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California’s 3D Printer Law Would Criminalize Open Source, Enshittify The 3D Printing Space
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To be fair, as a USain myself, that if you had to deal with the sheer military capabilities of our POLICE forces (looking at you NYPD and LAPD) you'd wanna be armed too...
It sucks, but when badged thugs get to rock LAVs I'm at least stocking some green tip....
It's ironic though since this is indeed a self-reinforcing cycle as well. The easier it is to get guns for the public the more the police is being armed, and at the end of the day it's the state who'd win this arms race. The kind of "moral collapse" (not sure if the term is correct) necessary to overthrow an oppressive government can't be gained with bullets, those merely reinforce whatever state your society currently is in or moves towards. I totally understand that you feel e.g. enabled, stronger, more independent etc. when holding a firearm, especially backed by US gun culture. Unfortunately the main thing firearms and the idea of them being a solution to something creates is pointless violence, which the US suffers greatly from for… well, forever.
And yet, governments fall to armed rebellion even yet today.