Every time someone writes an article about gun control, you can rewrite it to be an attack on encryption. If you&#x27;re going to be holding &quot;amoral objects&quot; responsible, why not encryption?<p>&gt; Do you know how a properly functioning society would react to an event like &lt;The Silk Road &#x2F; misc darkweb crime&gt;?  [...] Within months, the country&#x27;s governing party led a bipartisan effort to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again (by banning TOR).<p>&gt; The &lt;technology&gt; used in &lt;misc crime ring&gt; that resulted in all those &lt;abused children&gt; were legally &lt;downloaded&gt;<p>&gt; The logic is outrageous: &quot;&lt;Children&gt; got &lt;abused&gt;. So we need a backdoor into your phone.&quot;<p>And you could go on and on. The First and Second Amendments are related, now more than ever.<p>One last point. The author cites gun control as the solution to mass shootings, but there&#x27;s a bit of a hole in his logic. France&#x27;s gun control laws did nothing to prevent the Bataclan shooting from happening. All it did was make a room full of people that couldn&#x27;t defend themselves.