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Old 04-04-2009, 11:21 PM   #71
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I'm not here to preach or lecture.

But banning guns will only create a bigger underground market for illegal fire arms. Its the same argument that people believe that legalizing drugs will end drug crimes. The one factor that people leave out of these ideals is profit.

If you ban guns, the criminals will increase their profits by buying armalite knockoffs from Singapore, or surplus AK-74's from Russia, or hand guns from the states or uzi's from Israel. And they'll sell these illegal and untrackable weapons to every gang member and petty criminal that they can get their hands on. And then these sweethearts who are trying to carve out their own little drug and criminal empires for profit will shut their eye's and squeeze the triggers and kill their targets and some 16 year old girl who got caught in the cross fire or some nice old lady who happened to be walking her dog.

If someone wants a gun ban or no, they'll find a way to get them.

There's money to be made by selling illegal weapons, and if you throw up a ban, your going to have no way of tracking these weapons because they won't be going through a fire arms registry.

The only way that your going to reduce gun crime is if you take the people involved in either selling or smuggling or using these guns for crimes out of society for the protection of society.

The answer isn't to create a untrackable gun market.

At least with the semi legality of guns, you have a percentage of these weapons that are trackable and you can keep track of the owners, and you can prevent some of the dumber criminals from buying them without a back ground check.

But a ban will never work because you'll never get rid of the desire for firearms especially in a day and time when gang activity and violent crime seems to be ramping up.
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