Response to Esquire Piece on Plastic Firearms...

RE: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/plastic-gun-ban?click=feed#comments

It is not my intention to debate the utility or ethics of plastic firearms but merely to point out a singular error of your piece. In your gloating, condescendingly glib and misinformed Dec 9th article re: Plastic firearms you repeatedly say that persons will not be able to own or print plastic firearms, however you fail to state how such a prohibition is to be effected. 

Your article would have been more accurate had it stated that persons subject to US jurisprudence can not legally possess or manufacture said implements. You seem to be operating under the delusion that the passage of law changes the physical nature of our reality whereby undesirable potentialities are no longer able to be actualized? 

The arrogance of your tone belies an important point frequently omitted from this discussion to wit: what prevents any persons wishing to break any laws from doing so?  While the misinformed and frequently hysterical liberal intelligentsia celebrates the steady erosion of fundamental liberties the fact of the matter remains: technology is advancing beyond the policing power of the state. You do your readers a disservice by framing the issue 'as-if' certain technologies are rendered inert or irrelevant by and through the passage of laws. 

There is, as yet, no means of effective state intervention to prevent all manner of nefarious and illegal activity. You should write a follow-up piece stating that clandestine meth labs will no longer exist as they too are illegal. No doubt you and your readership will rejoice in the fait-accompli of such inane and ultimately worthless pronouncements. 

Sincerely,

Benjamin Denio

~Defense Distributed