You might be a First Amendment Extremist if you believe that... [View all]

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...the First Amendment, written more than two centuries ago, guarantees your God-Given Right to print out guns on a 3-D Printer.

Our Founding Fathers (Hallowed be thy names!) obviously could not have anticipated the technological advances that have occurred and which will continue to occur in computer printing technology.

Arguing that the writers of the First Amendment, in guaranteeing Freedom of the Press, somehow anticipated a printing press capable of making deadly weapons would be akin to arguing that the writers of the Second Amendment somehow anticipated modern semi-automatic weapons. And we all know what a steaming pile of bullshit that is. (I mean, come on now...how many of the Founding Fathers were Sci-Fi writers?)

The Printing Presses that the Founding Fathers knew about at the time were every bit as primitive as the muskets and powder that they carried.

So let's get real here, shall we?

We live in a different world.

And the First Amendment most certainly does not guarantee your right to print out an AR-15 with your 3-D Printer.