The Fault Lies with the Criminal, Not the Tool.

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The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has renewed the debate over “ghost guns,” according to some news reports. More accurately, the usual control freaks are using the killing as a convenient hook on which to hang their authoritarian arguments. While there’s plenty to find horrifying in this crime, that alleged murderer Luigi Mangione made his weapon using a 3D printer isn’t one of them, no matter that a few people see in the act an opportunity to advance restrictive legislation.

People make their own guns because they want them and somebody in power seeks to prevent them from possessing weapons. The result has inevitably been people who arm themselves in defiance of the law, using whatever tools and materials are available.

The murder of Brian Thompson would have been no less horrible if the weapon was a legally purchased firearm, a knife, an incendiary device, a club, or any other of the many means of destruction humans have historically wielded against one another. The fault lies with the criminal, not the tool.

And people, being clever and defiant towards authority, will always gain access to forbidden objects that they want, including weapons. They’ll do so even if they have to manufacture them at home.

J.D. Tuccille
December 13, 2024
Brian Thompson’s murder is being used to peddle ‘ghost gun’ bans

From a legal standpoint, people have long been making their own guns without restrictions. They did this long before and after the 2nd Amendment was written. That, among other things, makes it unconstitutional to impose a prohibition on them now.

From a practical standpoint, passing a law against private manufacture only creates a victimless crime and morally innocent “criminals”. It does nothing to prevent the person with evil intentions from committing their already prohibited evil acts. If they are willing to violate laws prohibiting violent crimes, the law fails to deter them. It only inhibits those who use homemade guns for lawful purposes. It does not deter genuine criminals.

Hence, we know those who advocate restrictions of homemade guns do so with the intent of harming innocent people.

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5 thoughts on “The Fault Lies with the Criminal, Not the Tool.

  1. Send the would-be banners to prison for a few years, for trying to restrict human rights.

    Send all the insurance executives & CEOs to life in prison for some ungodly number of instances of fraud & manslaughter.

    Send Luigi (or whoever is guilty person) to prison for 25 to life for murder, but put him in a nice cell. Maybe we can send him over to Norwegian prison, in exchange for Anders Breivik.

    • Blame the victim much. Just for the record, insurance companies don’t set coverage policy, plan sponsors do. For most Americans that would be employers or CMS.

      • Put them in prison too. And the government. And the pharmaceutical companies. Plenty of diversity, inclusion, & equity to go around.

  2. Well, I’m glad the communists have set the precedent for us. That being the way to stop crime is by banning the tools used to commit crime.
    And the largest criminals in history up to today are 100% undisputably government officials. And the tool they use is government, and faux authority.
    We now have an argument the communist can easily understand. Wither they agree or not. The facts are undisputable.
    Government needs to end. Or be very controlled. They rob, rape, and steal more in a day than most of humanity has in the last century.
    Oh wait, isn’t that what our forefathers told us we should do, gave us the power to do. Said it was our duty to do?
    No one cares about “ghost guns”. Just ask any communist what he would think if the “eyebrowed antifa” would have used one to kill Trump?

  3. The people so horrified over WHAT Mangione used aren’t concerned with what he did….but only with what he used to do it with. If Thompson had been clubbed to death with a baby seal they wouldn’t have given it a second thought….

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