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Originally Posted by Daradon
More of a question than a comment. I get what you are saying in the last part for the (non?) gun control argument and it makes sense. But isn't that more of a short term argument? I would think that eventually, even if it takes 50-100 years, having a certain amount of gun control, would lessen the guns in legitimate stores, not to mention slowly change attitudes with new generations about gun ownership, both things contributing to an eventual decrease in black market guns. These things last a long time, but they don't last forever. They get seized or captured, lost, broken, etc.
Sometimes western society wants quick solutions that just aren't there, doesn't mean that changes can't be made in the meantime that will start the process and help down the road.
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Yeah as far as short term there is literally nothing that can be effectively done, and i guess that's what i was getting at as far as that goes. Long term? That would require an amendment to the constitution, and that's a whole different can o' worms.
Living there and making as many friends as i did, the whole gun ownership thing is ingrained into the collective quite deeply. These are very stand up, legitimate, law abiding citizens that see what they do as nothing more than a birth right (and constitutionally they are 100% correct).
We would go out shooting sometimes and i never knew what would be brought along til i got there, AR's, glocks, pistols and rifles all were part of the days events, and there no never any hesitation about any of them as everything we did was done with safety and responsibility at the forefront.
That's why it would be so hard to get people to change....because the vast vast majority of people with guns ARE responsible with them, and any major changes to their abilities to do so, would be seen as an afront to their ways of doing things correctly.
Most canadians dont understand that and see the issue as black and white....it just isnt that simple though.