It’s a little odd that while students in Georgia were demanding that state lawmakers pass a measure, ostensibly as a trial for a mass shooting is set to start, students three-quarters of the way across the country are doing something similar.
This time, they’re in Colorado, and while Georgia students demanded something be made illegal that is already illegal, the Colorado bunch are demanding something even dumber.
They want the state to restrict 3D-printed guns.
Over 100 high school students rallied at the Colorado Capitol in Denver on Wednesday to urge lawmakers to pass a bill that would ban most production of 3D-printed guns in the state.
“Students should be worried about finals, sports, music and friendships — not whether they’ll make it home from school safely,” said Iris Osmulski, a senior at East High School in Denver. “Gun violence is not inevitable. It’s preventable.”
During its annual advocacy day at the Capitol, members of Students Demand Action meet with lawmakers to share their experiences with gun violence and encourage them to pass policies to reduce firearm deaths and injuries. This year, students were focused on House Bill 26-1144.
That bill would limit the production in Colorado of 3D-printed firearms and components like unfinished frames, large-capacity magazines and rapid-fire devices, strengthening Colorado’s existing ban on unserialized and untraceable ghost guns. The number of 3D-printed guns recovered at crime scenes has increased in recent years, according to a report from the gun control advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety. In 2020, there were nine such recovered guns in Denver. By 2024, that number jumped to 64.
The bill would also ban the possession of the instructions or digital code needed to print a firearm or firearm part, if the person who has the code intends to use it illegally. There is an exception for federally licensed firearm manufacturers.
OH NO! 64 WHOLE GUNS IN A STATE WITH A POPULATION OF ALMOST SIX MILLION AND 476 VIOLENT CRIMES PER 100,000 PEOPLE IN 2024!!!!
IT’S THE APOCALYPSE!
Further, there’s zero evidence that those so-called ghost guns were in the hands of people who wouldn’t have had a gun via some other means. In other words, there’s nothing showing that 3D printers arm people who had no other way to get a gun.
Let’s also not forget that Colorado already banned so-called ghost guns. We see how well that worked, now don’t we? A 600 percent (I don’t feel like doing the math right now) or so jump in the total number of such guns despite the law. That worked out swimmingly.
However, this bill crosses a few more lines than the previous ban. This one crosses the boundaries of the Second Amendment and into infringing on the First.
See, the bill in question also bans the distribution of the files for making such weapons. The courts have long recognized computer code as a form of protected speech. Like it or not, the files are free speech, and banning them, even the distribution of them, is akin to banning the discussion of political opinions the state finds objectionable.
That’s a no-no.
But then again, when did anti-gunners actually care about anyone’s rights? If they’ll infringe on the Second Amendment, they’ll infringe on any of them.
And, of course, the media that relies on the First Amendment for its very existence doesn’t seem to have an issue with their own protections being eroded because guns are bad.
Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment.
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