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Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by BobaFloutist on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:26PM (#46877534)
Right, because most people recognize that the US has become sufficiently polarized and radicalized that "If enough people are mad at you, a complete stranger might shoot you" is not a theory of change we want to encourage. Yes, even for causes we agree with, most adults in the room understand that "people being mad at you" is pretty independent of how righteous your cause is, and even how civil and thoughtful you are in pursuing it.
Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by _heimdall on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:40PM (#46879705)
Are you claiming that the most likely proximal cause for his murder was the legal ability to print a gun rather than any concerns or grievances the shooter may have had related to the healthcare industry or United Healthcare specifically?
Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by BobaFloutist on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:13PM (#46880555)
Yes, I think access to firearms affects the murder rate.
Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by _heimdall on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:10AM (#46882087)
That wasn't the topic though. Are you saying the United Health CEO's murder was motivated primarily by access to printing guns on a 3d printer?
Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by BobaFloutist on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:23AM (#46886939)
I didn't say anything about motivation, I'm explaining why people didn't try addressing the assassin's complaints as a way to avoid a future repeat.
Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by 9875325996435 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:15PM (#46888518)
Won't someone think of the grievances that poor far-left terrorist had this vermin murdered Brian Thompson :'(
Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by cucumber3732842 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @09:15AM (#46886052)
>because most people recognize that the US has become sufficiently polarized and radicalized that "If enough people are mad at you, a complete stranger might shoot you" is not a theory of change we want to encourage.

God forbid individuals and organizations not choose paths of action that "low level piss off" millions of people such that their chance of being at the business end of some outlier who will actually do violence upon them is non-trivial.

It's not hard to not be "the thing" in any given crazy's life they choose to go out with a bang over, especially if you're not something they deal with every day. If that means that the default amount of screwage your organization applies needs to be dialed back, or that you must clean house a little better or more often then cry me a river.

>most adults in the room understand that "people being mad at you" is pretty independent of how righteous your cause is

Except it's not. The "budget" you have to wrong people and cause despair before people would be apathetic to violence done upon you is pretty directly coupled to the amount of good you do to offset your harm.

Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by BobaFloutist on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:30AM (#46887022)
>It's not hard to not be "the thing" in any given crazy's life they choose to go out with a bang over

> The "budget" you have to wrong people and cause despair before people would be apathetic to violence done upon you is pretty directly coupled to the amount of good you do to offset your harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Linco...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kenne...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon

Agree to disagree. I'm not willing to trust the judgement of those most willing to commit gun violence as to whom deserves gun violence.