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TOPDAWG
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Re: Feds ban 3D printable gun - what century are they living in?

well the feds are dumb plans are not illegal. Exp if I drew a gun you can't ban the damn drawing of the thing least far as I know. So they can try and throw their weight around and kill more rights but really I can look up bomb plans online and everything else so it's not illegal no matter how much they hate it.

From what I'm reading the printer the guy used is like 20,000 bucks shit people could buy tons of real guns for that price.

The government makes me laugh they all be like the terrorist are trying to take away our rights so we'll take away those rights ourselves so the terrorist can't take away those rights. Man the terrorists kicked the US ass so bad it's not funny they already won.

Man it's simply pathetic what the US has turned into and the fact the people let it happen and won't do shit about it.
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said by TOPDAWG:


From what I'm reading the printer the guy used is like 20,000 bucks shit people could buy tons of real guns for that price.

I think laser printers were somewhere around that price when they first came out, and now they're dirt cheap. I don't know if there's a reason why 3D printers would not follow that same pattern.
said by TOPDAWG:


The government makes me laugh they all be like the terrorist are trying to take away our rights so we'll take away those rights ourselves so the terrorist can't take away those rights. Man the terrorists kicked the US ass so bad it's not funny they already won.

Man it's simply pathetic what the US has turned into and the fact the people let it happen and won't do shit about it.

I agree that it's ridiculous. I think one reason for the runaway growth of this police state is that a lot of companies are lobbying heavily for lucrative contracts in the security-related field. Surveillance systems, red light ticket-writing cameras, "drones" in the air watching our every move (or worse!) and the for-profit prison industry making sure that drug laws won't ever get relaxed. Though we may soon reach a point in which there is little difference between life inside prison and life outside prison.
said by sandman_1:

It is all in the name of keeping us "safe", which is utter BS. Over the past 14 years, our freedoms have been eroding away at an unprecedented rate. People don't seem to care either. I work in retail (BestBuy) and see all kinds of people and 99% of them are more concerned with getting their next "fix", i.e. what can I buy next so I can be a good consumer like they want me to be. My first Black Friday, last year, was a real eye opener and seriously diminished my hope for humanity and for this country. Everyone is so concerned with their own world and oblivious to the big picture. As long as something doesn't rock their world, they don't care. Most Americans are so complacent that nothing of any note will ever be done about anything.

Perhaps as bad as the eroding freedoms in the last 14 years has been the ever-widening income disparity over the last 40 years, a trend which shows no sign of ending.

Imagine if Best Buy had been around 50 years ago. Everything in the store would have been American made, the company would have been unionized (or at least paying union-scale wages) with employees making a good income. It's a shame that few shoppers today realize that their "can't live without it" iPhones are made in a distant country with no freedom or right to vote, by factory employees getting starvation wages working ungodly hours in miserable conditions while being treated no better than slaves.

And just imagine living at the factory compound in a company dorm and being woken up by your boss in the middle of the night and ordered to the assembly line because the company just got a rush order that can't wait until the morning. It's no wonder suicides are so common among Chinese factory workers. (though unlike US factory workers, they at least have jobs)

I have just about lost hope that anything in this decaying economic system will ever change because the people at the top are profiting handsomely just the way it is, while most of the other 99% are either complacent or deceived into supporting it against their own interests.