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Problem: Felons are ignoring the law. Solution: write another law. Result: politicians pat themselves on the back for doing something, non-felons can no longe
by pope_meat 5y ago
Problem: Felons are ignoring the law.
Solution: write another law.
Result: politicians pat themselves on the back for doing something, non-felons can no longer build DIY firearms, felons continue to ignore the law.
Sigh.
With the amount of uppers that are in the wild, and the fact that a lower can be made from either an 80% part, or 3D printed from scratch by pretty much anyone with two working hands means trying to stop this is like pissing in to a hurricane.
Google FGC-9. Even the barrel can be made at home, rifling and everything, ivanthetroll has videos/files online documenting the process. If Henry Colt could produce a firearm using 100 year old tools and technologies, it's comical to think you can stop people doing the same using 2021 technology.
Perhaps it's time to consider bringing up the poorest members of society out of the abject poverty, that will do a whole lot more to reduce gun violence than passing even more ineffective gun control laws.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoBut what about the upper class violent drug criminals?
- speedybird 5y agoThey can afford better guns.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoAnd after we bring the poorest members of society out of abject poverty, they too can afford better guns!
- rpmisms 5y agoThis but unironically.
- speedybird 5y agoTBQH, even poor people in America can afford better guns from a store than homemade guns. The main exception to this is people who aren't permitted to buy guns. Wikipedia says the infamous FGC-9 costs "less than $400" to make if you already have the printer. You can easily buy a better gun cheaper than that in just about any gunstore.
- topspin 5y agoThey aren't running around with homemade guns.
- quickthrower2 5y agoDecriminalise drugs. Money for addicts to get get help. Starve the money from the drug trade.
- ac29 5y ago"Not everyone follows laws, so why bother having them" is a pretty bad argument. You're right that pretty much no law can be 100% effective, but if you want to reduce gun violence, reducing the number of legal firearms is certainly one of the ways to go about it.