{"id":2688,"date":"2023-12-18T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2023-12-18T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:05:08","slug":"cohen-the-gun-debate-is-increasingly-academic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2688","title":{"rendered":"Cohen: The Gun Debate is Increasingly Academic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_543848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-543848\" style=\"width: 481px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-543848\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Spike-Cohen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Spike-Cohen.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Spike-Cohen-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Spike-Cohen-526x700.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Spike-Cohen-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Spike-Cohen-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Spike-Cohen-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Spike-Cohen-696x927.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Spike-Cohen-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Spike-Cohen-560x746.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-543848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America \u2013 <a title=\"Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=137752106\">Link<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The best part about the gun debate is that it\u2019s increasingly just academic. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Our victory is assured. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Put aside Bruen, or Heller, or McDonald, or any of the other gun rights victories in courts. Put aside the massive increases in gun ownership, in every demographic. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Right now, there are more guns than people in the US. Tomorrow, that gun\/people ratio will grow, as it has for years, and shows no sign of stopping. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Every day, 3D manufacturing technology continues to improve. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>You\u2019re already able to make a functioning gun at home, using free, publicly-available printing files. As that technology improves, we will reach the gun singularity, wherein you can make a gun at home of the same or better quality than you\u2019d get from a manufacturer. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Soon after, you\u2019ll be able to print better weapons at home than the meandering bureaucracy at the Pentagon can procure. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>We won\u2019t need to be terrorist groups or cartels to get machine guns from the CIA and ATF. We\u2019ll just make our own, and our stuff will be better than theirs. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>And thanks to Tor nodes, VPNs and other privacy tech, they won\u2019t even be able to know who\u2019s making them, or where they are.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Spike Cohen at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realspikecohen\/status\/1735981410056372237?s=10&amp;t=12nkhIF_L_nDspFAzwAYSg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X (Twitter)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/cohen-the-gun-debate-is-increasingly-academic\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America \u2013 CC BY-SA 4.0, Link The best part about the gun debate is that it\u2019s increasingly just academic. Our victory is assured. Put aside Bruen, or Heller, or McDonald, or any of the other gun rights victories in courts. Put aside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}