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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
So we could estimate around $150 billion on a buy back program? Is that fair? I cannot comprehend how different the political climate would have to be in the US to ever see congress passing something like that, or anything even close to that. 20 dead children didn't register. Where do you go from there?
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Australia's buy back program was around 500 million for just over 600k guns so I think that's fair. Conservative maybe but it's really hard to say.
The next issue is compliance. Say this does happen, which financially I just can't see but regardless, if it does happen I imagine there will be more than a few people who will not comply. A right for Americans has been taken away, the value of your property is gone and now you and everyone else has to pay for that property. Again. Can't see it being overly popular.
And again if your in the business of crime, there's no way those guns get turned in. And those firearms, in the hands of criminals who only own them to further their criminal interests, are the ones that law enforcement/legislation needs to target.
If the financial capital could be raised to try and treat those problems as the diseases they are, and shift focus away from the symptoms, then I believe a positive change in gun crime and society in general can be made without rescinding rights and imposing ineffectual laws.