Ross: Have we already lost the fight against gun violence? – MyNorthwest.com

Theres a big push to fight gun violence. But if the idea is to stop the violence by going after guns, I think the fight is already lost.

Extraordinary rise in gun violence in King County in 2021

CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues reported this week that anybody with a 3D printer and easily-available software can make their own gun in as little as 45 minutes.

You can also print a gun part called a receiver, and use it to assemble a gun with no serial number. That makes it untraceable, and therefore very popular with bad guys. Its whats called a ghost gun.

FiveThirtyEight reported that, in 2019, police in Philadelphia recovered 95 ghost guns. By 2020, it was 250. Last year, the numbers were on track to double again, and thats just one city.

It is legal to make your own guns the good guys do it all the time. Some of them are highly-skilled gunsmiths. But pretty soon, you wont have to be highly-skilled.

The ATF is clearly worried, and theyre looking for ways to regulate ghost guns. But how?

Once everybody can make their own weapons and that day is coming even if the government did want to grab your guns, it would be physically impossible. And in a world where anybody can make a new one in under an hour, it wouldnt be worth the trouble anyway.

The whole Second Amendment debate is over. The Second Amendment won!

But Dave, you might say, we could regulate gunpowder! Yeah, good luck with that.

Bad guys will always get loaded weapons. Which means all thats left is universal anger management training.

And we thought getting everybody vaccinated was tough.

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