By Conn Williamson
It all started out with the facets of Liberal government attempting to restrict not just the Second Amendment, but the First Amendment as well.
The precedent setting Defense Distributed legal suit against the Federal government want to be fiasco ended up with a satisfactory settlement where inventor Cody Wilson and his Liberator pistol produced through high tech equipment and means was allowed to coexist within the context of the Republic. However, the afterglow of the court victory for gun rights and free speech advocates has faced another legal challenge, as politicians in the state of New York are attempting to tarnish the decision by a district court permitting the online distribution of 3D firearm design templates.
Following the lead of now Washington Governor Bob Ferguson, New York Governor Kathy Hochul of the empire state and staff are attempting to throw a virtual monkey wrench into the machine of innovation as a proposed law would require 3D printing devices to have “safety” measures to block end users from printing gun parts which is quite and involved process. Essentially, the nanny/parental controls on the printers combined with smart software and Artificial Intelligence (AI) would allegedly make it impossible to manufacturer firearms components on their devices through electronic blockades. However, what is lost in the maniacal shuffle of political posturing is that any locks on 3D printers are easily broken by experienced users much like those disabling speed governors and factory settings and safety mechanisms on E-bikes circumvented and speeds of 40 miles per hour achievable. The sky is the limit for disdain and procedural confusion as all of the rules are being broken.
Free speech and gun rights lost in the malaise of ideological radicalism?
While the token gesture of Hochul’s draconian agenda to disarm law-abiding citizens ultimately originates and emanates with the threat of tax-payer funding gun control from a digital level, society still has to deal with the perpetuation of technology and issues that have not been argued within the confines of the legal system, where the proverbial hotel of sensibility is unable to accommodate guests that exercise fundamental liberties.
In these confusing times we only have each other on the side of patriots and Americans. To print or not to print remains in the realm of some logical or illogical imperative that predates the Guggenheim press of expressionism, and legally possessing a firearm is the basis to battle extremists attempting to stifle free will.
What this illustrates that states should not have laws that draft or implement laws that egregiously ignore the Constitution for the sake of partisan politics.
