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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Guns also are not manufactured clandestinely en masse, anywhere, because it takes a lot of precise industrial machining to do at scale. They are not like sex or weed that are impossible to ban, when you stop manufacturing them for nonsense reasons, they stop circulating and criminals stop being able to get their hands on them.

  This is false. There are multiple Latin American countries where street gangs have been manufacturing reasonably sophisticated all-metal submachine guns at scale in clandestine factories for over a decade. Even prior to the 3d printing boom, open bolt submachine gun was fairly simple for an individual to manufacture with common hand tools, and quantities scale rapidly with improvised tooling and readily available machines like benchtop lathes.

  With 3d printing, it has become even more accessible. Printers can be used to manufacture tooling in addition to parts, and the DEFcad community has been remarkably resourceful in developing new methods utilizing 3d printers. Everything from electrochemically etched, rifled, barrels to recoilless rifles with shaped charge warheads can be made at home if a person has no compunctions about breaking the law.

  You can see the impact of 3d printing overseas, where there are a number of rebel groups using 3d printed firearms as their primary armament. Banning guns might reduce the quality of what is available, but it definitely won’t end production in a country full of gun enthusiasts with the interest and skills to make firearms.

  I do not understand why Americans think they are such unfathomably unique snowflakes that none of the evidence or lessons learned from every other developed country could apply to them.

  As I said, our gun culture ensures people continue to make firearms regardless of what the law says. We have countless machinists, gunsmiths, and hobbyists that would manufacture guns as a form of protest if they were banned. Furthermore, we already have more guns than people and the vast majority of them would remain in civilian hands if the government tried to seize them.

  But most importantly, many Americans believe that the equalizing force of firearms—something that allows the citizenry to defend themselves against tyranny and for the weak/frail to defend themselves against the physically strong— is philosophically worth a small reduction in public safety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never suggested they didn’t. I’m suggesting that the country would have been better off if they both had weapons and chose to resist.

  We aren’t Germany. The founding fathers made sure we could arm ourselves. The choices we make are our own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is honestly, the dumbest, most American take in the world.

  Hell yeah brother 🦅🦅🦅

  It literally ignores the plainly obvious fact that not a single other developed country allows gun ownership, and yet, still have rights and democracy and freedom.

  Many other developed countries allow gun ownership. Educate yourself, my man.

  But more importantly, I literally do not care if they do or not. The point was never that democracy cannot exist without firearms, but rather that in the worst case scenario an armed citizenry can act as a force against tyranny. It’s a rare thing that it might be needed, and a last resort. No sane person wants a civil war

  Guns did not get your rights

  Except they literally did. How do you think the revolutionary war was won, softly spoken words?

  they do not protect you from a government that has AI powered drones with anti tank mines on them. Hell a fucking APC with a sound cannon will make your AR look like a child’s toy.

  Guerrillas with small arms in developing countries have repelled the US military repeatedly over the past half century. More importantly, if you don’t think a combination of small arms and low cost homemade munitions are effective against a modern military you haven’t been paying attention to the war in Ukraine at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair statement.

  I don’t think we are there yet. It will be far better for our country if our problems can be solved by diplomatic and political means, and we are far from running out of levers to pull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The founding fathers have written at length on their reasoning for including the right to bear arms in the constitution. It is very clear that they believed in the people’s ability to resist and overthrow the government if needed.

  After all, this was a group who escaped the grip of the monarchy through force of arms. It’s odd to think that they didn’t see value in the ability of the people to do the same, especially when they repeatedly wrote about it in period.

  However, all that being said, I agree with your sentiment that leftists should be arming themselves. Just because the 2nd amendment has almost completely lost it’s original intent or meaning, doesn’t mean we can’t take advantage of the fact that it exists with tons of legal precedent to strap up in preparation for what might come next. Things are unlikely to get better from here, and if things get worse you will be glad you have a firearm for protection.

  Also this here is kind of the point. The original intent is not important; many people believe in the modern era that an armed citizenry is important as a last ditch balancing force to government overreach. We are all better off if left leaning people arm themselves instead of using pro-gun arguments as some sort of self-righteous gotcha against the right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe it’s fundamentally important to that we that right to an equalizing force.

  Acting like we are going to directly fight a tank with an AR-15 is either a straw man or just frankly ignorant. The US military has repeatedly been repelled by guerrilla forces with small arms, and if you have been paying any attention at all in Ukraine you will see what can be done with very little technology in terms of drones etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If we ever have to exercise the right to bear arms, it will be a dark day indeed. No reasonable person wants that. We have many methods if recourse before that even enters the conversation IMO.

  However, there can eventually come a time where resistance is appropriate. Hitler never would have taken complete control of the country, exterminated so many Jews, and started Europe on the path to a world war if the Germans were armed and actively resisting his rule.

  It seems self evident that the German people would been better off resisting Nazi rule than allowing the death camps and WW2 to come to fruition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still the purpose of the second amendment, for people to own guns to defend themselves and others against tyranny

  You can’t expect everyone to agree with you ideologically, and obviously they won’t rise up against a government they agree with. Conservatives don’t see the current administration as tyrannical, so there is no conflict for them between the ideals of the second amendment and their actions.

  However, you can absolutely choose to exercise your second amendment rights.

  As a gun owning liberal, I’m tired of my peers acting like the second amendment is some conservative agenda. The right to firearm ownership is an eminently liberal ideal. More liberals and leftists should own guns— the second amendment is more important now than ever before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The window for a convincing UFO video has closed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a very reasonable explanation for this: If we are a topic of research for them, they could have simply stopped studying us in the same way

  Take our own science for example. We pull out of studies when the funding dries up. Maybe the aliens’ government grant ran out. Or, perhaps they have a policy of avoiding interference with the subjects. They could have changed methodology in response to the threat of high resolution recording equipment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The window for a convincing UFO video has closed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there is a reason why plane spotters use 400+mm lenses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you never heard of tunes?

  Any idiot can make substantial software changes to almost any modern car with easily available inexpensive hardware. Look up Cobb, ECUtek, openflashtablet, Hondata, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK IT UP⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the idea of bio hacking. Too bad the things they do have such poor risk to utility ratio 😂

  When do I get my cyborg legs? That’s what I wanna know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it really is sad, we have so many more uses for it

  Every atom of fluoride going into our water is another atom that can’t go into chlorine trifluoride production. Putting it into the water is a huge sacrifice we make for the health of society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're called leaves for a reason.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends where you live. I am in Denver and only use the car a few times a week, mostly during ski season.

  The rest of the time I walk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are gas turbine generators that directly use shaft power to generate electricity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that you shouldn’t base your decisions on whether or not you can say you are “vegan”. You should base your decisions on your own sense of ethics.

  Whether or not beekeeping harms bees is a matter of debate. If a person believes honey is ethical, that’s their decision. Who gives a fuck if it meet someone else’s standard for a particular label?