“A disgruntled citizen”
So, the assumption is that terrorists are disgruntled citizens?
Trans humanist tech bass turd punk can go straight to hell with his provocative dismiss of the US Constitution:
“So how can a nearly 230-year-old document keep up? Take a deep breath loyal constitutionalists—and repeat after me: It can’t. The US Constitution has to be gutted. We need to create a constitution that’s malleable and ready to adjust radically every few years to changing times and accelerating technology. And that document must throw nearly all historical precedent out the door.”
Eff him and his fellow Silicon Valley sociopath Dr. Frankensteins.
Same thing we do every night pinky..
No 3D printing needed, just the credit card and a modicum of mechanical aptitude. It’s all off-the-shelf.
I bought a cheap drone for myself last Christmas. It has a camera on it that transmits back to my Android phone. There is enough of a delay that it is not possible to fly using the camera. It also is fairly tricky to fly; it takes lots of practice. You could never fly more than one at a time. The range of the transmitter is a 1000 feet at most. The one I purchased can carry 3 or 4 ounces so you can put a higher resolution camera which is why I purchased it... to take pictures of our house when we put it up for sale.
The parts that could be printed are cheap to purchase so it wouldn’t really make any sense to do it. Buying all the other parts that would be necessary to make a working drone would cost far more than what I paid for mine. It could not carry even the lightest handgun that I know of and even if it could, trying to get it calibrated with the camera would be nearly impossible.
This article is more of a weird fantasy at this point.
The most dangerous weapon that can be possessed by a person of evil intent is intelligence.
We are lucky that most highly intelligent people are moral and sane.
The unibomber is an example of what a VERY intelligent man can do with just the common items anyone has at hand and almost nothing in the way of weaponry and cash.
A 3D printed drone army is a frightening possibility and would be a good plot for a movie... I suggest Christopher Walken as the evil genius directing the droid army of his own creation. James Woods would also be a great choice in the lead role...
I love the 3D tech posts 2DV! we need more of ‘em as a relief from the endless election posts.
This is the money phrase. It calls for a constitution that isn't a constitution, just a charade.
There is nothing wrong with the Second Amendment. It isn't outdated. It is just as valid today as the day it was ratified. Keeping and bearing arms is not the same thing as plotting and preparing for terrorist attacks on society. Something the author seems to equate.
I see this theme crop up every ten years or so; "Weapons technology has advanced so the Second Amendment is no longer viable." It's never true. What is true is that the Second Amendment is independent of technology. It was well thought out. And it distilled the essence of what was necessary for the individual to defend his freedom.
Does anyone ask these people why they trust the government so much more than the “disgruntled” person?
Yes, the Second Amendment, as drafted, IS ready for that. What is NOT ready is the judiciary who imposes restrictions on the ability of “every village and farm” to answer the alarm with the tools necessary to do the job.
Pull!
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other."
-- John Adams
This is an absurd fantasy, written by someone who apparently has no idea that there is a vast gulf between military drones and the quad-copter things that you can buy here in the US. Either that or the author knows it and seeks to blur the distinction and generate fear where it isn’t warranted.
‘Droppable Molotov cocktails and bottles of hydrochloric acid’? Please. That’s the kind of thing kids come up with.
EMP wave device would defeat the drones! Similar tech was used in the 50’s Sci Fi movie “Earth vs The Flying Saucers.”
Imagine this: A gaggle of disgruntled housewives goes to every Costco that they can find and they buy up cartons and cartons of ammonia cleansers and bleach along with lots and lots of spray bottles that they can fill with those liquids.
Then they boldly stride down the crowded sidewalks of a major city, spraying the ammonia and bleach into the faces of every passerby. Why, they’re literally equipped with and using chemical weapons.
The Constitution was not written to foresee such an eventuality. Therefore we must get rid of it and put a newer, better one in its place.
Yeah, right...
Arson bombs and Destructive Devices are not covered by the Second Amendment.
http://www.popsci.com/dronedefender-is-an-anti-drone-rifle-attachment
The 2nd Amendment provides the solution for the problem he poses already, if we repealed the stupid NFA and the GCA. Small submachine guns like the HK MP-5 can down drones efficiently and be carried on one’s person. And as for 3-D printing bombs, well, it is not like someone couldn’t bribe some Ivans with a crate of vodka, obtain a suitcase nuke, walk it straight out of Mexico into the US and boom. So much for security....
One thing tech geeks overlook- technology changes, people don’t, and the nature of government doesn’t. The Founders intended for the people to possess arms and in that way provide a protection from an over-mighty government manned by people Madison labeled as ‘ambitious’. The fact that the government is a threat in being to the governed has not changed, and the means to resist that has to be preserved, regardless of whether it is 1787, 1987, or 2187.