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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I don't know. I think if you want to live with 18th century tort you need to complete that paradigm. I would not be averse to horse hair shirts and pillories for those kids who fail gun class either.
Or just stop selling handguns. Pretty easy to do that. Take your 40 billion dollar gun fund and buy ammo instead. Store it all where the gold used to be in fort knox. Close down a few Wal Marts in Texas. Flush out the real nutters and start prying cold dead hands.
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Its not that simple, you put that limit in and you have the gun lobby and believe it or not civil rights people screaming to the ceiling that you're abrogating the 2nd amendment and the supreme court will strike it down. Why do you think its so difficult to ban assault style weapons or close the gun show loop holes.
It would be interesting if you could ban the sale of ammunition and say to the people, look you can still have your guns but you can't have ammo.
But then the gangs and smugglers would move in and just make bank.
The challenge in charging for tougher gun control laws will always run into three major roadblocks
1) Hey dude its one of our fundamental rights
2) You have a gun lobby and groups like the NRA and the manufacturers with literally tons of money and legal talent that will make it a difficult fight
3) You could in a sense have a president that would enact gun control and threaten to use his veto, but he would never get the votes needed to make the veto stick.