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Originally Posted by Azure
Gun control won't do anything to take guns away from the criminals. And statistics have proven that over 90% of homicides in the US involve people with a criminal record.
I'm not sure why you are arguing about this. I understand what you mean when you say less guns = less gun crime. Technically it is true, but you can't apply that in the real world.
Hell, even gun buy-back programs don't work compared to community outreach and social programs that specifically target kids prone to getting involved in gangs. And by buy-back programs were ESPECIALLY designed to try and reduce the amount of guns amongst the population.
I still support the buy-back idea, but I'm not naive enough to believe that it will actually make a serious difference in reducing gun crime.
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In the end it will, virtually all guns in the US come from legal sales therfore if you choke off that as a supply black market guns would eventually become difficult to come by and very expensive, as they are in the UK, criminals in the UK have to resort to renting guns as they are so hard to come by, this obviuosly limits their access to youth gangs or other morons and restricts gun use pretty much to 'serious' criminals, this alone would drop your gun crime rate.
It would take a few years to decades but eventually if the US wanted to it could clean most of its guns out of its cities, if they had any sense they would just institute a blanket ban on all handguns and automatic weapons, this would still allow all legal uses of guns, hunting, home protection but massively reduce the effectivness of firearms for most criminals due to the long guns limitations of use.