๐Ÿ˜‚ That is what Ukraine is doing. There's an insane amount of 3d printing for defense going on with hundreds of groups building new drone and other weapons designs every week. Literally: a lot of this stuff is iterated on weekly or biweekly basis, with new designs constantly shipped out. What people don't do is 3d print guns themselves: that's a stupid use of the technology as lots of excellent guns are available on the mass market. Ukraine is not short on guns. If you have money and want to build weapons to kill Russians, Ukraine is the place to do it. The issue is not property rights. No-one is in a position to actually defend themselves against an invading army. That's just not how war at this scale works. Defense by itself simply doesn't work: you can't stop Russia from taking your land by holding your ground. No weapon strong enough exists. You stop Russia from taking your land by working with others to counterattack and respond dynamically. That only works at big scale. Libertarian ideas around war are simply stupid. War does not work that way.

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Dude, you realize that in 2022 right after the invasion started Ukraine freely gave assault rifles and ammo to every man and woman who wanted them. A large part of why the initial invasion attempt failed is because of a quick decentralized defense. But that only goes so far. Ukraine is up against an enemy that is perfectly able to mass huge amounts of force in a single location to break through. Ukraine needs to be able to respond to that. And that's not possible without wider scale coordination. Re: "complete fucking genocide", that's exactly what Russia has done in Ukraine. In Bucha civilians were simply mass murdered by the hundreds. Russia has no qualms responding to resistance by simply flattening cities with artillery and airpower. Hell, just the other day Russia used multiple cruise missiles to flatten an apartment building, killing 30 people. Speaking of, how exactly are "3d printed guns" going to stop cruise missiles? 3d printed drones actually do stop shahed drones. But again, that's not some decentralized effort. A big part of making that work is centralized organization: you can't put AA assets everywhere. You need top down organization to figure out how to move them dynamically to be in the best place to intercept each attack.
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