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The understandable difference being that a gun has but one purpose: Kill people.

Whereas everything else I have mentioned, including 3d printers are multi-purpose. Not intended to kill, but to serve multiple roles.

Though, it is a good point that few devices could be cobbled together to make infinite guns so long as you had material. So I am not saying it isn’t a class of it’s own, just where does the logic end with that point?

Is it only legal for a company to print guns? How does a license alone protect people? I don’t think that is something I could answer.

I think some people would say the ability to print a gun is more deadly then a knife.

But I kind of agree with you.

If we start licensing people to own stuff that has the potential to do harm, then eventually you are going to run into a never ending list of household items and laws of natural physics:

• Bleach
• Vinegar
• Salt
• Sugar
• Chlorine
• Gas
• Natural gas
• Methane
• Fertilizers
• Electricity
• Paper
• Fire
• Propane
• Etc.

Opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one.

I imagine you look into someone’s life deep enough, there is eventually something you are going to disagree ethically about.

I think that is why it is important to have the conversation, rather then pretend the issue doesn’t exist. Because that is what Israel has been doing for 20 years. It is also why the people of Israel and Palestine have bodies in the streets.

This is 20 years of inaction boiling over into one single event. We either learn the lesson, or continue in ignorance.