The Glorious Futility of “Technology-Proof” LawAh yes, technology-based laws. The shining dream of bureaucrats everywhere. Because clearly, if you just write the right words on a piece of paper, the laws of physics and human ingenuity will bow in reverence.
Let’s pretend for a moment that we’ve achieved the impossible utopia: no one can legally make, sell, or even touch a firearm. Victory, right? Crime solved! Cue the triumphant music!
Except, oops, anyone with a few thousand dollars and an internet connection can buy a CNC machine, click a few buttons, and suddenly a shiny new handgun appears like magic. CNC machines, those cold, efficient robots that carve and fabricate with eerie precision, do not care about your laws. They do not care about politics. They just do what they are programmed to do, often better than the humans who write the legislation. Imagine the radical task of rounding up the 400 million guns that are already in America’s Homes.
And if CNCs sound too “high-tech,” don’t worry. There are 3D printers that can literally spit out guns in your living room while you binge YouTube tutorials on how to do it. You can even skip the serial numbers entirely, because nothing says “law-abiding citizen” like an untraceable ghost gun made next to your coffee maker.
But sure, let’s keep pretending that outlawing guns means the bad guys suddenly develop a conscience and take up yoga instead. Brilliant plan.
If we are really aiming for a world where only criminals are armed, the solution is simple: make more gun laws. Because clearly, the people willing to rob, assault, and murder will definitely stop at the line that says “no firearms allowed.”
Meanwhile, every other law-abiding citizen, trained, responsible, and aware, gets left defenseless. You have seen the movie: the unarmed citizen becomes the victim while the criminal walks off into the darkness. But let’s tweak the script. Give that same citizen a firearm and a touch of training, and suddenly the ending looks very different.
Criminals may be ruthless, but brave? Not exactly. They do not like high risk, and nothing says “high risk” like an armed, prepared citizen.
So yes, let’s keep letting fear-fueled politicians write laws to “protect” us from ourselves. After all, history has shown time and time again that when governments stop fearing the people, the people have everything to fear.
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