The nutball militia/sovereign citizen movement - what percentage of American gunowners belong, and have armed camps? (Hint, it's about 0%. I rounded down from 0.038%, and I didn't sift for the "have armed camp" requirement) And of those, how many of them are capable of any effective action? Let's round down to 0% again, especially since the data indicates that about 20% of their membership are FBI folks keeping an eye on things...Originally Posted by bunnys
Is it reasonable to develop public policy that restricts and punishes the actions of 99.nn% of polite, law-abiding, contributing citizens in order to attempt to influence the actions of a miniscule minority? A minority that won't bother obeying any of these sorts of laws anyways? A minority that could simply produce what they want in their own workshops trivially?
I mean, heck, I have a machine shop here, and I could make just about anything I want in an afternoon or two. If I dropped ~$5k on some nice 3D printing technology, I could sit back and let my iPad do all the work even. If I were ambitious, I could build the 3D printer myself for a few hundred dollars. But that's overkill, you can make an AR-15 receiver out of a block of decent hardwood or plywood. Or an AK-47 receiver out of an old shovel, using only simple hand tools. Good thing I'm a happy member of society, eh?
And if I weren't, given my extensive engineering background, I wouldn't worry too much about me using a gun... You better start registering people with engineering and science degrees.
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