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People can do very scary things with a knife, a car, or petrol+matches. We don't try to regulate those things out of existence like we do with new technology (
by bluescrn 7mo ago
People can do very scary things with a knife, a car, or petrol+matches.
We don't try to regulate those things out of existence like we do with new technology (drones and now 3D printers)
Kind of ridiculous that a country with more guns than people and 45k firearms deaths per year wants to regulate 3D printed plastic. Yet collecting and shooting actual guns is still an acceptable hobby in many states.
- jacquesm 7mo agoOh, I totally agree. I always see this as evidence that the terrorism threat is overblown, if it were really as large as we are led to believe the number of successful attacks would be far higher than it is.
- tpmoney 7mo agoThe same states that want to regulate 3d printers and force you to register them and install only software that will prevent you from printing anything that even looks like a gun part are also the same states that have been trying (or succeeding) in enforcing those same sorts of broad and dubious regulations on firearms too. When you think of states whose legislatures think collecting and shooting guns is an acceptable hobby, California and New York don’t exactly top the list.
- ricardobeat 7mo agoCan a rocket be used to cut your food, take you to the supermarket or power your car? I'm completely against regulation of any sorts on 3D printing, but you have to admit there is a huge difference in purpose there.
- jacquesm 7mo ago3D printers have absolutely no clue about what it is that they are printing. They just receive X, Y and Z coordinates, temperature settings and extruder feed rates. Just like an injection molding machine doesn't care about what the shape of the mold is. Just like a lathe doesn't have any restrictions on what you can make as long as it fits the chuck and the tooling.