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JodyChunder
2013 Jan 15, 1:52pm
Can 3D printers print bullets?
You could knock some together in your garage easily enough. Need to mix up some cordite -- nitro, guncotton, and petroleum jelly. You could even cast the brasses yourself.
deepcgi
2013 Jan 15, 2:14pm
Or a South American country could just invite and legally allow weapons production factories which would receive the full support of the pro-gun lobby who wouldn't have ordinarily - if the US weren't being hostile to gun ownership at the time. We can't control drug trafficking, why would gun trafficking WITH popular support be more easily controlled.
Venezuela makes another mint.
Good point, all these spree killers have all been living at home and on some sort of meds. But at the same time, I bet a lot more crime is committed by others. Spree killers there is only a handful I can think of.
Drug dealers / gang bangers go on a shooting spree everyday in big cities...
same people same gang infested corner of the city.. same time every day...
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I'm completely anti gun, but I've concluded that in the long run, gun control can't work.
The reason is 3d printers. I've now seen two very good proposals for how guns can be printed, and shells to go with it (ammo making still requires manual work to fill the shells)
Given that reality, I expect gun control to be about as successful as piracy control.
I think we should instead focus on making people just not want guns. Think about the PSA from childhood telling us not to smoke. Now my generation doesn't smoke.
I have zero desire to own a gun and even less to shoot somebody with one. If we could raise a generation to not want to use guns, maybe we could prevent them from killing each other. The nut jobs who are afraid of the government or just like to shoot things would still print their guns and shoot them, but most people wouldn't.
I was raised around violent movies and video games, but never saw a gun in person other than police officers until I was an adult. As a result, I only associated guns with murder and war. Maybe we could replicate that experience to kids now and keep them from viewing guns as a tool that was used for solving every day conflict.