Gun Activist Who Put 3D Blueprints Online Shrugs Off Potential Murders

[appalachiablue]

Source: Think Progress

Cody Wilson says "We should expect and have a mature attitude that bad things can happen." Josh Israel, Aug 5, 2018, 11:33 am

Cody Wilson, the 25-year-old radical libertarian whose Defense Distributed has posted online blueprints for 3D-printed guns and has fought in court for the legal right to do so, knows that his actions may lead to gun violence and murders. But, he explained on Fox News Sunday, this is why we have a Second Amendment.

Asked by host Chris Wallace on Sunday morning about the foreseeable impact of his efforts, Wilson showed no concern for the deaths he could enable.

“I literally believe in the Second Amendment, to the point that it’s alright and it should be expected that there will be social costs for protecting a right like this,” he answered. “Why is the people’s right to keep and bear arms on the Bill of Rights? Why is it even protected? Because we know that there are downsides and that there are consequences to allowing free people to own the means of self defense. Of course we should expect and have a mature attitude that bad things can happen."

Wallace pointed out Congress has enacted laws to prevent certain people from having guns, including convicted felons, and to require serial numbers to make it possible to trace weapons. By making it easy for anyone with access to a 3D printer to make a plastic gun, criminals who are not able to legally purchase or own guns could have yet another way to circumvent criminal background checks.

Wilson dismissed this argument...More...

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/gun-activist-who-put-3d-blueprints-online-shrugs-off-potential-murders-de4845e7df9e/

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[Archae]

1. Punk.

[appalachiablue]

2. In an unstable society, this sh*t is fast growing and toxic.

25 yr. old brain speaking on "maturity" and gunz...

[Hoyt]

3. Typical gunner. Their irrational need for gunz trumps everyone else.

[YOHABLO]

4. That's right the 2nd Amend. clearly states: 3D printed guns will not be prohibited.

[keithbvadu2]

5. To the gun industry, dead children are merely collateral damage/acceptable losses for profits and po

NRA supporters would rather have dead children than gun control.

To the gun industry, dead children are merely collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donations.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html

Joe The Plumber: ‘Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump My Constitutional Rights’ To Have Guns

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. I absolutely loathe libertarians.

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Wonder how he'll like fending off the law suits

his publishing of these blue prints will bring after the first casualty?

[snort]

8. Twerp

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. Asshole says: "Why is the people's right to keep and bear arms on the Bill of Rights?"

Because the Second Amendment begins, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..."

From Huffington Post:

The purpose of the Second Amendment was to prevent the new Federal Government established in 1789 from disarming the state militias and replacing them with a Federal standing army. It was a concern that was relevant perhaps for a few years around the birth of the country. It is irrelevant today. Americans do not rely on state militias in 2012 for our freedom from the federal government.
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The Second Amendment is a relic of the founding era more than two centuries ago. Its purpose is long past. As Justice John Paul Stevens argues persuasively, the amendment should not block the ability of society to keep itself safe through gun control legislation. That was never its intent. This amendment was about militias in the 1790s, and the fear of the anti-federalists of a federal army. Since that issue is long moot, we need not be governed in our national life by doctrines on now-extinct militias from the 18th century.

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Like I said, Cody Wilson a gun nut sociopath who is seeking his 15 minutes of fame.

[hunter]

10. I don't need a 3D printer to make a crappy gun that will blow my fingers off.

All the fourteen year old gangsters in my community know where to get a high quality real gun.

As much as I'd take the second amendment out of the Constitution, roll it up in dog shit, and stuff it up the ass of my least favorite gun fetishist, I don't think printed guns are much of an issue.

Real guns are just too damned easy.

Any asshole can buy a real gun, and many assholes do.

[iluvtennis]

11. They say the eyes are the window to the soul...and his eyes tell me he is hollow and uncaring.

[SergeStorms]

12. I saw that ass clown on TV yesterday.

He's nothing but an attention whore who's looking to get a lot of publicity and a job with the NRA or some other fascist organization. He has a very high opinion of himself (totally undeserved) for doing nothing more than being a complete jerk.

Fuck him and the 3D printed horse he rode in on.

[DRoseDARs]

13. It would be a terrible shame if he was gunned down with an untraceable 3D-printed gun.

I'm sorry, did I say was? I meant wasn't.

[rpannier]

16. T'would be a tragedy

And I would be among the first to send my thoughts and prayers out to his family

[sakabatou]

14. "I don't care if I'm an accessory to murder."

[Pachamama]

15. Cognitive Dissonance is a pretty powerful thing

Incredible the disconnect this man has to the connection of his actions and the consequences and their meaning...

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Political wisdom rests not in 25 year olds

[MicaelS]

24. Bullshit.

Age has nothing to do with it, he's just a callous selfish jerk.

Look at the Stoneman students, they can't even vote. Are they dumb?

[bucolic_frolic]

27. I do not post bullshit, you are the one posting bullshit. Age has everything to do with it

because with age comes wisdom, balanced by decades of experience, of realizing the ebb and flow of ideas, and how those consequences play out over long periods of time. Stoneman students have no such experience because they are not that old. They may be right about what they are doing, they may be on the right side of history, but they do not have wisdom.

You are quick to judge by labeling my post Bullshit. I resent that. It is self-righteous and callous, and insulting. No I don't think they are dumb, but I do think you are.

[3Hotdogs]

18. Reminds me of Pharma Bro.

[Locrian]

19. what a horrible isolated little life he has

Tunnel vision on guns guns guns..... his "bread of life"

That's the thing with these wingnut libertarians: they believe they are completely independent of society, and are the only thing that matters. What a horrible way to live life - stuck inside a black cloud of isolation

[paleotn]

20. proto-typical libertarian....

...sociopaths who care for nothing and no one but themselves. They'd sell their mothers, it it were profitable.

[CousinIT]

21. Now you know what a sociopath looks & sounds like. n/t

[turbinetree]

22. Hey Cody Wilson can I call you Cody Wilson.......................hundreds of human beings are going

to watch what you say with the right winger Wallace on fix noise, and then your going to spew the same old tired shit about the 2nd amendment and that its a right and everything else, well zippy........................the preamble of the Constitution over rides that bull shit 2nd amendment......................I and millions of others have right to the pursuit of happiness, and living in the world that the 2nd amendment negates that principle you can go FUCK yourself and just fucking TWIRL.

You have no right to put my life in fear, you are not my fucking god, and you have no right to be my god and have the power to have you or anyone else dictate what could and may happen to me and my family, because you perceive that you have a right to create something that can hurt people, animals, that you are some fucking GOD..................GO FUCK YOURSELF, and I mean it literally..............................

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

26. The Preamble:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

You're thinking of the Declaration.

I infer that your opinion is that a conflict exists between the Declaration (...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...) and the 2A (A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.) Please elaborate on how these passages conflict.

[Kaleva]

23. When it's so easy for criminals to purchase guns now, why waste money on a 3D printer?

[SWBTATTReg]

25. And we're going to listen to this prick? He went around the courts and ignored judge's stay ...

to not distribute plans, which, if you want my opinion, go ahead and let them blow their fingers off. Serves them right on whomever has to build a gun and not buy one.

[oneshooter]

28. I build firearms with no serial numbers.

Rifles, pistols and a few shotguns.

[NickB79]

30. Wrong guy, I believe.

This guy obeyed the judge's orders.

It was a different group that continued distributing after the order to stop: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gun-rights-activists-post-plans-3d-firearms-after-judge-s-n896411

[Initech]

29. So the second amendment is more important than people's right to live? Fuck that.

[Older Than I Look]

31. Why isn't this guy considered a terrorist?

Seems his whole purpose is to get untraceable guns into the hands of people whom nearly everyone agrees shouldn't have them.

[truthisfreedom]

32. Look at post 28.

Real metal guns can be made without serial numbers from parts. This is nothing new. Additionally, nobody wants a gun that can blow up in your hands.