St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner recently discussed the "Wiki Weapon" project, organized by University of Texas law student Cody Wilson, to develop a design for a firearm that can be printed on a 3-D printer. This design would be published for free on the Internet, and made available to anyone with Internet access. The project has hit a speed bump for the moment, because the manufacturer of the high-end 3-D printer revoked the lease of the printer when it got wind of the nature of the project. Wilson has vowed to not let this stop him, and is exploring his options.
Wilson's group, "Defense Distributed," poses the key question on its website:
This project could very well change the way we think about gun control and consumption. How do governments behave if they must one day operate on the assumption that any and every citizen has near instant access to a firearm through the Internet? Let’s find out.
Video: The Wiki Weapon
As readers might imagine, this does not sit well with the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV). As this country's shrillest advocates of a "government monopoly on force," the idea of forcing change in governments' behavior through the open knowledge that every citizen can effectively arm himself/herself against oppression is blasphemy.
Company confiscates 3-D printer from Texas law student attempting to print guns for insurrectionist purposes ("How do governments behave if they must one day operate on the assumption that any and every citizen has near instant access to a firearm through the Internet? Let’s find out.").
As noted on the Armed and Safe gun rights advocacy blog, one particularly loathsome advocate of forcible citizen disarmament left a comment calling for Wilson's arrest, despite the utter lack of any evidence of a crime--and that comment was made by an attorney (although not, apparently, a very good one).
Thursday, CSGV's hysteria climbed another notch, as evidenced on another Facebook post, calling Wilson an "insurrectionist." In fact, Mr. Wilson has now been honored with a spot on CSGV's "Insurrectionism Timeline":
Wilson, the director of Defense Distributed, the online collective overseeing the "Wiki Weapon Project," had described its purpose on his website:"How do governments behave if they must one day operate on the assumption that any and every citizen has near instant access to a firearm through the Internet? Let's find out." In a video circulated by Defense Distributed, Wilson also sought to raise money for his project by stating, "Every dollar is a statement to these international kleptocrats that, 'This isn't in your control anymore. You want to announce treaties and new legal regimes announcing greater and greater eras and stratas of gun control, but listen it's over. You don't understand the world you're living in. We're bringing something else into being.'"
To those who believe governments should have absolute power over the people--to the extent of having the power to round them up into concentration camps without forcible resistance--Wilson's words and plans are nothing less than terrifying.
This becomes obvious in a comment left on CSGV's Facebook post:
Andrew Goddard: I think they should have let him print a "fully plastic" gun, he would no doubt have blown his "fully plastic" head off!
Andrew Goddard is the father of professional victim Colin "The Alchemist" Goddard, and generally tries to portray himself as passionately opposed to "gun violence"--and here he is wishing the decapitation by firearm of an American citizen. Interestingly, CSGV has tacitly endorsed Goddard's bloody wish by not criticizing the comment or deleting it (CSGV routinely deletes comments it doesn't like, including over half of them on this post--so much for "reasoned discourse"--but Goddard's is still there. In fact, four people gave that comment the "thumbs up" of approval.
CSGV and their fellow travelers are so committed to their sick agenda of a "government monopoly on force" that they wish death on those who would make that monopoly impossible. Such people are exactly the reason the "Wiki Weapon" project is so vital to not only Americans, but to the world.
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