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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Sure, I agree. But there are can be more than one problem at a time, and more than one contributor to a problem. If you'll look, I wasn't saying there wasn't a problem with US gun laws. There pretty obviously is. I take issue with the plainly expressed notion that there's no moral difference between a 16 year old dying in a drug related shootout and a six year old finding her dad's gun in a dresser drawer and blowing her own head off.
Let's not get carried away in our zeal for justice and righteous anger and lose sight of reality. The facts, without any "packaging" or dressing up to make them look worse than they are, are adequately terrible to demand a solution. An honest and frank assessment of them is the best path to solving what is, in the case of the USA, an incredibly difficult problem. It would be even if Congress outlawed all gun sales tomorrow, full stop and with no exceptions.
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I think that we're talking the impossible solution here. Outlawing guns won't do much, I don't know much about the US, but in terms of a cohesive fire arms registry where the police would be able to "Encourage" people to give up their weapon if there was a ban would be impossible.
On top of that would there be a grandfathering of fire arms if Guns were made illegal. Well hell man, if you already have a gun there's not much we can do.
On top of it, I doubt that a outlawing of guns would unfortunately never get passed the supreme court, even if you put the most liberal judges ever in the Supreme Court, they're not going to take out the 2nd Ammendment, they might alter it, but taking away gun rights would be equivalent to stepping on the third rail in a new york subway tunnel.
As well, you outlaw gun sales that you can control. But until the American's gain control over their borders the Chinese for example sell 42% of the rifles sold in the States or something like that. That;s not counting shipping containers that just show up and fuel the underground gun sales, same with the Philippines and Eastern Block countries.
Its a sadly unsolvable problem unless there's a will to solve the problems, and American's no matter what the cost in lives and in crime statistics will never give up their right to access firearms.