Comment on New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 11 months agoWe already do that, with guns. Precendent is set.
Comment on New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 11 months agoWe already do that, with guns. Precendent is set.
HuddaBudda@kbin.social 11 months ago
The understandable difference being that a gun has but one purpose: Kill people.
Whereas everything else I have mentioned, including 3d printers are multi-purpose. Not intended to kill, but to serve multiple roles.
Though, it is a good point that few devices could be cobbled together to make infinite guns so long as you had material. So I am not saying it isn't a class of it's own, just where does the logic end with that point?
Is it only legal for a company to print guns? How does a license alone protect people? I don't think that is something I could answer.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The thing is, banning guns is giving them an inch. NYC is already trying to grab 3d printers. Hell the ATF infamously made showlaces into unregistered machine guns, and a felony. everydaynodaysoff.com/…/shoestring-machine-gun/
And abroad, the UK went after knives.
Never think they’ll stop at guns, because they won’t. Its slippery slope, but that slope is supported by historical evidence.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Isn’t it lucky where that slippery slope starts?
It doesn’t start before guns with high explosives, despite them being arguably “arms” and inarguably more useful in a tyrant-overthrowing war.
And it doesn’t start after guns with knives and all the other things you’re sure they’re going to take, even though they could have taken them at any point in the past 20 years.
Nope, the slippery slope starts exactly at the point it cuts into the profits of the gun lobby and the convenience of reactionaries, the moment they “grab guns” by introducing things like “licenses issued at the completion of a background check, safety and operation test and demonstrated ability to store safely”.
The pro-gun community sure hit the jackpot there.
lemming741@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People dismiss the slippery slope as a logical fallacy, but I think that’s a mistake. If there are enough people fighting for whatever is at the bottom of the slope, I think it’s a valid argument. Was repealing Roe the end of the abortion rights debate?