It's funny the article should mention Austin, since there was just a mass stabbing there ( https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/05/01/multiple-people-stab

It's funny the article should mention Austin, since there was just a mass stabbing there ( https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/05/01/multiple-people-stabbed-ut-austin-campus https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/05/01/multiple-pe... ). Rifles are on the order of 20% as likely to be used to commit a murder as knives ( https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2009-2013.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-... ). ~ Regulating what people can build in their own homes is not a good idea, nor is saying "this set of machine blueprints is legal to possess, while this other is not". The hacking community has known this for a long time ( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html ).