NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers, Attempts to Target Ghost Guns

Or the legislature should stop trampling on our rights.

Your rights end where my nose begins, and unrestricted gun access impedes the rights of others to live.

The founding fathers built that amendment in a time whith very different technology from today. Nowadays a gun can and frequently does mow down an entire room of innocent people/children.

If you care about the lives of your children you would do something to bring our death rates in line with the low rates of Europe. We have an almost ten times higher firearm death rate than European countries. The solution is not more unfettered gun access.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

https://www.statista.com/chart/27724/gun-deaths-in-europe/

yet it’s probably the most violated right.

The right to vote would like a word.

It's the pro-gun community that has been pushing the "gun control is pointless because you can just 3D print a gun" lie in the first place.

But honestly, fuck your right. Just because something is an amendment, doesn't mean it's moral -- and any right that comes at the expense of countless other lives is definitely immoral.

What's in it for us to even let you keep it? You've made crime worse, you maximise the damage domestic terrorists can do and enthusiastically voted for the tyrants you swore you'd protect us from.

Half of you wouldn't even wear a mask in a pandemic, but we're supposed to believe you'll be the saviour of democracy?

Well one day, that democracy is going to take away your grossly permissive access to guns and you're going to be left with 3 choices.

You could meekly hand over your guns, admitting that all your promises were actually just fantasies and bravado after all.

You could comply with the new licensing and safety laws, something you could have agreed to 25 years and thousands of murders ago.

Or you could follow through on your threats to become a domestic terrorist and prove once and for all that your guns always mattered to you more than your country, or it's citizens, or it's democracy.

I'd prefer the first two but I'm not even sure we'd notice the third since 80% of mass shooters are already legal gun owners anyway.

Still, at least it would be the biggest enablers of gun violence dying to gun violence, rather than score of innocent and oppressed people.