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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I might agree, but I would argue that without changing the culture the biggest problem with a blanket gun control (which I've stated that I'm in favor of) would actually drive the gun market underground. Gun control wouldn't stop the shipments of AK-47's and Uzi knockoffs from the Philippines.
You would expand the illegal gun market and not contract it with gun control.
Unless the U.S. works to break the gun culture, improve border security and create harsh sentences for gun related violent crime your not going to accomplish what you want to.
Right now one of the biggest problems are the gun shows and buying unregistered guns there. Imagine a lot more of these gun markets happening in a black market environment.
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You're right, but you have to start somewhere. The most logical place to start is the laws. The culture will adapt slowly after they are in place.(Yes it will take other things as well) It'll take a while, a long while, but that's how democracies work. You have to put the rules in place first. Slowly new generations will know nothing but the new rules and following them won't be hard. The culture of guns will be alien to them.