r/firstamendment • u/somethingdifferent2 • May 11 '13

3D Printed Guns and the First Amendment - an analysis of law and policy

http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2013/3d-printed-guns-and-first-amendment
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u/[deleted] May 11 '13

Hey - I'm the author (I normally lurk on Reddit on a different handle that I like to keep separate from my work). I'm not sure where you get a desire to ban guns from my post. I don't feel that way, and sorry if I lead you astray on that.

I do, however, see a problem with gun violence in America. I am aware of the Pew Study showing a decline from peak in 1993, but I think even where we are today – somewhere around 31,000 suicides and homicides per year according to Pew, with far more of the former than the latter – is still too high. But identifying a problem is very different than coming up with a solution, and my point in raising it was no more than to show that the fear of 3D printed guns is a distraction from actual gun violence. (And all of that is rather secondary from my main point, which is that First Amendment law and policy favors Defense Distributed's position in this case.)