The problem is that you have to give the state power in order to "help" people, those that hold this power eventually become corrupt, and then this power is used or sold to benefit the individuals who hold the power ... This means that the more socialist a nation becomes the more it will turn into a communist or corporatist state.

Corporatism, not capitalism, was the cause of the economic crisis; adding more power to a government that is already a corporatist state will only result in large corporations having more power at the expense of individuals.

make the cartrige more expensive then the printer??

What a great way to encourage the next wave of manufacturing (micro manufacturing) in your economy ... Punish the 99.9% of legitimate uses of a technology with punitive taxes that will (likely) make their work not cost effective to prevent the 0.01% illegitimate uses. With thinking like this it is no wonder that the US economy hasn't produced a reasonable number of good jobs in decades.

Edit: I just realized you may have ment the bullet rather than the material cartridge of the printer ... but anyone who knows anything about guns knows that it is (already) pretty easy to make a bullet.

America's government is supposedly minimal and they, like the greed and power of money over the last 60 years has corrupted them, since both parties are the same anyway. While, in Europe that never happened, as the parties were distinquishable . The UK had several socialist Labour government and didn't corrupt, forming the NHS didn't corrupt us, nor did the other stuff Clement Atlee did. Governments gain power from the time they serve, not anything to do with socialism. we'll see how France ends up in 2017, when they hold a new election, we'll see if socialism helped sort out there problems. Socialism is about EQUALITY above anything, the government may be bigger, but it's to regulate not control

Just like how the copy machine was supposed to be the end of paper currency. You have manufacturers program in an inability to make firearms or firearm components into these 3D printers.

I assume, then, that you support the War on Drugs, which seeks the same kind of advantages towards banning a particular product, right?

That's not really going to work.

Printers can't make good counterfit money because of the built in things in money.  Not the printers used to make them.

Trying to program 3D printers to not print firearms seems.

A) Impossibe, how would that even work?  It's not like there are things intrinisic to guns that can be recognized.

B) Last about as long as the Iphone firmware lasted.

Certain drugs, yes. Crack and Heroin, for two, are quite dangerous. I just don't see the need to list certain ones as Schedule I.

Funny, when the UK banned handguns, murder rates didn't go down:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1440764.stm - Handgun crime up, despite ban.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223193/Culture-violence-Gun-crime-goes-89-decade.html - Gun crime up 89% over a decade.

It is true that crime has decreased a little over the past couple of years... you'd be twisting it a bit to suggest this had anything to do with the ban. Especially when many of the years before the decrease (that is, over the next 10 years after the ban) crime levels were at the highest levels ever recorded.

Also, just look at the USA. Look at the states and cities which have fantastic gun rights, and compare them to those that have gun bans.

People can still kill people without guns.

And many, many people would be mad if guns were banned. That means the Government has more control over them, that they can't "protect" themselves.