<div dir="ltr">Being afraid of tools that can rip your fingers off isn't insane, it's healthy. You are insane to claim otherwise.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Mark Atwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@mark.atwood.name" target="_blank">me@mark.atwood.name</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Pete Prodoehl <<a href="mailto:raster@gmail.com">raster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Here's a quick question for US-based hacker/makerspaces... Do you have a firearms ban at your space, and if so, what are some of the reasons behind the decision?<br>
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</div>We don't have a rule at our space. Our space is a member-oriented<br>
space, no "general public" except as guests of members or as visitors<br>
to specific private events.<br>
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If such a rule was proposed, I would argue strongly against it. If<br>
someone is a legal owner/carrier of a firearm, if we can't trust them<br>
with their gun, we can't trust them with all the tools *either*.<br>
<br>
More generally, if someone in a makerspace is "afraid" of guns, that's<br>
insane. They should be afraid of all the other tools too.<br>
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