|
|
Yeah, someone someday is going to be killed by a printed gun. All those things you listed will probably happen someday. It's regrettable, but what's you point??
Try is the keyword. The whole point of what this guy is doing is to show the futility of trying to stop it. Sure people will probably die but how can it be stopped? You can't stop home made guns anymore than you can stop pressure cookers filled with fireworks.
And your comment is typical of those who fail to grasp the negative consequences of trying and failing to make the world a safe utopia. Medical testing is a great example. If I'm dying of a terminal disease I want to be able to take experimental drugs. Sure I might have an averse reaction and die a horrific death but it should be my choice to take that risk. The decades of testing drugs must go through before anyone is allowed to take them is a travesty.
A guy with a rifle is not a threat to any modern Army.
Yeah, cause we haven't lost any troops to guys with rifles in Iraq or Afghanistan.
What they fear are roadside bombs, IEDs, and similar devices.
So explosives should be legal?
...how long before people are told it's safe to go about their business as usual even though there's a live bomb? How long before people are told it's safe to go about their business even though there's a riot going on? How long before people are told it's safe to go about their business as usual even though there's an imminent air raid? And the worst part is, no one will even question it. We'll welcome it with open arms and claim we don't mind not being warned about danger, because "freedom" is at stake and we have to preserve it.
Since when do people need the government to tell them whether it's safe to go outside or not? In any of those examples people can decide for themselves whether it's safe or not. Do you really need a bureaucrat or a committee of bureaucrats to make the decision for you?
Really: we don't need to ban activities; we need to have enforced consequences for doing dangerous combinations of things.
We already do, it's called natural selection.
Try North Korea: you'll get all the government you want and a well regulated market too
No, no, no. If it's not a serious crime it just means you're not beating them hard enough!
Going rate on eBay was $5 a lb last I checked.
Japan also has a suicide rate 2-3x times higher than the US. It's a different culture, if you gave everyone in the US a katana I doubt we'd have a seppuku epidemic.
A big part of our high murder rate is the drug war. You can try and take away everything besides rocks and pointy sticks (and fail miserably) but the drug dealers will keep killing each other. Nothing besides complete legalization is going to end it.
The whole issue of Belize wanting McAfee from the start was a farce; he didn't pay his protection money and they wanted to hurt/kill him. End of story.
The proof of this will to be seen in nothing whatsoever happening to McAfee on his return to the U.S. They have no proof against him and can't request to extradite someone just because he made them look like fools.
The whole story is a cautionary tale about living in places where corruption of the government is rampant.
If corrupt Belize government officials are behind this couldn't they just, you know, fake some evidence? Witnesses, forensics, etc.
You're right I wasn't thinking about 99 cent transactions, I was thinking about Office which I assume costs well over 99 cents.
Guillotine, n.: A French chopping center.