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Good point - I guess somehow there has to be a way to print the bullets, too... Not that I am eager for the time when everybody can print themselves a gun at h
by Tichy 14y ago
Good point - I guess somehow there has to be a way to print the bullets, too...
Not that I am eager for the time when everybody can print themselves a gun at home. But I guess it will happen.
Also, I have no idea how to find such a black market. Perhaps asking on Twitter would work? Otherwise I can only think of silk road, the BitCoin market. Never checked it out as I don't do drugs, but perhaps they also do guns?
Not that I want a gun atm, just curious out of principle.
Actually I would like to have a gun in case there is some kind of apocalypse. But I don't want to have a gun around (I think statistics say that you are much more likely to be killed by a gun if you have a gun). There should be some way to hide it somewhere safe :-/
- sbierwagen 14y agoYes, I encourage you to ask where you can illegally purchase a firearm on Twitter. That will be extremely useful, at the trial.
- ta12121 14y agoI think statistics say that you are much more likely to be killed by a gun if you have a gun Statistics from gun-control advocates, for what it's worth.
- ktizo 14y agoI find it hardly likely that it would be lower given you would have to factor in accidental death, suicide, murders within gun owning families, etc, and on the other side there are just the situations where owning a gun actually stopped you being shot, which are obviously much much less and often end up with the other gun owner shot, so effectively reducing that number still further. It seems fairly obvious that proximity to a deadly item increases the chance of being killed by it.
- clarkm 14y agoSurely those who frequently encounter dangerous situations or routinely feel that their safety is at risk are much more likely to own or carry a gun (e.g. retail business owners). I'd wager that this self-selection bias skews the statistic significantly.
- ktizo 14y agoGuns are pointless defensively for anything barring a very narrow range of situations. If you are really that worried, get a big stick, it is far more likely to be useful and you aren't going to get arrested, shot, or accidentally blow off bits of yours or other people's anatomy. Better yet, cheer up and stop worrying about the possibility of some kind of apocalypse, and if it does happen, and you have a 3d printer and a load of material, may I suggest you start with water filters and simple pumps rather than weaponry.
- Tichy 14y agoGood point :-) I didn't actually think "I need a 3d printer so that I could make a gun". If I was seriously worried, I'd try to get a gun the official way. Not saying I am not worried, but I don't seem to get round to building that emergency package.
- saalweachter 14y agoThe problem with serious stockpiling is that you make yourself a target for anyone who didn't, if the worst actually happened. A stockpile of weapons might help protect you, but if you're sitting on years and years of food and survival equipment in a wasteland of thousands of starving and desperate people, chances are most of your weapons will just be one more thing looted from your corpse after a less well prepared and more desperate person gets lucky. That's why you need to stockpile something which will be extremely valuable after an apocalypse, but not worth killing you over. Something which is cheap now, but that most people with a little extra food stockpiled might be willing to trade you for. Something you need and will use daily anyway: toilet paper. Plus, any accidental death resulting from your toilet paper stockpile is probably going to be hilarious .
- dwiel 14y agoOr something valuable that clearly requires your personal knowledge to operate. Like a fancy radio.
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