Topic: What's your opinion of gun control? - page 100. (Read 450471 times)

IMO, people should be given the choice whether whey want to own a fire-arm or not. In places like Texas, where home invasions are very common, the possession of a fire-arm can save many lives. However, the government should make it impossible for people with a criminal record, and those with mental issues from obtaining fire-arms.

I think that gun is best to allow to all countries but now i think that Europe need to have frree right to have weapon because or pupils from wild asia and africa.

I believe that weapons should not be available for sale. It is bad when it may even buy children. The government should prohibit the free carrying of weapons

I love when criminals get shot by people protecting themselves. Like that restaurant manager this week, killed one of three robbers. So I'm all for guns, the problem is that for every story like that, there are more people who kill someone accidentally, or because of a fit or rage that would have just simply passed by. Other than that, we still need it for those who did end up protecting themselves.

I love when criminals get shot by people protecting themselves. Like that restaurant manager this week, killed one of three robbers. So I'm all for guns, the problem is that for every story like that, there are more people who kill someone accidentally, or because of a fit or rage that would have just simply passed by. Other than that, we still need it for those who did end up protecting themselves.

The first two protections in the U.S. Bill of Rights guarantee freedom of speech and a right to bear arms, respectively. But what about when those collide?

The founders who wrote it likely never imagined a world where that freedom of speech would apply to electronically encoded files on computers, nor could they have pictured a day when those same files could be used to tell a machine to print, on demand, a pistol. (The Founders also, likely, didn't foresee militia systems falling out of use).

Yet we now live in a world where the files to print a gun exist, and people have indeed printed guns. Is this an activity the constitution protects?

Decidedly no, according to a ruling handed down earlier this week from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The case, Defense Distributed v. United States Department of State, goes back to the creation of the first 3D printing of a gun, by the activist group Defense Distributed, in May, 2013.

The Liberator pistol is not, by any metric, a good gun.

The original design is single-shot, and while almost all of the gun is printed, it still uses a cheap nail as a firing pin.

As part of the broader aim of a gun that exists outside government control, Defense Distributed made the plans for the gun available online. That's when they ran into trouble with the State Department, which told Defense Distributed to take down the gun plans.

The State Department was the federal agency that acted in this case, and not the more obvious Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), because by the nature of the internet, the 3D-printed gun files can cross international borders. The State Department seized on this fact to say that transferring technical data like this counted as an export.

Shortly afterwards, Defense Distributed took down the files and then reached out to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to see if they could help with this as a free speech fight.

Last December, the EFF filed a brief in support of Defense Distributed, arguing that the State Department's enforcement of arms regulations this broadly was in fact a threat to free speech.

So is hosting files for printing a gun protected under the 1st Amendment? Not if there's national security at stake, ruled the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ordinarily, of course, the protection of constitutional rights would be the highest public interest at issue in a case. That is not necessarily true here, however, because the State Department has asserted a very strong public interest in national defense and national security. Indeed, the State Department's stated interest in preventing foreign nationals—including all manner of enemies of this country—from obtaining technical data on how to produce weapons and weapon parts is not merely tangentially related to national defense and national security; it lies squarely within that interest.

That's weird as heck! The ruling goes on to note that "The fact that national security might be permanently harmed while Plaintiffs-Appellants' constitutional rights might be temporarily harmed strongly supports our conclusion that the district court did not abuse its discretion in weighing the balance in favor of national defense and national security."

As Ars Technica notes, the opinion of the dissenting judge finds instead a complete lack of concern for free speech from the State Department, is using such a broad interpretation of the law to stop the sharing of these specific files online.

Unless Defense Distributed appeals the ruling, it looks like files for printing guns aren't protected by both the 1st and 2nd Amendments, but are instead protected by neither.

Gun must control and license

its not rocket science, controlling guns has worked in every country that has applied it with zero negative effects... whats the reason Americans don't want to do this exactly?

its not rocket science, controlling guns has worked in every country that has applied it with zero negative effects... whats the reason Americans don't want to do this exactly?

The government should be stern in acting this law.  People whom they have arrested possessing gun without a license should be jailed and rip off with the right to possess for his entire life.  Most users whose guns were not licensed were usually criminals and have evil plans.

its not rocket science, controlling guns has worked in every country that has applied it with zero negative effects... whats the reason Americans don't want to do this exactly?

The people don't need guns for that, that is an unfeasible goal. Be realistic, guns are only for self protection, hunting and fun. The US is one of the biggest military powers in the world. You cannot take down the biggest military power with a few toy guns. The American civil war pretty much showed that.