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Not saying this ban is a great idea... ...but there are plenty of useful things that we ban the general public from having access to. Opium poppies. Automati
by rgmerk 3y ago
Not saying this ban is a great idea...
...but there are plenty of useful things that we ban the general public from having access to.
Opium poppies. Automatic weapons. Gas centrifuges.
In fact, if you start publishing detailed designs for the last one you're likely to have people in suits who only go by first names visiting you in pretty short order.
- zzzzzzzzzz10 3y agoIn what way are automatic weapons generally useful?
- beau_g 3y agoMostly suppressive fire, but more generally, providing a steady stream of small projectiles
- moomoo11 3y agoSo you can type this comment with complete safety while being protected by tax dollars
- rgmerk 3y agoIf you're fighting a war, automatic weapons are a pretty much essential tool for doing so effectively. Yeah, war is bad. Sometimes the alternatives are worse.
- CamperBob2 3y agoAsk a Ukrainian.
- mirekrusin 3y agoEquivalent would be to ban not "opium poppies" but "chemistry", not "automatic weapons" but "automatic machines" etc. It's more like trying to ban web or emails in one country because somebody can create harmful website or send harmful emails. Sooner or later we will have to look at information through AI lenses. Before seeing anything it'll go through filtering and transformation to weed out spam, misinformation and do fact checks etc. You can't build this defense future with crippled law.