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Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

Even if this bill was in good faith, I wouldn’t want it: I believe that the USA is headed into a civil war, and I want the good guys to have the ability to manufacture stuff if they need to. Be it guns or tractor parts, having flexible logistics will be invaluable. Not just for military use, but also for civilians who don’t have access to official parts.

In any case, the implementation of universal healthcare and UBI would be much more helpful for quelling violence. People who can have access to mental healthcare and with enough prosperity, are much less likely to become deranged enough to murder people. Measures like this, often exist to keep the peasants from being able to rise up against their overlords.

This thing is a product of malicious greed, not for the sake of good.

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elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Mental health care is a challenge even in universal health countries. MH is very time intensive.

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- lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Hearing about all this dumb shit these politicians are constantly doing certainly isn’t doing my mental health any favors
  
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Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Even if it was in good faith: 3D printed guns are not a problem. They are going to jam up very quickly due to softening and melting, if not just explode all together.

It would be easier, faster, and more effective to build a gun from things sourced at the local hardware store.

But also, even then. If someone is going to commit a crime with a gun they are unlikely to build it themselves. Most guns used in crimes are actually legally purchased, purchased at a gunshow, or purchased on the black market.

Anyone 3D printing a gun is doing it as a novelty. Because of that I don’t see this as a second amendment violation. This is blantantly a first and fourth violation.

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