, worry about the availability of the common components that go into gunpowder, etc. For any difficulty you pose, there will be eventually a technological solution, and the only possible response from the regulatory mindset is to forbid more things, until we need permission to do almost anything. The real problem we have to solve is this: how to attain a society where we can trust each other? Repressive regulation goes in the opposite direction and it misses the point. Brazil is on the lower end of the scale in your map, yet is has much more gun violence per capita than the US, which shows us that lowering the number of guns per capita is not guaranteed to solve anything. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
