Over the years, a lot of industries have been seriously disrupted by advances in technology. This provides a learning opportunity for people witnessing these events.
Meet California State Senator Leland Yee, who is evidently too stupid to learn from such events, particularly what the music industry has gone through.
Listen, you idiot, fighting a far-reaching, blanket fight against new technology is doomed to fail. Is California really so well-off that you have nothing better to do? If you insist on wasting government resources, is there nothing else to waste them on? Why don’t you go water a state park instead? You would do a lot less damage.
The music industry has tried bans on technology that they don’t like. It hasn’t worked. Sure, they catch a few people, but in the process they do a lot of damage to innocent people, and they still can’t stop the technology. What makes you think that you’ll do any better?
I think that power has gone to your head to such an extent that you should be classified as being brain-damaged. Why else would you try something that has absolutely no chance of working? If you want to have any control whatsoever over a new technology like this, about the only realistic chance is to lightly regulate it–there’s some people, probably a lot of people, who would pay a few dollars and fill out a very short form to register their 3-D printed gun, rather than break the law.
But there are a great many people indeed who will simply print out a gun and hide it, if 3-D guns are flat-out banned. And unless they talk about it to the wrong people, how are you going to catch them?
In short, Senator Leland Yee, you are stupid, you are despicable, and as far as I can tell, you have no reason whatsoever for holding the office that you do. You seem to have no redeeming features whatsoever. You ought to be publicly whipped for criminally-high levels of stupidity.